151 the last known living 911 searchandrescue dog was recently honored with a weekend full of surprises in new york city where she also celebrated her 16th birthday bretagne the golden retriever and her handler denise corliss are a part of texas task force 1 one of the fema national urban searchandrescue programs that responded to ground zero to help find survivors and later to help recover the lost bodies of victims responding to the world trade center was our first deployment corliss told barkpost which sponsored their trip and commemoration in the city we were there to try and find survivors when our task force arrived in ground zero i just couldnt believe the magnitude and then i look down to her and she seemed stoked and ready to work towards the end of our mission it changed from a search mission to a recovery mission i was just so grateful to have a canine partner that helped me get through it retrieved moving portraits of 911 search dogs remembering 911 security emergency service members reflect using hashtag neverforget how baseball helped new york heal post 911 corrliss and bretagne arrived in new york city last friday and they spent the entire weekend being honored and thanked with surprises and gifts from various companies and organizations in the city they were treated to a special suite at 1 hotel central park where bretagne got a luxury doggie bed dozens of toys and even room service dining bretagne the last known living 911 searchandrescue dog was honored for her service and given a 16th birthday celebration on sept 4 2015 barkpost they got to ride in a vintage yellow cab and when they were taken to times square a huge billboard with bretagnes photo lit up nyc welcomes you and your mom it read thank you for both your services bretagne the last known living 911 searchandrescue dog was honored for her service and given a 16th birthday celebration on sept 4 2015 barkpost the 16yearold golden retriever then got a little playtime at the hudson river park where she was presented the doggie equivalent of the key to the city a bone to the city made by tiffany and co along the way dozens of new yorkers stopped to pet bretagne and thank her for her service bretagne the last known living 911 searchandrescue dog was honored for her service and given a 16th birthday celebration on sept 4 2015 barkpost at the end she was treated to an epic sweet 16 party where she received hundreds of gifts and even got her own dogfriendly birthday cake perhaps most special of the gifts was a cobblestone dedicated to bretagne at the 911 memorial plaza by the national september 11 memorial museum bretagne the last known living 911 searchandrescue dog was honored for her service and given a 16th birthday celebration on sept 4 2015 barkpost though bretagne is now retired she continues to volunteer at school programs