Choosing K9 Puppies | K9 Mounties | Real Responders

the only reason I joined the RCMP is because I love dogs and I wonder if in a dog family everyone is there because they want to be there and the dogs they have are high drive dogs that certainly want to be there and certainly want to act, it is simply A recipe for success in every way. Our expectations are that you do your best and do it consistently because when they call you to go look for that child who is lost in the national park, you can't give up, you have to keep going. go all out for the love of the guy it's all about bond the guys have a good bond with the dogs the dogs look like they

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ly work hard for them buddy that's all they want to do is just please when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force Want to find lost people Catch criminals and discover explosives Call on an elite squad of highly trained active nominees with agile bodies, powerful jaws and incredibly sharp noses The training and selection process is rigorous and demanding and those who finally make the cut never look back because there is no task too hard for the canine Ami, the Mountie in his dress uniform, is one of Canada's most distinctive and iconic images.

It is a living link to the past when the North Western Mounted Police patrolled the West on horseback and the North by dog ​​sled. Those dogs were more than a means of transportation. Their instincts and loyalty made them a valuable part of law enforcement, even in this technological age there is still no substitute for a dog's sensitive nose and determination. It is almost impossible to overestimate the role RCMP canine police dogs play in searching for missing people. For detecting drugs and explosives, dogs' special talents and natural desire to bond with humans make them invaluable. There are about 140 general duty teams in the K-9 unit.

Each dog is the product of selective breeding and careful training. The unit is very specialized. Only 12 agents are chosen to take the course each year, and to get there, they have gone through a selection process that lasts five or six years. They come here to the RCMP training facility in Innisfil Alberta, a town that's just south of Red Deer, when I came into the RCMP I knew the police dog service was the section I wanted to get into and I was willing to do and work towards that career, no matter how long it took, whether it was five years or ten.

For years I was willing to give that time to officers like Dan Block who want to be part of the K-9 unit. Start by training a series of

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in your home division and putting them through an RCMP program called imprinting. This course involves a basic understanding of how to care for a dog but caring for the dog in a different way to a family pet the dog we are going to give you we want you to raise that dog to become a police dog there are some subtle differences that We ask that you commit to this dog to ensure that he receives and develops the behaviors we look for in a police dog.

The imprinting program is designed to help dogs develop their concentration and confidence by exposing them to as many situations as possible. It also requires doing a lot of things that a family that doesn't do once you get that dog that we give you from a person who is interested in the section you have to spend a lot of time taking the dog to places where there are police dogs. You will have to go calmly, the example is an airport dog. Many family dogs will never walk through an airport where a police dog is so trained for explosives, especially he will go there on a regular basis, going up and down escalators, surrounded by many people shouting airplanes. the background and all that type of stuff, so we ask them to expose these dogs to those types of environments at any given time.

About a hundred agents across the country are working in their local division conducting printing training. They will do this for five or six years before they are considered, of the 100 clients, only up to 12 per year are chosen to move up and become Angels dogs. It is a long road for a puppy and printer to become a dog trainer and it is a very committed goal. for them because often what happens is that they are puppy adventures, for example, they may have to raise six

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by the time they are eligible to become dog sitters. We're looking for guys who can work on their own and be a problem. solvers and who are able to handle high pressure situations, they are the best, if they are suitable, then they are selected to come, of course, how many of you here are married, your life has changed because you have the dog. the environment right now you've had the dog in the environment for two three four years, so it has a significant impact on what's going on in your family it has a significant impact on where you're going to go on vacation it has a signal that you know, but you work your life well with the dog, whether it is good or bad, that is what you do, but without this, in general, as human beings, we will not do well, but I think the part that is not well known is that when you are not working with your dog and you are not on duty in many areas of the country, you are actually on call because you are the only dog ​​hammer in large geographic areas throughout the country and many units depend on you, so you are on guard and when that doesn't happen, that dog and that vehicle or you live with your family, then it's not just a professional commitment, it's also a family commitment to police dog services, of the hundreds that apply, only one is selected 12 transponders each other to take the training course that will make your dog handlers now find out if they can fulfill their dream if they have the right things do the 85 day intensive three level course since the RCMP k9 program was established in 1935 the preferred breed has been the German Shepherd, its natural hunters and they are intelligent, loyal, balanced and brave.

They are physically perfect for the challenges of working in a country where temperatures vary from hot and humid in the summer to brutally cold in the winter and their powerful with significant byte power, making them perfect for trapping the bad, but not every German Shepherd makes a good police dog, so in 1999 the RCMP established a breeding program using a combination of hand breeding and science to create the perfect Mountie canine. all the dogs that could have become police dogs probably one in three of the puppies we raise will become a police dog and that's just because of the package we're looking for in a police dog to be able to keep track of. do the search make the criminal apprehension have the confidence to back up the dog counter and be civil enough to walk into a classroom if the hunting dog was going to give a school talk you know that dogs just have to have solid nerves and be a safe dog, a police dog will serve an average of seven years before being retired, so each year the RCMP needs about 35 replacement dogs trained and ready to go.

