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On the next Rob on the Road...
Come on over officers.
I hope I live through this,
I have to sign a waiver
in case I don't.
Join me as I suit up
for a one of a kind
K9 cop experience with
the Sacramento Police K9 Unit.
They are definitely, uh,
very heavyweight jackets
...sweat a lot.
Well there's-
this doesn't cover my hands.
Just wait and see
how these officers
take a bite out of crime,
protecting and serving
Sacramento.
[man yelling]
Plus...
Wait, back...
Back up.
There you go.
[laughter]
Sit up for this.
You won't believe the world
title this California K9 holds.
That's Walle,
the winner of the World's
What is that?
[laughter]
That's awful.
And later...
And now we are going to get into
the favorite part of this event,
which is the costume contest.
Pups in the Park
brings in the bucks,
all for a good cause.
This is my dog Churchill,
of course the worst behaved.
[laughter]
Churchill, you have
got to calm down.
Rob on the Road starts now.
Okay, that's it.
And now Rob on the Road,
exploring Northern California.
Sacramento Police K9,
you need to come out now.
I'm gonna send the dog,
he may find you and bite you!
And that's what this show
is about on Rob on the Road.
Find 'em, find 'em.
Where's the bad guy?
[police siren and barking dog]
Don't run, don't run.
I'm gonna send the dog.
Fass!
[dog barking]
That's a good boy,
got the bad guy!
Whooo!
Well I am fascinated with what
we're about to show you today.
We are with the
Sacramento Police K9 Unit
with the leader of the pack,
no pun intended,
Sargent Steve Olivera.
Good to see you.
Hey, welcome to
the Sacramento Police, uh,
K9 Training Facility.
Oh this is fascinating, you know
we've been watching the members,
the police K9s, in action.
They're training-
training to save your lives,
to catch criminals and
to save the lives of the people
of the City of Sacramento...
What an honor.
That's right.
They're, uh, they're really
an invaluable asset for us.
Uh, we put a lot of time
and money and effort into
training 'em to get 'em
to where they can go out
on the streets and, uh,
protect the community.
And protect the officers in
our department and other
departments in the region,
and especially the handlers
to make sure that everybody
goes home safe at night.
Now this is not just a dog...
this is a trained police officer
that lives with you.
This is Sig,
this is your partner.
That's right.
Tell me about Sig.
Well Sig's about five years old.
We've been together for
about three years.
So we, uh, like the dogs
here behind us are brand new,
he went through the
same training program,
about three months where he
trained with me, uh, we trained
together with our trainer.
Uh, went through everything
from obedience to, uh,
doin' protection work, which is
you know, catchin' the bad guys.
Uh, the search training, uh,
agility course we- that we
have and goin' through
different types of obstacles
so that, uh, when he encounters
those in the street,
he knows how to handle 'em.
And, you know,
bad guys find very creative
places to hide and we need
our dogs to be able to get
to where they're at to be
able to find and apprehend 'em.
Good boy, easy.
Go.
Good boy, good boy.
Heel.
C'mon.
And we're with Officer Randy
Van Dusen as well as his
partner Officer Bosko.
Good to see you, Randy.
Good to see you.
So nice, and such a pleasure
to meet you.
Alright.
I've heard a lot of good things
about you for a very long time.
Y'know, you have had quite the
year with the Police K9 Unit.
You and your beloved Bodie,
who was a Sacramento hero,
uh, were involved in a shooting.
Thank God Bodie lived,
and so did you.
You were not shot.
But Bodie did take the hits.
Absolutely.
♪♪
How is Bodie today?
He is doin' great, actually.
He's had, uh,
several surgeries over the past
year and it's got him to the
point where he can be a nice,
happy house dog and just retire,
and play with his toys all day,
and enjoy the- the life of a
retired police dog.
And still live with you.
And still live at home, yes.
Now this is your third
K9 partner, uh, police partner.
And... Bosko is how old?
Bosko is 16 months old and,
uh, he is a fun little puppy.
He's- he's learning very quickly
and- but he is a lot of fun.
Good boy, good boy.
Down.
Good boy.
[police siren]
♪♪
And check this out,
this is for quick access.
