For Eight Years, Leonidas Rode Beside the Same Deputy. Then One Failed Alarm Ended Their Final Shift

For eight years, Leonidas had a place beside Deputy Daniel Coppola. Not in the back seat as a pet. Not at home waiting for the workday to end. Beside him. Leonidas was a German Shepherd serving with the Schenectady County Sheriff’s Office in New York, and for nearly a decade his life followed the rhythm […]