{"id":73187,"date":"2025-11-28T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73187\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:04:22","slug":"meet-savannah-fresno-polices-first-ever-therapy-dog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73187\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Savannah, Fresno Police&#8217;s first-ever therapy dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city of Fresno is celebrating the arrival of a new dog but she&#8217;s not just any dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meet Savannah, she&#8217;s a rescue and soon she will be the first ever therapy canine for the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Savannah is undergoing specialized training to bring comfort, calm and a special connection to officers in ways that words sometimes can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police chief Mindy Casto says that while Savannah&#8217;s home will be at the department, the dog can really bring a smile to anyone in need of a little encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;She is &#8216;we&#8217; though. We serve the community, she serves us. She will also be serving the community in that regard,&#8221; Casto says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traditionally, law enforcement agencies purchase therapy dogs from vendors, but the Fresno Police Department said with all the abandoned pets throughout the Valley they knew Savannah would be a perfect fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Fresno is celebrating the arrival of a new dog but she&#8217;s not just any dog.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2899,112,114,113,1057,13116,20263,42890],"class_list":["post-73187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-dog","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police-department","tag-mindy-casto","tag-savannah","tag-therapy-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}