Tributes have been paid to Britain’s longest-serving mountain dog who has died at the age of 16.
Skye the Border Collie served with the Lake District Mountain Rescue Searchdogs in northern England, and took part in more than 200 searches before passing away on August 20. She was the U.K.’s longest-serving mountain rescue dog, having served for 11 years in the Cumbria region before retiring in 2020.
Skye was also the first mountain rescue dog to win an Order of Merit, which is known as an animal’s Order of the British Empire, from the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, a veterinary nonprofit in the U.K. She passed away on Saturday, August 20, after collapsing in the garden and being immediately taken to the vets. Tests showed that her spleen and liver were abnormal, and it is suspected there had been a rupture.
