The Times Past feature in yesterday's edition was about an unidentified golden retriever dubbed "the loaded dog".
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On this day, 36 years ago, we learnt the identity of the dog.
Raj, the Macgregor "bomb dog" was returned to his home after he spent a night in the Mugga Lane dog pound.
"He's always been a favourite around these streets, everybody knows him, but he's never had this much attention," his owner, Mr Dave Wedderburn, said.
Raj found a children's homemade "bomb" in the Ginninderra Creek.
He was slightly injured when it exploded after he dropped it.
Mr Wedderburn said he believed Raj had got into trouble because he was simply "doing his job".
Raj is trained to sniff through the remains of fires and find the starting point.
He was used in the investigation of the Manuka Village fire the year prior.
"That's why he didn't have any worries about going back into the creek after the explosion," Mr Wedderburn said.
Mr Wedderburn's children, Matthew, Angela and Michael, were just glad to have Raj back home.
See https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122504795
