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A video by the Placer County (CA) Sheriff's Office of several of its K-9s dressed in human clothing—with the animals' handlers using hand gestures to anthropomorphize the dogs as human attendees at a Thanksgiving holiday dinner—has gone viral.
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A resistive subject who punched a police officer in upstate New York learned the hard way that the officer he had just assaulted is also a K-9 handler.
Read More →Officers with the Yuma (AZ) Police Department are mourning the loss of K-9 Bolo, who has succumbed to cancer at seven years old.
Read More →Officers with the El Mirage (AZ) Police Department are mourning the loss of one of their K-9s after he was shot and killed by a suspect on Friday night.
Read More →Deputies with the Davis County Sheriff's Office are mourning the loss of K-9 Chopper, who got out of the kennel in his handler's patrol vehicle and ran into traffic, where he was struck by a car and killed.
Read More →Bucca, a New York Fire Department accelerant detection dog who has aided in the investigations of numerous arsons and dozens of murders, was one of the recipients of a medal of honor for heroic animals.
Read More →The Kent (OH) Police Department announced on social media on Tuesday that a beloved K-9 named Iron has retired from duty after five years of service.
Read More →A K-9 sniff of a suspect's car led to a drug conviction and a 7th Circuit ruling on traffic stop length.
Read More →Voters in Texas made history on Election Day, showing unprecedented bipartisanship for a change to the Texas Constitution with an estimated 94 percent of voters supporting Proposition 10, an amendment that will allow retiring K-9s to be adopted by their handler.
Read More →Voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that allows dogs, horses or other law enforcement animals to be adopted at no cost by their handlers or other “qualified” caretakers.
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