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MOUNT PLEASANT — It may not have been quietest of memorials.

But it was certainly one of the most sincere.

On Saturday morning around two dozen officers — about half of them K-9 units from across the region — gathered in the parking lot of the Wisconsin Veterinary Referral Center, 4333 Old Green Bay Road, to honor the life of fallen Kenosha County Sheriff’s K-9 Klaus.

A member of the sheriff’s office K-9 Patrol Team for more than five years, Klaus was still on active duty when veterinarians discovered the 6-year-old German shepherd had internal bleeding and multiple masses on his spleen and liver.

He was put to rest on Nov. 28.

“It is easy for us to calculate how many arrests Klaus was involved in, how many drugs he helped confiscate — but it is harder to measure what did not happen when Klaus was on duty,” said Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department Chaplain Timothy Blackburn Saturday as German shepherds and other police dogs mewled softly next to their handlers, or yelped or barked from nearby squad cars.