by Tena Starr
NEWPORT CENTER — Fred is about six feet tall with a rubbery face and wobbly legs. He’s not much of a dresser, and he has a small vial of placenta in one of his pockets.
Yes, placenta. That was last week. On another day he might have a bit of skull, a piece of intestine, or blood hidden away in his clothing.
These days Fred is doubling as an unlikely Santa peering out the window of Jim Hutchinson’s and Bonnie Ricker’s Newport Center home. But his day job is being a K9 training aid. He’s a blow-up mannequin used to train dogs to find cadavers or missing people.
George, a six-year-old red fox Labrador, bred in Glover, is one of those dogs.
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