A Pit Bull who arrived at the Kirby Animal Shelter in Texas after being hit in the head with a hammer is now helping to keep the streets of Poughkeepsie, New York, safe! After Kiah’s owner was arrested for animal cruelty, Kiah was rescued by Animal Farm Foundation, who recognized she had the right stuff to make a good K9. She joined the Universal K9 program where she soon impressed her trainers, who said she was sociable and easy to train.
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A few months later, she’s now officially a Rookie K9 Sniffer Dog at the Poughkeepsie Police Department.
Kiah’s handler, Officer Justin Bruzgul, says “(If the dog has) the energy to use her nose and want to please her handler and do that working job, it doesn’t matter what breed it is.”
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Kiah will be sniffing out drugs and people as part of her new job.
The Kirby Animal Shelter wrote on Facebook, “So proud of our Kiah! She [is] setting the bar high by proving that pit bulls can make our neighborhoods safer, not more dangerous… Way to go Kiah!”
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