Special dogs require a special greeting and for that the RCMP turns to your friendly Alberta. neighbors there is a community of blood sitters from the Innisfil kennels these dog loving foster families take on the responsibility of caring for the dogs until they come into heat like Sue and John Charles our job is basically to give them exercise and they give us exercise, love, care and watch them very carefully to detect any illness or irregularity they may have. We have learned to know when they are ready to breed and then notify the RCMP immediately when the female arrives.

In heat we bring the dog here and do some daily blood tests and when she is ready to be bred, we go through the process of selecting which male we will turn her into; Now the scientific part of the equation takes Veterinarians pairing the female with the male to give the puppies the right genetic mix, but there is no romantic candlelight dinner for the male and female. The RCMP has a frozen sperm bank. We became involved in the program several years ago. I'm wondering what the best way to breathe is to advance our breeding program and I think every other species has documented that when we engage with frozen semen we can make great strides genetically, we have semen here and if we find that now we have got it. access to extremely good genetics, whereas by using the natural way that dog may no longer be fertile and therefore we have lost everything.

Those genetics are everything and certainly allow us to choose which dogs we want. The fascinating thing is that obviously with the RCMP all of their dogs are spread out across Canada, so if we had a dog that we wanted to use with a female today, it would be here instead of bringing it back every time and you know, not being able to do it. work and so on by having the genetics frozen here we can use it, what we would like to do is make other sounds around day 28 to 30 that will allow us to see if the dog is pregnant and get a It's an idea in terms of size and then my first impression here is that we have some puppies, there is a puppy there, we can see at least five puppies in this, we know they all have good heartbeats, so I think. everything looks great, we will document it in the file that we have right now, we have at least five puppies, then we will monitor it in terms of when we do an x-ray and then shortly before to confirm that. we have maintained that pregnancy oh yes you are very good you are very good once the pregnancy is confirmed the dog returns to her adoptive parents who will take care of her until the last 20 days before she is fine good girl good girl stay from the moment the puppies are born they are under the watchful eye of the veterinary services, before they are two weeks old, they are already being groomed and prepared for the canine unit.

From day ten onwards, we will begin early neurological stimulation and then we will put them on their backs. We put them face up, face down a little, and then also we put up and then we do it for five seconds and then we also stimulate between the toes to be used. manipulating their feet and then we will also give them a body massage on day ten at two weeks old we start taking them out of the whelping box and we will put them on the floor with items on the floor to see how they interact there are four different ones there are several different surfaces that we give them in their socks there are rag toys there are balls and there are gloves and we want to see how they interact and how curious they are at that moment at the end of each day the kennel staff keeps a careful record of the progress of each of the puppies If they see a problem they will work on, the next day at each stage the dogs are exposed to more new stimuli so the staff can see which of the pups has the right personality to be a police dog. inflate a paper bag and you will see how they make as much noise as you can with the paper bag and you will see how the dog reacts, that is the first of the tests, so if the dog runs around the corner and urinates, most likely It's not going to be a great police dog, but it's just one of eight, eight or nine different tests that we do, so, well, after the bag is broken, if the dog comes and wants to find, examine how he did the noise, then that is. something good, then you take the bag, you throw it and the next thing is to see if the dog is going to retrieve the treat, that's basically a big part of what our training is based on, they have to have a high drive and a high skydrive instinct. and they have to have that recovery instinct.

Mounties look for alpha qualities. Behaviors that indicate intensity. High concentration. Drive and dominant personality. Your ideal dog is brave, confident and learns quickly. A big part of working with canine units involves tracking as quickly as possible. As she can, our cmp kennel staff, Keri Russell, takes those little pups outside. Your goal is for them to start developing their noses early. Asphalt grunts. There are flower beds. There are beds of chips. All kinds of different scents we can expose these puppies to, let alone the high ones. grass or some areas a different gift we would have to fight against it and learn to climb through the bushes.

He is teaching the pups another valuable lesson about following the leader despite distractions. He takes them for a walk near a noisy, busy road and the finish line. It's to make sure they stay focused on it. I'd be surprised if these puppies are in his little computer brain. Nonsense, we probably have 60 to 80 different smells that they already know, but other dads at this age, the people who would normally raise them, are supposed to. money, you know five or six different smells, so they are tertiary memory. Wow, for puppies, if we could all understand that each month of puppies is equal to one year of human child, so when these puppies go from here to eight weeks of age.

