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Mr.Bungle

My first post, btw- been lurking for a while;

I'm on my way home from work on a 2 lane with my coworker in the passenger seat. I pull up to a red light next to a Police Crown Vic and the K9 unit in the rear seat starts barking and lunging at the window directly towards my car, to the point where the entire Crown Vic was shaking. Now I have no doubt the inside of my car reeked of pot. Thankfully me and my coworker burst out laughing instead of trying to pretend we didn't notice anything (which might have looked a little suspicious). The question I have is aimed towards the LEOs on the board but all responses are welcome: If a K9 is trained to be a narcotics sniffer, would it just automatically alert whenever it smells something or does have to be speciffically told by its trainer to go into "on mode."

 

phuzz01

Our K9s usually go nuts whenever anybody or anything gets within about 15 feet of the car. The back of the car is their home turf, and they are pretty territorial.

Buzzby

Yeah. My first German Shepherd thought that my truck was his own personal mobile bunker. He was ready to defend it to the death.

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Amun

words of wisdom from a buddha master.


both buddha's.


and dogs definately go crazy when they smell drugs, but usually cops wont go searchin everyone a dog barks at...havent you seen that one movie when he goes into the bathroom with a suitcase full of coke or weed or something and theres like 8 cops talking with a dog. and the dogs goin off and he just ignores him and the cops dont say shit?

but yeah. anyway....they definately go off. i was in a traffic accident that involved police one time and since it was her fault i guess there wasnt much suspicion...or somethin....but yeah, the cop i had to talk to was in a K9 unit and the dog was going off while he was writing the ticket...and i just chilled lol...thank god i has smoked several hours before or i dono if i coulda been that chill. ...but yeah. i had an oz in my pocket and i just wanted to get that fuckin report and dip out.


which i did.


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Mr.Bungle

Yes, thats totally understandable; a police dog is still a dog.
I've always thought that cop dogs are trained to be completely disciplined and unemotional but I guess that you can't train away ingrained instict.

Thanks for the reply guys.

 

phuzz01

Yes, they are trained to be disciplined in that they must obey their handlers. But definitely not unemotional. We need our patrol dogs to have an aggressive drive. We need them to want to chase people down and bite them.

BartSimpson

Please note he makes reference to PATROL Dogs. There are other types of police dogs besides the ones that search for your weed. woof.

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phuzz01

Very true. We have bloodhounds for tracking, GSD's and Belgian Malinois for patrol, a black lab for explosives, a variety of dogs for cadavre, etc.

Generic Name

I think you're talking about Reservoir Dogs, and I'd just like to say, yes, dogs are very territorial but A) That was a movie, and B) That didn't even really happen in the movie, the guy narrating made that story up to tell a lawbreaker so he could get rid of any doubt that they had about him being a cop or sketch or anything.