COPS Monitoring, a leading professional alarm monitoring service provider, has welcomed its first K9 assistant to its workforce, Kovu, a 4-year-old German shepherd.
Throughout history from ancient Rome to Europe and China, there has been evidence of canines aiding humans. However, service dogs were not legally recognized by the United States until the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990. Today, there are roughly a half a million service dogs in the United States alone.