When the police K9's partner
says "Car"- car...
the dog jumps up right inside.
Good job, Bosko.
Good job.
Car.
♪♪
Let's talk about the
training because that's what
flips that switch on and off.
Um, tell me about the
obstacle course training.
I watched a dog jump a
seven-foot fence... like that.
That's right.
So, our- we have an obstacle
course, of course, you know,
when we get out there in the
field we're not gonna run
into those type of obstacles.
However, we feel that
our course kinda prepares 'em
to what they will encounter
out on the streets.
So, uh, you mentioned the wall.
Sacramento's a lot of
neighborhoods where there
are a lot of fences,
all the neighborhood-
all the yards are fenced off
so we have suspects who flee
from us and jump over fences
and they think they can get
away that way from a police dog
but these dogs will jump right
over the fence right after them.
A six-foot fence is
typically what we encounter,
so we train our dogs to jump
seven, eight-foot walls that way
a six-foot fence- no problem.
Good boy.
The scent, the scent is
what these dogs locks onto.
And you take us inside the
tactical house which has
everything under the sun in it.
It has lockers, it has a bar,
it has an attic,
which is where a lot of
criminals tend to hide when
they get trapped up in a house.
And these dogs, boom-
they go right in and find them.
That's right.
How in the world?
It's a- you know,
it's a little harder to
replicate in training because
we're using, uh, volunteers.
They might be a little
afraid but they're just not
puttin' off the odor like
true suspects are.
When, uh, when bad guys
are runnin' from us
they're puttin' off this odor,
uh, that we call the
"fear scent" and it's so much
stronger than what- anything
else we could put out.
Uh, it's the sweat, it's the,
uh, the stress that
they're puttin' out.
And once they get on the
streets and they start, uh,
y'know, searching and get some
experience they really start
to learn to, uh, cue in on
the odor and that's how
they find the bad guys.
So that's how they know that
that's the person in pursuit.
It's what the scent puts off
and that dog's olfactory
organ just- boom.
That's correct.
I mean, their- their se-sense of
smell is a thousand times
stronger than ours.
Uh, they can just smell things
that we can't and they can,
uh, differentiate between the
different odors so, um,
that's what makes 'em such a
great asset for us.
They're, uh, we call 'em
a force multiplier because
out on the streets,
we could search a whole
neighborhood, y'know,
in half the time that we
could with five or six officers.
It'll be myself,
our police dog and maybe one
or two other officers
we call "cover officers"
because we really have to
focus on what the dog's
doing and look for his
little cues on whether or
not he's starting to pick up
that odor because it could
be just a head jerk, it could be
a- a lift of the head,
and they start to pick it
and then they gotta,
they start to pick up that
smell and then they
gotta focus in on it,
narrow it down,
we call it the "scent cone"
and they gotta figure out
where that scent is actually
originating from and so we
really have to watch our
dogs so that's why we bring
officers with us to be our
officer safety.
Hey!
Get!
It's very difficult to
explain the bond we have
with these dogs.
Uh, y'know, folks have their own
personal pets and their dogs and
cat and they love 'em but the,
uh, the type of bond that we
create with these dogs, uh,
we go through very stressful
situations with them
on a regular basis,
on a daily basis
when we're at work.
We train with them constantly.
We always joke that we are
with these dogs more than
we're with our own family.
Uh, these dogs are essentially,
unless we're on vacation,
they're with us 24 hours a day.
Uh, we're with them at work and
we don't leave them at work,
they go home.
So they're gonna live with us
and we're with 'em at home
and then the next morning
they go back to work with us.
So having that bond and
going to all the different
types of calls we go to, uh,
with our partners, uh,
just- solidifies that bond.
Good boy, that's a good boy!
Good boy!
Now... it is quite an honor
within the force
to have a K9 partner.
I know of officers who
have waited years to
get that coveted slot.
This is true, ah, unfortunately,
uh, for those wanting to
get in the unit,
it is a hard unit to get into.
Uh, there's a lot of qualified
people out there in our agency,
however once somebody does
get into the K9 Unit,
it is such a great job that
they tend to stay.
