While the country is still mourning the dead from Tuesday’s devastating earthquake, Frida the rescue dog from the Mexican Navy has emerged as a source of inspiration and pride in the search for survivors. /Reuters Photo

Wearing her custom-made doggy goggles and boots, the 7-year-old yellow Labrador has managed to detect the body of a Juchitan police officer and several others under the rubble. /Reuters Photo

In her career, Frida has located 12 people alive beneath the rubble plus more than 40 others dead, more than any other Mexican rescue dog, the Navy said. She has put her nose to work in disasters such as the earthquake in Ecuador last year, another one in southern Mexico two weeks ago, a landslide in Guatemala in 2015 and a Mexico City gas explosion in 2013. /Reuters Photo

She is now spending most of her efforts at a school in southern Mexico City where 19 school children and six adults died in the 7.1-magnitude quake. /Reuters Photo

"It’s a source of pride to work with Frida. She’s a very, very special dog," said Israel Arauz, her handler for the past two years. /Reuters Photo

Frida only has about a year left as a life-scent dog before her olfactory senses are expected to decline, after which she will retire to live with Arauz. /Reuters Photo