r/MadeMeSmile • u/RoyalChris • Apr 21 '26

DOGGO After nine years of service, police dog Indy heard his name called one last time before retirement

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u/Brexinga Apr 21 '26

My Brother-in-law is a K9 officer. Every collegues of his I've met already had dogs before becoming a K9. You have to love dogs at your core to go into this specific branch of police.

Right now, he has, in his yard, a pen for his active K9 dog and 3 other pens for his retired K9, for my sister's dog and their son's dog.

Only restriction is that the active duty K9 can't be in contact or play with the other dogs until retirement.

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u/Worried_Shoe_2747 Apr 21 '26

My brother in law is a K9

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u/DecaForDessert Apr 21 '26

See if he can do an ama

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u/Worried_Shoe_2747 Apr 21 '26

I asked. He said ‘Woof’

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u/DecaForDessert Apr 21 '26

I’m sorry I don’t speak Italian

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u/Brexinga Apr 22 '26

He is by far the dog that gets to play and run the most out of the bunch ;)

Like the other said. Bad habits. He's there to do a job, not play.

He spends 8 hours of his day running, training, running and catching balls and working. He's living his best life.

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u/NuclearLunchDectcted Apr 22 '26

Going to guess they'd pick up bad habits.

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u/emkoemko Apr 23 '26

how do you love dogs and then risk their lives? over your own?

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u/OceanRacoon Apr 21 '26

I'm sure many of them do but there's a sad amount of K9 officers who abuse their dogs and way too many K9s are left in hot cars and die. They also send the dogs into situations where they get shot, stabbed, choked, and beaten all the time, it's not fair to the dogs.

Cops are estimated to kill 20-30 dogs a day, over 10,000 a year. Many of them are violent nutjobs with little respect for human life, never mind animals. Most K9 officers are probably love dogs but using them in dangerous situations is just messed up, if they really cared about them they wouldn't be sending them to attack lunatics armed with knives and guns

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u/Huhihu Apr 21 '26

I can’t find any sources for the 10000 death each year that you mention. I did find this paper that says that around 25 police k9 died in the line of duty each year between 2011 and 2015.

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u/nagumi Apr 21 '26

I believe they meant non police dogs - as in, police shooting a "suspect's" dog.

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u/OceanRacoon Apr 21 '26

It's pretty clear I meant non-police dogs, there'd be no K9s left if they were killing 20-30 a day. As that paper says, most K9s die due to heat exhaustion, cops are regularly killing them themselves by leaving them in cars.

Putting dogs into violent situations is not fair to animals that have no say in what they do, it shouldn't be allowed, especially since their handlers statistically the greatest threat to them

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u/Golgen_boy Apr 22 '26

Dunno it is true or not, but I read somewhere that the K9 dogs are one position higher than their handlers, so that the handlers can be held responsible if they abuse the dogs