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We are a non-profit organization that provides essential care, training resources and advocacy to honour and protect these loyal working partners through their lives.

🐾 This week, our K9s and handlers attended the American Tactical K9’s 6th Annual K9 Conference at the Muscatatuck Urban ...
10/09/2026

🐾 This week, our K9s and handlers attended the American Tactical K9’s 6th Annual K9 Conference at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana, October 5–9, 2026!

This hands-on, intensive training goes beyond the classroom, challenging handlers and their K9 partners to sharpen their skills, strengthen teamwork, and prepare for real-world demands. 💪🐕‍🦺

A HUGE thank you to the Longmont Police K9 Association for sponsoring our handlers and K9s! Your generous financial support made this valuable training opportunity possible, and we are incredibly grateful for your investment in our team! 🇺🇸🐾

09/14/2026

Who else would love for these gas prices to go down?! 🙋‍♂️

09/07/2026

Dog training isn’t always about training the dogs! When someone within the department has interest in becoming a decoy we send them to a decoy school and develop them “in house”. Our decoys train hundreds of hours to safely and effectively train these pups! Ofc. S did a great job with some hands on training and Delta appreciated the play time!

08/31/2026

Training: Muzzle Fighting

This training had multiple challenges for the pups. 1️⃣They had to apprehend a passive suspect who was hiding and completely silent. 2️⃣They had to work through all the human odor on the jungle gym toys to find the strongest scent- our decoy. 3️⃣They also had to navigate around the toys to get to the suspect hiding behind the “wall”.

🐕🐾: princess Delta

08/26/2026

💥EXPOSURE💥

Training: building search with an apprehension

Twist: decoy is up high where they can smell him but can’t easily get to him. We want the dogs to figure out how to communicate the suspect is here but unattainable. Signs: lingering at the last strongest human odor contact point, heads popping up and sniffing the air…repeat. They don’t stop until interrupted- showing suspect is there.

Exposure: getting the dogs used to going up and down ladders. They won’t always have the luxury of stairs! Building that bond and trust in sketchy situations is important.

📹: our very own Thunderfloof, Bear, but all dogs passed this exercise!!

08/18/2026

🎤 Hip hop, K9 style! 🐕🔥

Bounce, bounce — Pipo’s on the scene!
Big ol’ bite and he’s looking so mean! 😤

When the work is done, he’s still a happy little dude,
Give K9 Pipo some pets, he’s always in a good mood!

08/15/2026

Believe it or not, this is the first time we’ve thrown toys at the dogs as a form of distraction.

We’ve tossed cardboard boxes, clothes, etc… but not toys. When people commented about the decoy rewarding the dogs with the ball in our other videos, we had to do a lil show n’ tell!

The handlers will vary how the dogs are paid, depending on what they are training.
If the purpose of the training is to reward the dog for finding human odor, the payment can come from anyone. If they were training the dog to find a suspect and apprehend the payment is the apprehension.

This video shows the dogs are given major distractions: tugs on the floor, toys thrown in their face, handlers dangling balls in their peripheral view and making noises while tugging the leash… they stayed target locked like they should!

The reward?! Biting, aka apprehension. And trust us, they were happy even if they didn’t get a single toy on the floor.

What distraction should we try next?! “Chimken”?! 🐓🍗

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