And plus they don't get, uh,
to become a- a good handler
until maybe several years
into it where they really
start to learn how to work
the dog and what to look for.
And so usually we like to
have a handler in there for
quite a few years so they
get that experience and
that's better off so that
they are on the streets.
So at the end of the day,
you- you know you get to go
home with your- with your
work partner and have a
whole different bond than
you do during the day.
Do you feel rewarded?
You know, we feel lucky
to have them as a partner.
You know...
they never call in sick,
they don't complain, uh,
they're always excited
to come into work.
Uh, you know,
we go home at night and, uh,
when we get home they know it's
time to relax and to be a dog.
But in the morning when we
get up and get dressed, uh, they
see the uniform start comin' on
and they start getting excited
and start spinning around.
I gotta put him outside for
a little bit so he doesn't
start knocking furniture over.
[laughter]
Like a mole in a china cabinet.
Exactly.
And, uh, he's waiting
to go out the garage door
to get in that car 'cause
he loves coming to work.
So we feel very fortunate to
always have a partner with us.
I'm at- they're our
eyes and ears and they do
help protect us, for sure.
There's one thing I really
want to point out,
and don't get fooled because
if you're doing something
wrong these dogs are not
gonna be sweet to you,
but they are very sweet dogs.
They are, y'know, uh,
when we go out to the
venders that, uh,
sell police dogs that's the
first things we look at-
they have to be social.
So, uh, if we can't go into the
kennel and bring 'em out
ourselves and play with 'em, uh,
we'll move onto the next dog.
So that is our first test, um,
because we, as you mentioned,
we do bring them home
to our families.
Uh, they're part of the family
on the weekends, uh,
we treat 'em as a pet...
Yeah, many of you
have young children.
Exactly.
We all have young children
at home, so we want a dog
that's gonna be social
but as the same time...
We call it like having
a light switch.
They really know when we put
the light switch and it's
time to go catch that bad
guy or do some work,
they know when to do it and
a minute later they're right
back to just being a dog.
Heel! Heel!
These dogs are nothing
to play with when
you're in a crime scene.
....As you kiss me.
[laughter]
That- that really defuses
that whole point, right?
He's gonna kill you
with kindness.
Alright, well just remember to
kiss me after you bite me, okay?
Alright, let's see
what he can do.
I'm a little scared.
Oh it's gonna be fun.
Thank you so much, Randy.
Thanks, Rob.
Okay, so anything for you.
I'm gonna put on the K9
tactical outfit.
Come on over officers.
I hope I live through this,
I have to sign a waiver
in case I don't.
And let's see here,
this is the bite suit?
Yes it is.
This will protect you from
any sort of punctures from
the dog's teeth.
Alright.
♪♪
Will they bite your feet?
Ahh, yeah.
They'll bite whatever you
put in front of 'em.
Okay.
These things are heavy, gah...
They're definitely, uh,
very heavyweight jacket.
Well this- this doesn't
cover my hands...
Uh, you're gonna tuck those in.
What am I doing?
You all ready?
Fass!
ó ó ó ó
ó ó ó ó
Okay, that's it.
Stay right there,
keep your face protected.
Good, good.
Well I- I tell you that was
exciting and thrilling but I
would not want it to be for...
real.
The real deal.
So I'm out of my suit and
this is just two- three
minutes after we just did
the attack and Bosko...
Hi sweetie, I'm sorry.
Why am I apologizing to the dog?
He's happy.
You, uh,
you got dressed up for him
and he had a lot of fun.
I guess I was a chew toy.
Well thank you so much.
Hey, thank you.
You did a great job, Rob.
No, I didn't.
Pleasure to meet you.
This is one that did the
great job.
Still ahead on Rob on the Road
dogs from across
Northern California
put their best paw forward
walking to raise money
to help area youth.
♪♪
This is just hard for me to say,
but I'm sitting here with Walle,
the winner of the
World's Ugliest Dog Competition
and Walle's human owner,
Tammy Barbee in Chico,
good to see you Tammy.
Hi, nice to be here.
Yeah it is nice to be here
with you too out in your
beautiful yard and
your beautiful dog, there's
nothing ugly about Walle.
Tell me about that.
They just think that
he's unique,
he's got different traits,
his body style is different.