That's like a two-year-old and I never overstimulate a child.puppy where you can, where you can fail. I always make it so that they are a winner, which strengthens our confidence and their boldness, and so on, when these puppies come out of here and they know all these obstacles, their whole world is open to them, they know everything, the members of four Paws on the RCMP's elite canine team are the product of selective breeding and a training program that begins when they are just 8 weeks old. Not all puppies will make it, but those that do are intelligent, confident, well socialized, and exposed to stimuli far beyond what a family pet will ever have to face.

It's all part of creating the perfect police dog. The dog has a certain level of Independence, a certain level of self-confidence and external dominance that exists to a certain extent and that just requires different things and as far as the human member of the k-9 team agents wants to be considered. For the UN I spent about five years in the field working with dogs. I was actually able to do a track after two years in the woods with a dog trainer and after doing the track I fell in love with dogs and what they could do. do and all that kind of stuff.

I was always around dogs growing up, but once I saw a dog that could

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ly track and work, it's just what I wanted to do, we're trying to find the best people for the job. I also don't want anyone breeding dogs for us just for fun because we needed to do it. I want to have people who really want to be here, there are a thousand people. who have marked that they want to be dog trainers, but I mean there are only 140 of you in the entire country, only 12 officers are chosen each year to take the course that they take them to in Estill Alberta to take an intensive course. 85 day three level training course, so there are four or five days of lectures at the beginning of the course where they are presented with a lot of theory and they have to understand it relatively quickly and then in that second week or sometimes in the afternoons even in the First week they are starting to acquire some basics about actually handling a dog, some tracking, some obedience and some criminal apprehension.

They start to engage in research, it's very, very fast and they have to learn because you can't afford to do that. You make a lot of mistakes with the dog in training him. He has to constantly progress to reach the end of level one. The coach is here, he wants you to succeed, so if you are a trainee and you are here so you know, keep your mouth shut and your ears open and take what they are giving you. I think you will be successful now, it's a real thing, it's true, and a lot of people are curious to know how it all works. so there's a little bit of magic involved, but really working with a dog is just a lot of hard work and love and patience and all that kind of stuff, over and over again agents would be reminded that the most important thing is the quality of the relationship that have.

They have with their dogs this comes out in different ways in literature it comes out as patience it comes out as skill what do you think? the ability to read the dog also comes out as being genuine having that genuine interest in the animal and how the animal is doing how the animal feels a hug to be able to read that animal well and that is something that the day will work on with you from now on. Until the moment we finish, you should be able to know what that dog is thinking. to a certain extent, but you have to understand that our expectations are that you will do your best and you will do it consistently because when you are called to go look for that child who is lost in the national park, you can't give up, you have to do it .

Keep going so we're happy to have you and I think you're all very happy to be here so basically do your best after just four days in the classroom learning the theory you're already out in the field for what you've been waiting for . For the training of the hundreds who apply to begin, only 12 officers a year are selected to come to Innisfil Alberta to learn how to become a member of the RCMP in the k-9 unit and now the chosen few are heading to the field. To learn how it's done, RCMP officers have to take in a lot of information at once - not only are they learning the ins and outs of the job of being a dog handler, they're also learning how to train their dog on the job.

Start basically what we have here, it's just a scent pad when we first start the dogs, that's very nice, a little scent pad sent out their attraction, so what the guys are going to do is bring the dog in and harness the dog. the scent pad is placed on the long line and I will give it to the commander because the dog was not tracked before the handlers and dogs undertook their initial tour. A guide is assigned to establish a clear, easy-to-follow scent by putting it into the soil. This will be repeated as the dogs and handlers get used to it.

Dogs are being taught to follow a scent trail. Agents are learning what could be the most important lesson for Solit Aeneas Lee. Use your judgment and follow the k- mentor. 9 section Trust your dog, you are taught not to really guess where the clue will go because that could lead you astray. I mean, you just have to read your dog's body movements and cues from him, and he's the one who will tell you where. the trail will go, this is the essence of level 1, follow the most important lesson, hold the long line with confidence and read your dog's signals so that he can follow the scent trail and find the object of the search.

I mean, guess where he is. let's go, we could get you in a lot of trouble or you don't go off the path, you'll probably take the dog out because you think it's there, but the dog knows exactly where it is and you just have to believe in It's nice to lose it, that's why it's everywhere , but the dogs are trusted by the handlers, so little by little we are eliminating the scratches. We'll get to the point or there won't be a scratch when you wait five years to do it. something no matter how tired you are, you know you just have to get through it, training is 85 days if everything goes well and you just hope everything goes well next time, dog movies, okay, like I said, it's only day five .

I don't know, maybe the day. 45 other guys may be starting to get tired of me there too, in fact, so far, good zone training requires repetition day after day, passing level one means increasing the skills of dogs and handlers alike, and The most vital skill that guides must develop is skill. trust your dog