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Bilbo Lifeguard Dog – A wonderful dog that everyone loved

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Bilbo Lifeguard Dog

Tributes have been paid from around the world to a famous Cornish “lifesaving” dog who has died. Bilbo, a 14-stone (89kg) Newfoundland, patrolled the beach at Sennen with his lifeguard owner Steve Jamieson. … In 2009 Bilbo won “Dog of the Day” on the working dogs day at Crufts.

Bilbo Lifeguard Dog

Bilbo in Action

Bilbo Lifeguard dog – The History

Bilbo The Life-saving Newfoundland was Britain’s first fully trained canine lifeguard! and works at Sennen Cove in Cornwall.

There ws an uproar when Bilbo was banned from the beach on Health and safety grounds causing thousands to sign petitions demanding everyone from Gordon Brown to the Queen should intervene and persuade officials to reclassify the six-year Bilbo in the same manner as a Guide dog as a legitimate working animal and permit him back in the beach alongside his lifeguard owner.

Bilbo was finally given permission to return on the 28th of March 2009.

His owner Steve Jamieson, who at 57 is Britain’s longest-serving lifeguard and area supervisor for the RNLI, responsible for beach safety on the western tip of Cornwall, said he was delighted at the decision.

“The people not just in Cornwall but the whole of the UK have taken Bilbo to their hearts and, in the end, something had to be done about it. The council and the RNLI have done a stalwart job while Bilbo is ecstatic that he will be able to get back on the beach,” he said.

Bilbo was awarded Pet Hero of the year in a presentation by Michaela Strachan

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Bilbo now spends much of his time promoting Beach Safety and campaigning on the importance of swimming between the flags on lifeguarded beaches.

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