I don't think he's ugly.
I'm glad to hear you say that.
He's unique.
He's definitely unique and
he's very sweet.
You know, ugly is an action,
not a physical appearance
in my book,
I don't think anything's ugly.
But the judges said that
Walle looked like a bunch of
Photoshopped pieces of
different dogs stuck together.
Yes.
What is your reaction to that?
That's what everyone says
when they meet him.
They say that his head is
too big for his body and his
legs are too short and it looks
like he's been Photoshopped.
What I think is so cute was
because we pulled up in the
driveway and Wolly came
running down the driveway
and he looked amphibious almost.
His little legs look like,
I don't know,
maybe even a turtle.
Have you heard that before?
They say a duck.
A duck, that's even better.
♪♪
Good boy!
Tell me about Walle, tell me
about his temperament and
what kind of dog he is.
He's a Beagle,
Basset and Boxer.
Beagle, Basset and Boxer, okay.
And what's his temperament like
because he seems very sweet.
He is very sweet.
He's the nicest dog
you'll ever meet.
Alright, so I have to ask, does
he sleep in the bed with you?
Yes, he does.
Okay, mine do too.
And so, normally you see the
winners of ugly dog competitions
being the ones that have no hair
Yeah.
Did you get a lot of flak?
No.
People afterwards were
saying that he's not ugly,
he's just different but some
people say only the hairless
were the ones that should win.
You know,
there's different opinions.
But no, I walked around there
and everybody loved him.
They said they wanted to see
him and they liked the way
he was different looking and
they wanted him to win.
"But how can you even begin
to decide which of these two
animals are uglier?
This is a tough decision.
Ladies and gentlemen,
earning the title of the
world's ugliest dog,
give it up, for Walle."
What are we supposed to do
with the prize?
Spend it on you?
That's right.
And so, has Walle become
sort of a local celebrity?
He was really well known
before so everybody was happy.
♪♪
So, do you know who this dog is?
I have heard about this dog.
I've never seen this dog.
Alright, well what do you think,
that's Walle,
the winner of the...
What is that?
That's awful.
It's Walle!
Alright well, what do you think,
does it deserve the title?
Yeah.
You don't think he's cute?
I think he's really cute
actually because I've seen
some of those ugly dogs,
those things are ugly but
he's got a cute face.
He has a beautiful face.
He's a sweetheart.
Uh... it's interesting.
It's a he.
He's interesting.
What is he?
A dog.
What kind though?
A Beagle, Basset and Boxer.
All crunched into one.
Wow that's cool!
Ever seen anything like that?
No.
Me neither.
He's a local celebrity.
He is a local celebrity and
you knew him from Facebook?
Yeah we're Facebook friends.
Should make one for my dog so
then they could be dog friends.
I love dogs no matter what they
are - size, shape, anything -
but you just want to pick him up
and give him a hug.
I know and what do you think
about the title of the
World's Ugliest Dog?
Oh, I don't like that.
Oh, he's heavy.
Hi Walle.
Can you sit?
Does he know any tricks?
He sits up.
Alright let's see
if he can do it.
Walle!
Do it again.
Back up.
That's hard for him, he doesn't
have any legs you know?
And his arms go like this,
they flap.
That's very cute, very cute.
And he's how old now?
Four years.
He's four years old.
So what did you see in Walle
to make you want to enter
the Sonoma-Marin Fair in
Petaluma and he won.
What made you want to enter him?
Everybody says that he
should be in contests or be
on television and he's won
locally Most Unusual here in
Chico and Humane societies
king of the show and then
just recently,
we were at Yosemite and this
kid yelled out,
"your dog is ugly!"
Aw, that's so mean.
And for some reason I
remember someone telling me
to enter him in that contest,
not that he's ugly,
he's just unique, you know.
And so I came home and
looked it up and it
was the following day.
And so you showed up.
Yeah.
And there were people from
all over the country there.
Yes.
Were they mad that a local won?
Um, I think so.
Somebody had entered three
and four times and never won.
When Walle won the competition,
did you go on television shows,
besides us, what else?
