Working Dog Magazine

08/19/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Our August Working Dog of the Month – K9 ROTC!

K9 ROTC (rot-see), an 8-year-old Yellow Lab with the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention, Fire Investigations Branch, has spent years assisting dozens of agencies, including the ATF, CBI, and FBI, on numerous fire investigations alongside his handler, Brian Eberle.

We’re thrilled to announce that ROTC officially retired last Friday! Thank you for your incredible service, ROTC - enjoy your well-earned retirement!

ROTC is now entered for the Grand Prize, where one July or August winner will earn a full-page spotlight in the next issue of Working Dog Magazine, a social media feature, and a custom winner’s certificate.

Want to know more about ROTC’s incredible journey? We’ll share his full story in an upcoming newsletter – make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss it! 👉🏼 bit.ly/wdmnewsletter

Your dog. Their moment.

08/18/2025

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08/17/2025

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Your dog knows when you’re lying.

According to research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, dogs can evaluate human reliability and stop following advice from people who’ve lied to them before.

They’re not just watching. They’re learning.

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08/17/2025

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08/17/2025

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❝Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.❞

No shortcuts. No gimmicks. Just steady work, stacked over time.
That’s how results are built and that’s why we publish content worth reading.

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08/15/2025

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Working Dog Magazine Working Dog of the Month Contest

Think your dog has what it takes?

Each month, we spotlight one incredible working dog in our e-newsletter and every single entry gets posted to our official Facebook album and receives a prize pack from us (WDM decal, magnet, koozie, and ink pen).

For this round, one Grand Prize Winner from July or August will receive:
• A full-page photo spotlight in Working Dog Magazine (September issue) 😳
• A spotlight on our Instagram and Facebook
• A custom winner’s certificate

💥 Entry: $25 via Venmo or Zelle
🐾 All working disciplines welcome - patrol, detection, SAR, therapy, EOD, and more

📆 Deadline: Friday, August 15, 2025, at 11:59 PM (CST)
🏅 Monthly Winner Announced: Monday, August 18, 2025, at 5 PM CST

👉🏼 Venmo:
👉🏼 Zelle: 270-564-5154
• Include your dog’s name, your name, and your email in the payment notes.

📸 Email your best photo to: [email protected] (make it count!)
• Include dog’s name, handler’s name, and email.

Your dog. Their moment.

08/15/2025

She didn’t carry a weapon. She carried hope.

Judy was an English Pointer, born in Shanghai and raised aboard Royal Navy ships. She learned to navigate decks, sense storms, and bark at trouble long before war ever broke out. But nothing could have prepared her for what came next.

In 1942, her ship - HMS Grasshopper - was attacked and sunk by Japanese forces. Judy survived. She swam to shore alongside the crew, found freshwater in the jungle, and led them through enemy territory to safety.

But that was only the beginning.

Judy and the surviving crew were captured and sent to a Japanese POW camp. Life inside was brutal - hunger, disease, punishment. Yet Judy stayed with them. She became more than a mascot. She became a lifeline.

She barked warnings when guards approached. She shared scraps of food with prisoners. She chased off snakes and lifted spirits in a place where joy was nearly extinct.

Fearing she’d be killed, the prisoners hid her identity until one of them, Leading Aircraftman Frank Williams, managed to get her officially registered as a fellow prisoner of war - the only dog to ever hold that status.

She survived the camp. She returned home. And she lived out her days peacefully in England, finally safe beside the man who had shared her sentence.

We remember Judy not because she knew what war was, but because she knew who her people were. And she stayed with them. Through hunger, fear, and barbed wire.

08/15/2025

K9 👏🏼 leads 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 way

08/15/2025

Your dog’s next level starts here. 💪🏼🐾

Join us in for a hands-on canine fitness workshop with Blue-9 Pet Products and take home the tools to keep training.

🥇And by tools, we mean a FREE limited edition, super cool, GOLD, Working Dog Magazine-branded KLIMB!

👉🏼 grab your spot : workingdogmagazine.com/fit-for-the-field

From working dogs to couch potatoes - learn simple, effective ways to boost your dog’s strength, mobility & injury prevention.

08/13/2025

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Working Dog Magazine K9 Tips on Tuesdays…ish: Fuel Their Mind

Yes, it’s Wednesday. Yes, we’re late. But your dog’s brain is ready for a boost anytime.

Discover the 5 nutrients that make your dog smarter, sharper, and happier.

📌 workingdogmagazine.com/fuel-their-mind
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