POLICE DOGS

[*LabLoverKEB*]

I just want to know what all of you think and know about Police Dogs. I know a lot aboput them, and I want to learn more! These are the breeds they use for Police work: German Shepherds, Rottweilers, Dobermans, Bloodhounds, the Malinois, and the Tervueren.

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***Sadie May and LabLover*** *Labs rule the universe*

[Sudilar]

Here's an interesting site about police canine officers: www.doggear.net/webusers/kennels/ladylaw/index.html

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[Rottie]

At the Memorial Day service I went to a week or so ago, there were probably at least 25 police dogs there. It was really neat! Most of them were German Shepherds, and a few Belgian Malinois.

[PetsRule]

I think police dogs are pretty cool!
I have watched cop shows and the police dog sniffed the cars and found drugs in them.
Could you write to me at Do you have pugs?

[PetsRule]

I messed up. It is at Who has pugs.
Police dogs rock.

[RottieLover]

I've always admired ploice dogs.
I've wanted to donate some rottie puppies to my police force.

Who Knows!

[ShepherdLover]

Yes sometimes you'll hear the German Shepherd being called a Police Dog. They've been used as police dogs ever since the late 1800's. (That's when they were first seen.)

In early years they used Airedales alot and Giant Schnuzers (spelling?). The breeds have changed over the years.

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Becky Weise & Iris - the German Shepherd
http://www.geocities.com/iris_gsd

[crow_noir]

technially german shepherds didn't exist until about 1890. (1899). the dog they were derived from of course existed before then. however they are new in the area of dog breeds.
www.americantundrashepherd.com has the gsd history on their page. i have found this elsewhere on the web. honestly i have yet to call the skc and talk to them. origanally german shephers dogs were called alsatians. the area they came from.

[ShepherdLover]

Actually, crow_noir, I think that only England called them Alsatians because they wanted to use the breed after WWII. They didn't want to use the word "German" so they just changed the name to Alsatian.

That's the story that I heard.

You are correct that they didn't exist until the 1890's.

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Becky Weise & Iris - the German Shepherd
http://www.geocities.com/iris_gsd

[Sudilar]

Crow-noir, The American Tundra Shepherd website was very interesting! Thanks for the lead.

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[RottieLover]

Actually, ShepherdLover.

The German Shepherd is really a new breed of Alsatians, came from the same place, a small town called Alsas on the french german line. They where a much bigger breed of dog. They where bred down (smaller) in the past 100 years.

My grand dad bred Alsatians, in England.
In some dog breed books they will have both the German Shepherd & the Alsatian.

I would think before they had "police dogs" they had war dogs, an early ancecter of working dogs (in any type of form).
But anyways.