Thai Police Recruiting Pet Dogs to Help Police
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Thai police recruiting pet dogs
BANGKOK: In the wake of unprecedented New Year’s Eve bombings in the Thai capital, police are recruiting pet dogs to bolster the thin ranks of its professional canine squads. And the response from pet owners has been good.
“These dogs will help the police dog unit, which is now short-handed,” said a police officer.He said said that so far owners of 133 German shepherds and Labradors have stepped forward to offer their pets for a two-day basic training program.
“We teach them to sit, crawl, wait and respond to the call of the owner,” he added.
The first batch of recruits will return on March 10, with the best candidates selected to undergo more intensive training and eventually take a test before qualifying for the job of detecting bombs and narcotics.
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Traditionally, police dogs were sourced from either pet homes or rescue kennels. It is only in recent years that the concept of either breeding puppies or buying puppies or part trained adult dogs has taken a hold.
It is certainly possible to find the right material from pet homes, however, here in the UK the failure rate of dogs offered to the police from either pet homes or rescue is as high as 95% whilst puppies have about a 25% failure rate, so economically it makes sense to use purpose bred puppies however, there is a real sense of achievement in turning either a badly behaved pet or a poor rescue dog into a fully trained police dog, giving it a purpose in life.
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Steve Dean
Advanced Police Dog Training Instructor
Metropolitan Police (London UK) – Retired.
I am looking for any body that has small teacupp size dogs for sale – I would like to get one for a friend any help would be appreciated
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John
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John
You might want to check out some of the rescue groups in your area. You can also check out teh adoptable dogs in your area who have Dogster pages. By all means, DO NOT buy a puppy at a pet store or from someone who has litters just to make money.
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