Late last month in Oklahoma, K-9 Smokey of the Nowata Police Department was killed when an intoxicated woman opened the back door of a police vehicle, allowing the dog to run into the roadway where he was struck by a truck. And in Texas earlier this month, K-9s Grunt and Neil, who were trained to track critically missing persons with dementia for the Refugio County Sheriff’s Office, were strangled to death by a suspect they were tracking. READ
More than 40 K-9 officers and their dogs stood at attention as the funeral procession for Rocky passed through Veterans Memorial Park Monday morning to honor the German shepherd killed in the line of duty last week. READ
Police officers from across Suffolk County received hands-on training Thursday in Riverhead on how to treat wounds to K-9 dogs, from bandaging legs to identifying injuries such as a hip fracture. READ
In a garage connected to the back of the state police barracks in Riverside, O’Neill gets to work immediately.