They flew us to New York and
we went on The Today Show,
three different segments,
and then Fox and Friends and
then we went on Kathie Lee
and Hoda and the View.
And everyone must watch The
Today Show because they were
coming up to him like crazy and
"there's the celeb dog!
We watched him this morning
on The Today Show!
He's a celeb!"
He's a famous little thing.
So what's next for Walle,
do you have any more
competitions coming up?
And what did you win by the way,
did you win a cash prize?
Yes, $1500 and a four foot
trophy and a six foot trophy.
And so if Walle could say
something about this
competition,
what do you think he'd say?
I think he'd say we're
having fun, you know,
he doesn't really understand
the word ugly or anything
but he like pictures and
cameras and people so I
think he likes it.
Well let me just ask you
something because we posted
this on Facebook and several
people immediately wrote,
"that dog is not ugly,
how could that dog be entered
into that competition?"
What is your response to them?
What's my response?
Um, I don't know,
people call him all sorts of
things so I entered him.
It's just unique to me
that's what it is,
I don't think any dog is ugly.
I don't either,
they're all beautiful.
They're all just different
in their own way.
Well let's see if we could get
Walle to sit up one more time.
Yes, you can.
With everybody watching,
come on Walle.
You can do it.
There we go.
Come on sit back here,
come on you got it.
That is so cute.
The beautiful Walle in Chico.
Thank you so much Tammy.
Good to be with you.
Thank you.
With the beautiful dog, Walle.
Say bye-bye.
Wave bye-bye.
Dog lovers will come
together with their little
canine companions and some
big dogs as well,
all for a good cause at Pups
in the Park on Rob on the Road!
And we're here with Adrian
Ruiz who is with the Youth
Development Network here
in Sacramento.
Good to see you!
Good to see you sir.
And the Pups in the Park is
benefitting your organization,
tell me about that.
Right, we are an organization
dedicated to optimizing the
lives of our young people
here in Sacramento.
As I speak to you right now,
there are so many young
people who don't feel safe,
who don't have amazing
relationships like
Storm and I have.
And we know that we can make
this a better place for our
young people and we're doing
it and we're really excited
about that.
How are you doing that?
Specifically we are training
all youth developers to be
better at what they do.
That might be teachers,
that might be CPS agents,
that might be Parks and
Recreation specialists.
We're working with anyone
that works with young people
and saying,
this is how you create amazing
places for our young people.
Well that's a wonderful
thing that you're doing.
♪♪
Oreo, say hi!
You're a hound dog, right?
♪♪
Great to see everyone out
and for a great cause,
this Pups in the Park is,
I think, a signature event that
represents the best of our
community and brings together
dog lovers with community lovers
and all for a great cause so
we're helping youth,
we're helping animals,
we're helping the park,
all those good things and
you get to have fun.
♪♪
Can we give them a big hand
for making this event
possible, our sponsors?
Also all of the donors and
vendors that came out
lighting and staff and board,
thank you so much for
making this happen.
It's all about the owner,
it's not about the dog.
Anyway, again, welcome,
this is so exciting!
It's a great turnout.
All the support,
wonderful causes...
And now we are going to get
into the favorite part of
this event which is the
Costume Contest.
♪♪
Chick-fil-A cow.
♪♪
Have you ever seen
so many cute dogs?
No.
It's an amazing event.
Really fast, three years ago,
we had twenty dogs show up,
it was raining outside
and we thought,
maybe we shouldn't
do this event.
Three years now to the
present, look what we have.
Oh, hundreds, hundreds.
This is my dog, Churchill.
Of course, the worst behaved.
Churchill you have got
to calm down.
And everywhere you look
there are smiling dogs
there's big dogs,
there's little dogs,
there's all shapes and sizes
all colors and just a wide
variety of owners as well.
That must make you feel
pretty good to see such a
good turnout.
It does, you know,
this is a great event for
Sacramento to come together
as a community but also to
remember that the reason we
do this is for our young
people to thrive and be
successful in their future.
Okay, well Adrian,
it was so nice to see you
and we have to ask,
what's your dog's name?
Storm!
Storm, alright Storm
give me your paw!
Wave bye-bye!
Say bye-bye here on
Rob on the Road.
♪♪