SACRAMENTO — Sacramento County leaders have approved a new budget, and they’re making millions in spending cuts. But there’s only one full-time employee who’s actually permanently losing his job, and he doesn’t even get a paycheck.
It’s the dog days of Kernul’s career. The nine-year-old chocolate lab is an agriculture detection dog with the county.
His job is to help protect California crops by sniffing out fruit and other plants that can carry invasive insects and disease…