Police Service Dogs
Sunshadows German
Shepherds are working members of many police departments across Canada and the
US. We currently have over 20 dogs working the streets with new recruits
starting regularly.
Here's
a note we got from Regina in July '09:
I
just thought, I would let you know that Sumo has been brought out of
retirement. One of our other patrol dogs got an injury to his back leg/hip
area and will be on recovery time.
Instead of training a new dog for the summer. I was asked to come back to
Canine until at least the end of the year. Sumo is doing great. He's slowed
down a little but he will also be 9 years old in September. He's still way faster
than the bad guys!
After 7 months of retirement and not doing too much, he
picked pretty much where he left off. We passed the annual certification with
a couple of days of training. We started back July 6, and recertified on July
9.
Talk to you later.
Cpl. Shane Hoedel & PSD Sumo 
Barry and Cathy:
Just thought I'd let you know that Sumo
has been retired again as of January 10, 2010. Sumo is doing great.
He misses work as he still tries to beat me out the door when I leave for
work now. From July 6/09 to January 10/10, Sumo performed quite well. He had
6 apprehensions and a dozen dog arrests without contact and that's with all
of November off as I was on Holidays. Regards, Shane
And here's another old recruit. Sunshadows Bear retired this
past summer, but he got one last shot at the 2008 Canadian Police Dog Championships;
back to defend his Championship title.

Bear watches as Ray calls a
suspect out of a bank where a robbery is in progress.

Barry helps out with the
'Fastest, Toughest Dog Contest'. Dogs were 'radared' to see which one
reached the highest speed getting to the bad guy.
Salt
Lake County Sheriff's Office acquired Sunshadows Voodoo and Vortex in July
'08. Sgt. Thomas of the K9 unit says they're doing well with several
apprehensions already.

Sunshadows Voodoo catches a big bad guy
and hangs in for the fight.

Sunshadows Vortex shows a full bite as he
carries off his reward.
Sgt. Thomas of Salt Lake County
Sheriff's Office writes:
Voodoo and
Vortex are doing great. Vortex is known throughout the valley as a man eater
with many justified bites. He could care less about article/evidence search and
prefers to try to out-track bloodhounds to find humans. We have sent Voodoo and
Vortex to the CTA (Colorado Tracking Academy and both have their level 2
certifications).
Take Care,
Randy
We
love to hear from our dog's handlers. This great note came from Ray Wong
and Sunshadows Bear from Vancouver K-9.
Hi Barry and Cathy:
Hope all is well out there. Haven't seen you guys since
Regina in 2004. Since then we've competed at the Nationals in Drumheller
in 2005, Victoria in 2006 and Las Vegas 2006. And of course working!
He is such a great boy. Not a day goes by that I don't thank my lucky
stars for getting him. Here's an article for you from a recent busy day in
Vancouver. We've also been seen on Spike TV; film crew was out with us when
we did a building search. Bear located the bad guy in the bushes in the rear
yard. Bear just turned 7 but is still strong as ever. Have a great
Christmas.
Ray and the Bear
Sunshadows Odin is working in Estevan, SK

Edmonton Police K-9s
"BOSCO" - Sunshadows Vosser
works in
New Glasglow Nova Scotia

Vancouver Police K-9s
Sunshadows Jackal, Flash, and
Bear
Retired Service Dogs

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Sunshadows Sackett worked
in West Vancouver, and was a 5 times winner of the aggression trophy
Canadian National Police Dog
Championships. |
Paul
and Sunshadows Steel
ended a successful career in Edmonton, AB in 2008, and also
won the 2004 Canadian Police Dog Championships in Regina that year.

Sunshadows Bear retired in
Vancouver in 2008 after winning the 2007 Canadian Police Dog Championships in
Edmonton.
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"Timber"
Sunshadows Tremor retired from the Delta Police Department in 2006. |
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some more of our retired police dogs.
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