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LE FALCO
Falco (Falco Von Pentavita), Law Enforcement Dual Purpose Dog. Ventura Police Dept, Ventura, CA DOB 20AUG2013 GSD Falco began his career after being imported to the US in January of 2016. He and his handler graduated from the Inglis Police Dog Academy 18FEB2016. I had found a great article online about Falco, his handler, and how he was purchased through donations for the community. Falco had started a great career, until a year and a half later he began to have seizures. Once Falco was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy he was retired from service and adopted to someone in the community. I received a message from our friends at Woof Project in Dec of 2021. Ventura County Animal Services had a GSD that had been surrendered for euthanasia in October for uncontrolled seizures. The owner at the time did not have Falco on any medications other than CBD oil, which was not working. After getting more information, they found out that Falco had served the community. The shelter Veterinarian fell in love with him and worked very hard to find the right combinations of medication that got Falco's seizures under control by December. Now the hard part would be finding the right home that would take on an overweight German Shepherd with seizures and history of being a police dog and animal aggressive. They had hoped Woof Project may have an option to get him out of the shelter. On Christmas Day, I left for the 23-hour drive to bail out Falco from the shelter and bring him home. I was very happy that we made the cross-country trip home with no seizures, and we got him immediately established with our vet. Falco has adjusted great to life on the farm here, and we are happy to say he has only had 2 incidents of cluster seizures since last December (as of August 2022). We have since done as MRI to make sure there was no brain tumor, and his labs came out great. |