15 Police FBI dogs:
Police dogs AKA K9 (indeed homophone of canine) enforce public order.
Their duties, not limited to, include chasing and holding suspects.
Usually K9 breeds are for the most part German Shepherd and Belgium Malinois.
Police dogs are involved in search and rescue mission (SAR) where Bloodhounds excel due to their great olfaction, in fact at least a thousand times more sensitive than human smell sense. They lead to the fugitive or missing person by following primarily scent, not a track; they do not bite unless trained to.
Another police dog duty consists in retrieving dead body, a cadaver dog smells and leads to a decomposing body.
Police dog’s endeavor could be at time very dangerous, October 28 2009 a police dog was killed while on duty. According to the Associated Press: “Authorities say a dog was killed during the FBI raid”.
The FBI uses Chemical explosive detection specialist dogs trained to “sniffs out” explosive chemicals and Narcotic detection specialist dogs able to smell and locate illegal drugs.
16 Psychiatric dogs:
A psychiatric service dog is trained to assist a person with psychiatric disability (Severe mental illness)
Dogs’ principal function is to assist their partner to perform tasks that most people will take for granted: For example a trained dog can remind a person to take a medication or help back home a disoriented partner. Training a psychiatric dog calls for highly trained Dog trainers, only very few organization can offer such a program.
PSDS: Psychiatric Service Dog Society developed a curriculum to teach dog trainers. Psydog.org is the website of PSDS their motto reads: “Dedicated to responsible psychiatric service dog education, advocacy, research and training facilitation”. And yes the can use some cash!
17 Rescue dogs:
Best candidates for the SAR Search and Rescue job are: Labrador Retriever, German Shepherd, Border Collie, Belgian Malinois, and Colden Retriever. Those breeds possess indeed exceptional scenting capability,
High drive, resilient and bright but to best profit from those breeds’ characteristics the dogs need to be very receptive to training.
A rescue dog is trained to detect human scent (including decomposition gases) which has been proven major rescue factor in case of people lost in the wilderness, disaster, avalanche, drowning, earthquake, landslide, collapsed structure, and train or plane accident.
18 Rescue swimmer dogs:
A beach rescue dog was reported to alert a swimmer aiming at strong currants area by clearly blocking the swimmer path to the dangerous area.
In Switzerland and Italy dogs are trained to reach swimmer in jeopardy while training a floating device. Dogrrific did not find any references to US K9 dogs trained as water rescue dog; we will gladly appreciate any contribution in this field.
The Newfoundland breed seems to be well adapted to the task, but again training aims mostly at cadaver searches and not rescuing people in peril.
19 Search dogs:
Belongs to category number 17 SAR.
20 Sheep dogs:
Let’s start with the spelling; it could also be spelled as Sheepdog (no space).
Sheepdogs obviously are herding dogs and could be pricey for example a Shetland Sheepdog puppy could be priced above the one thousand Dollars mark. Although good herding dogs are often precious “all hands” farm dog.
Sheepdog breeds include the Border Collie, French Briard, Belgian Sheepdog, Hungarian Pullie, and the well known Old English Sheepdog.
A herding dog must adapt to herd frequent changing situation and needs to be in relation to the herd in order to control herd’s moves and direction. A Sheepdog will frequently be seen blocking or bumping the animals, they act as traffic controller and heard guardian