A Madison County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office K-9 died Friday afternoon after working in mid 90s-degree heat.
K-9 Archer, a 6-year-old German shepherd, died at the University of Florida Small Animal Hospital in Gainesville after suffering a “heat episode,” the sheriff’s office said.
Sheriff David Harper shared news about the dog’s illness a day earlier on Facebook. In a video shared online, Harper asked community members to pray for Archer and said Archer was helping to find a felon that ran from deputies into a wooded area when he suffered the heat injury.
He had been with his handler, Deputy Marcus Roell, for the past two years.