Almost wordlessly, the three technicians and three doctors glide into action at the Smith Veterinary Hospital in Burnsville.

If I ever get on the Oprah Winfrey TV show and she asks me what was my most embarrassing moment I'm going to tell her it was the time I took a dog to have her picture taken with Santa Claus. And someone saw me.

Mikey, a bomb-sniffing Labrador retriever who fell to his death while on the job in Houston Wednesday morning, has been cremated and no memorial service was planned.