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City of Charlotte, NC / Community Safety / 14 Sep 2016
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From YouTube: CMPD's Canine Unit: Featuring K9 Dano

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K9 Dano is one of 13 patrol dogs at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Officer Matthew Yoder, a K9 trainer and handler, introduces us to one of CMPD's finest.

Dano's on Instagram! Follow him @a_day_in_the_life_of_k9_dano

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Through the training that we do he's command driven, so I give him his command, and he immediately don't knows, what's going on, he'll jump out there and he knows to put his nose on the ground because that's where the article is going to be our k9 schools usually take 12 weeks from start to finish, all the things that we're asking to do: building, search, tracking narcotics or explosive detection about three eight weeks.

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They have all that and then all you're doing is just repping that out you're doing the same thing over and over and over again and you're, just getting them better at it.

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Boy I had a know for four years. You know this is our training field so anytime we come here, I'd like to do something with him, so if you bring it so in his mind, we're gonna work on something and it's always fun. The first quality that we, like, probably the most important, is it's got to be a social dog. So you know sociability is very, very very important. Then we look for a dog that has a hot Drive. You want a dog that will work his tail off. Basically to get that task complete.

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We have 13 patrol dogs and then we have a bloodhound. The patrol dogs are either cross trained for narcotics or explosives. You know in Charlotte. The biggest thing is for us. When we respond to a call, is patrol needs to set up a perimeter, and our dogs are trained to to track that person and if we can contain them in a perimeter we can. The dog can find them, but we're gonna find them. The dog is a game changer. The dog may make that person. Think I don't want to get bit by the dog I'm.

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Not I'm not doing this, and so a lot of things may not have happened because the dog was there. I have been doing this for so long I. Just can't think of ever doing anything different and I've got eight years left and I counted as though I've got one one. More dog I'll retire Danno, probably next year, and then my next dog will take me to my retirement and I just love. It there's just nothing, there's just nothing better.