Meet the real-life paw patrol at a W.Va. airport: Hercules and Ned

Meet the real-life paw patrol at a W.Va. airport: Hercules and Ned Ned, left, and Hercules take a break from work at the West Virginia International Yeager Airport, where they patrol and clear wildlife on the airport runways. (Rich-Joseph Facun for The Washington Post)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The wildlife patrol at West Virginia International Yeager Airport (CRW) has gone to the dogs — specifically, to border collies Hercules and Ned.

Five days a week, and sometimes weekends, the herding dogs punch the clock and go to work clearing birds and woodland creatures from the mountaintop airfield at CRW. Their job as “wildlife canines” is critical to protecting planes and passengers from potentially dangerous wildlife strikes.


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