JENNIFER JACKSON'S PORT TOWNSEND NEIGHBOR COLUMN: Disease doesn't slow dog down

GIVEN THE “READY, search” command, Bosun was off like a shot down the steep hill. Eschewing the concrete steps, he went straight down the grassy slope to the building, wheeled around once, then indicated to his handler the location of the scent: in the ground under a rock. His time: 20.03 seconds. “The judges were floored,” said Karla Kimmey, a Sequim dog trainer. Bosun was not in training for the K-9 police corps, but a family pet who was competing in Nose Works, a new sport for

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