Working Dog Foundation

These skilled, highly trained dogs are professionals in every sense of the word, risking their lives to help make our communities safer. Police dogs possess abilities that people do not: their acute sense of smell and finely tuned hearing make them specialists in some of the most demanding jobs in law enforcement and public safety. Some of their skills include:

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- Searching buildings and areas

- Tracking down criminals

- Locating missing Alzheimer's patients, children, etc.

- Searching for dropped or hidden evidence

- Pursuing and apprehending criminals

- Narcotics and bomb detection

- Cadaver work

- and most importantly, protecting and serving the communities and officers they work in and with