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Article: DREDGING CREW ADOPTS ABANDONED DOG THE WORKERS CALL THE GERMAN SHEPHERD RUDEE, AFTER THE INLET THEY DREDGE YEAR ROUND.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 3, 1996
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Byline: GREG BURT, STAFF WRITER
Firemen have their Dalmatians. Rescue workers their Saint Bernards. Dredging shops now have their German shepherds - at least the Virginia Beach shop on Bells Road does.
Adopted by the shop after apparently being abandoned, a lean tan and brown female shepherd now spends her days keeping her owners abreast of any visitor or cat venturing onto the property. No one person owns her, yet she isn't lacking in love or attention.
``She lies down like she has always lived here,'' said Sidney Ray Midgett, a 26-year dredging veteran. As he spoke, the dog the crew calls Rudee - after the inlet they dredge year round - was ...