09/11/2026
Check out this story on Pip, our best co worker 🐶❤️
Pip the dog starts every morning that he's on the job by pawing at Rick McElhaney's office door.
"If somebody doesn't know any better, they think, 'Oh, he's looking forward to seeing Rick,'" said McElhaney, the deputy director of operations for Metro 911, the dispatch office for Kanawha County. "No, he's looking for me to open my door so he can go in my office and wait by the window for the people that he likes more than me. Then he runs to the door and greets them."
Pip, a certified "super-mutt," is not McElhaney's dog, nor is he anyone else's dog in the Ned Chilton 911 Center in Charleston. Pip is the public safety mascot of Metro 911 — its first ever canine employee.
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