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[music] -Well, it's our 1st canine unit ever and I
think they've been thinking about it for a while and certainly, with the events in Boston
and some of the events preceding that it seemed like a good idea. More universities are leaning
towards having bomb dogs or explosive detection dogs. I think they just thought it would add
another layer of safety and security to the university community.
-Cocoa came to live with me in August of this year. She, um, what happened was we went through
Wanderhaus Guild which is the canine training academy in Wopakeneta Ohio. They found the
dog, um, she had come over from Germany in August, early August and then I brought her
home to live with me. And for the first 2 weeks when you bring the dog home, you're
just bonding. You're not doing any training with them, you're just getting to know the
dog, the dog's getting to know you. Her specialty is explosives detection and she's trained
on 17 different odors and those include all your different base odors for explosives so
she's trained on those odors, she's also trained on tracking, evidence recovery, article search
so she can look for missing people. She can track suspects she can look for evidence,
things like that in addition to her explosives detection.
-She's been very well received. I think people have been very positive about her presence
here. She's a very friendly dog. She has a very sweet demeanor. She's a good worker and
she's serious when she works but when she's just out meeting and greeting people she's
a very gentle dog and I think that in some ways she's changed that perception of police
dogs a little bit. I know some people have told me, even people that were afraid of dogs,
have told me that she's changed their mind because she is very gentle and a bit of a
goof at times.
[laughs]