Name: New Brunswick court service dog ringing in her retirement
Uploaded: 2025-12-26T14:37:43.130Z
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Description: In 2019, Marielle became the first member of New Brunswick’s Justice Facility Dogs program, assisting more than 300 victims in courtrooms and police stations. Now the nine-year-old poodle is retiring and leaving the work in the paws of a new team.

In 2019, Marielle became the first member of New Brunswick’s Justice Facility Dogs program, assisting more than 300 victims in courtrooms and police stations. Now the nine-year-old poodle is retiring and leaving the work in the paws of a new team.

New Brunswick

Marielle, a nine-year-old poodle, has retired after serving as New Brunswick's first accredited Justice Facility dog since 2019. Over her six-year career, she provided comfort to more than 300 victims and attended 99 trials, often accompanying individuals in the witness box to help reduce their stress.

Handlers and colleagues praised Marielle's calming presence and her significant impact on both victims and professionals in the justice system. Her retirement marks the end of a pioneering chapter, with a new team of facility dogs continuing her legacy in New Brunswick.

New Brunswick court service dog ringing in her retirement

After a six-year long career of helping victims of crime in police stations and courtrooms across New Brunswick, a trailblazer is retiring. Marielle is a nine-year-old poodle. In 2019, she became New Brunswick's first ever accredited Justice Facility dog. She recently hung up her service vest. My name is Priscilla Blanc, I'm the CEO of the Courage Centre and a primary handler with Justice Facility Dogs New Brunswick. They're trained almost like acupuncture where they put pressure on clients when they have to either testify in court or go to a police station or to do an interview here and they either lay at the foot of the client or they lay across their lap and that really reduces that stress hormone called cortisol. Marielle has helped more than 300 victims. She has attended 99 trials and often accompanied people inside the witness box. When you use a facility dog for court they have to be from an accredited school and that means that you have to make sure that the dogs are trained. So she was more than about three, three and a half by the time we met her so it was a long wait. It was exciting, we were nervous, we were the first in the province so we were overwhelmed, we didn't want to do it wrong but we fell in love with her the day we met her at dog guides in Oakville. It was just love at first paw. So Marielle is sort of a diva so she's definitely like as soon as you see her you can't help but fall in love with her. She's so cuddly and poofy and she walks like a diva, she's so feminine but her her aura, her energy, it puts you to calm immediately. So my name is Stacy Beaulieu, I've been with the Department of Justice and Public Safety now for 15 years. As a victim services coordinator now since 2018, even for me as a professional, like I felt it like in my body. It's hard to explain because it brings the cortisol down like that's the whole purpose is for people to be as calm as possible so they're able to say what they need to say in court but it also allows for us the professionals who accompany people who are vulnerable, it also allows for us to also calm down and be the best version of ourselves because we have Marielle there who can calm and support us and it just brings like a light, it brings a light to a situation where you would not think that it would be possible to have a light in the darkness, right? That's what she brings. So it's bittersweet, she deserves to retire but she's created such remarkable change for people that it's also a bit bittersweet because we'd love her to work forever if we could and it for us it also means that she's aging and she won't live forever so we wanted her to retire and go out on her own terms. Miss Marielle, oh my god that's a piece of my heart that's gone right there, yes we're gonna miss her. We also were grateful for all the work of course but there's also the rest of the team now so there's Iker, Jazz, Moxie, Winston and they're amazing so Marielle paved a way to have this amazing team. People think oh she's a fuzzy cute dog to help children, that is true but we used Marielle so that we'd have stronger convictions and so that victims could take their power back and that's exactly what she did.

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