[0:05] All right, and we're back with more [0:06] questions for Tyler and Mike on our K9 [0:09] questionnaire. Uh we have another [0:11] question from system. All right. Why is [0:14] a dog that cannot be uh that cannot [0:16] handle people approaching in a normal [0:18] manner because of training not relevant [0:20] to work working in public? That's a good [0:23] question. So, we have here Viking, who [0:26] is our K9 for Tyler, and we also have [0:29] here, hey, buddy. Rex, who is our [0:32] department therapy dog. Big difference [0:34] between the two. And the big difference [0:35] is the [0:36] drive. Rex, hi, buddy. Has great drive [0:39] to be a very social dog, very uh [0:41] therapeutic animal is what we're looking [0:43] for for the for the department, for our [0:45] officers, for the staff. You know, his [0:48] his sole job is to keep people calm and [0:50] and have a smile on their face when they [0:52] come see him. and and his sole job is to [0:54] go greet people and and say hi to [0:55] people. Whereas opposed of Vikings, his [0:58] sole job is to go look for drugs, go [1:00] look for lost people, go look for [1:02] articles that have been ditched by by [1:04] bad folks uh that that uh shouldn't have [1:06] articles maybe like guns or knives or [1:09] other weapons that we don't want out in [1:11] public eye. [1:13] Biggest thing with Viking, he comes to [1:16] work, he wants to be at work, he has to [1:17] work, he wants to work. This is what [1:19] he's supposed to do. This is what he's [1:20] meant to do. This is life. Work work. [1:22] That's his drive. He wants to go drive. [1:24] He wants to do that. So when uh when it [1:27] comes time for social settings with [1:28] Viking, he just needs to have that [1:30] moment with Tyler and they need to talk [1:31] about it. They're gonna have their own [1:32] little discussion and talk about what [1:34] the expectation is. We're not going to [1:35] get out. We're not going to work. We're [1:36] not going to go find anything. We're [1:37] going to go say hi to people. And so [1:39] once Viking understands that, which it [1:41] just takes him a moment to to kind of [1:42] understand that we're not going to go [1:44] work, we're just going to go say hi. [1:45] Then he's super social. And that's [1:47] that's just his makeup. Um that ball, he [1:50] drives for that ball. So Tyler, when you [1:52] give him that ball and there's people [1:53] around, he's pretty social dog. Yeah. [1:55] Yep. Absolutely. Yep. He wants to go [1:56] play right now. He wants to go see Rex [1:58] and they want to go play right now, but [2:00] he can't play right now. Don't you guys? [2:02] So that that's the whole thing. We don't [2:04] want folks coming up to to Viking and [2:05] rushing up to them or him like they like [2:08] you can do Rex. Rex can handle that. Rex [2:10] is made for that. With Viking, he he's [2:13] going to back off. He's going to look [2:14] for Tyler and he's going to he's going [2:15] to look for his command and and that's [2:16] what he is meant to meant to do, what [2:18] he's meant to be trained in. So, if you [2:20] see Tyler and Viking out there, just ask [2:22] Tyler, "Can I see your dog?" And if as [2:24] long as they're not busy, not going [2:25] somewhere on a canine call or a patrol [2:28] call, then absolutely. That's totally [2:29] fine. We don't want to raise mean dogs. [2:31] We are here to raise nice animals and [2:33] and social animals, but we want that [2:35] drive, that hard drive in our police [2:37] dogs versus that drive in our in our [2:39] therapy dogs who are meant to be social [2:42] and lovable and and people just come [2:44] right up and and grab them. Can you [2:45] quickly touch on uh like how that [2:47] compares to service level? Yeah. So, if [2:49] you see a service dog out in public, [2:50] you're not just going to go up to a [2:51] service dog and expect that you can go [2:53] up and grab that dog and say, "Hi, [2:54] little doggy." and want to go love on [2:56] that little doggy. No, you don't want [2:58] to. And you're not going to because as [3:01] common sense says, that dog is working. [3:03] That dog is is meant for that person to [3:05] do things. Good boy. So, that's the same [3:08] thing with a police dog. You just don't [3:09] rush up to a police dog and and want to [3:10] go say hi and greet that dog. You're [3:12] going to want to check with a handler [3:13] first and make sure it's okay. as [3:15] opposed to therapy dogs. Little bit [3:18] different. Great buddy. Rex is saying hi [3:20] to everyone through the uh the recorder. [3:24] So, I think that's uh that's the only [3:26] other question we had on our list today. [3:27] So, all right. Another episode of uh [3:29] Tyler and Mike and Rex. All right.