Working dogs provide essential services and assistance to their human partners. They undergo extensive training from a young age to learn skills like guiding the blind, detecting diseases, searching for survivors, and providing emotional support. While their work is rewarding, it also carries risks like injury, stress, and an early retirement age. Ensuring the welfare and proper care of these hard-working dogs after their service is important both for the dogs' well-being and to maintain the partnerships between humans and their canine assistants.

1. Working Dogs
“Right now, your just a tiny puppy...but one day,
men will be at awe in your presences..”

5. POLICE DOGS
What breeds are used?

7. PUPPY TO POLICE DOG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwe2aq-
RGjY&list=PL96D54CA5E1806EDB
8 weeks : training starts.
- Playing with toys.
- Learning how to associate things
6 weeks – 6 months : main period
- how to associate with everything that goes on.
- Stopping fears : fireworks, thunder. ( Habitation)
8-12 weeks
- Learning correct police work
- How to get rewarded for certain things
- Control
Just under 9 months
- Tracking training starts – finding human scent
- Following scent pattern to get something at the end of it.
- Find property.
- Barking to say they have found someone.
- Chasing people –run up then just to bark. Then eventually be taught to bit
Refresher course
- Out as licence police dogs.
- Every year come back for one
week refresher
- One week re licensing
( tracking, chasing, finding)

10. Search and Rescue Dogs
• Find missing persons
• Search disaster areas for survivors
• Water, avalanche, wilderness, and disaster
rescue dogs
• Use their incredible sense of smell to find
people

11. Training
• Dog is taught to search for the scent and do
anything possible to get to it
• Play oriented
• When the dog finds the person, it is allowed
to play with a toy
• Toy is the reward
• Dog thinks of work as a game with a toy at the
end

12. Qualifications
• Need to have agility, intelligence, drive, work
ethic, and the ability to listen to the handler
• Temperament is one of the most important
traits when choosing a rescue dog
• Breed doesn’t matter
• 50-70 pounds is the ideal weight
• Must possess a great desire to play

13. Pros and Cons
• Save the lives of many
humans
• Can find survivors faster
and easier then humans
can
• Strong bond between the
dog and handler
• Fun and enjoyable for the
dog
• Dog gets a lot of exercise
•Can be mentally and
physically exhausting for the
dog
•Physically demanding and
dangerous
•Dog can become injured
and can die while on duty

14. Retirement
• Retire when they no longer have the physical
ability for the job
• Usually 8-10 years of age
• Most dogs continue to live with their handler
after retirement
• Dog has a happy, fun-filled retirement

16. Common Military Dogs
Doberman Pinchers German Shepherd
Labrador Retriever
Dutch shepherd
Belgian Malinois

17. Brief History
• Used in warfare by: Egyptians,
Persians,Greeks,Slavs,Britons,Romans,Spanish
Conquistadores
Great Molossian
•Greco-Roman
•Extinct

18. Military working dogs were and still are, classified
as “equipment”
• Germany military founded the first
training program for dogs in 1884
• WW1
• Germany:30,000
• France:20,000
• Italians:3,000
• America :0
• WW2
• Soviet union ‘anti-tank dogs’
• January 1942- “Dogs For Defense”
• Family dogs were called to duty

19. • Korean War
• Vietnam War
• 4,900 served
• 204 returned to the U.S
• 2,700 euthanized
• 1,600 turned over to the South
Vietnamese Army
• 10,000 lives saved
• Iraq
• Afghanistan

20. Chips
• Most decorated dog of World War II
• Purple Heart &Silver Star (Later on Revoked)
• German Shepherd-Collie-Husky mix
• Trained in Front Royal, Virginia, Chips served the 3d Infantry
Division in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany
• sentry dog.
• In 1943, he attacked a small fort and, in spite of receiving wounds
to the head, forced 4 Italian crew members to surrender. Later on
the same day, he helped capture 10 prisoners.

21. Facts
Robby’s Law-
• Passed in 2000
• allowing adoption of military
dogs by their handlers, law
enforcement agencies, and
civilians.
• 2,500-2,600 serve today
• 400 are retired yearly
• 150 lives are saved during a
military dogs service

22. •Should the Military use man’s
best friend as a resource in
Warfare?

23. Sentry
• an attack dog, guard dog, or watch dog.
• Warning signals such as : a growl ,bark or snarl
• Guard against & watch for unwanted or unexpected people
Scout
• Look for hidden booby trap trip wires, ambushes, weapons, snipers, mines.
• Highly trained to be quiet and disciplined
Messenger
• Sending messages
• Human messengers being to big of a target
Casualty
• Find the wounded, and dying on the battlefield
• Equipped with medical supplies

24. Training
• *HANDLERS MUST MAINTAIN CONTROL*
• undergo extensive temperament and physical evaluations.
Temperament:
• tested for gun shyness
• aggressiveness
• searching behavior
• Their physical examination includes: a blood test for heartworm
disease, radiographs of their hips and elbows and a thorough
physical examination from head to tail.
• basic obedience training
• advance training, which includes: controlled aggressiveness,
attack, and building and open area searches.
• During this training a dog is taught to find a suspect or hostile
person in a building or open area; to attack, without command,
someone who is attacking its handler; to cease an attack upon
command at any point after an attack command has been given.
Age:12-36 months

25. • Is it unethical to send a living entity into a life-
threatening situation when it couldn’t possible
give consent to do so?

26. Risk Factors
(Cons)
• PTSD- Post-traumatic stress
disorder
• Injury
• Arthritis
• death
Pros
• Sense of Smell
• endurance
• speed
• strength
• courage
• intelligence and
• The capability to adapt to almost
any climatic condition.

27. Retirement
• Age:7-8 years
done their service :
• Adoption
• Euthanasia

29. - hearing impaired – autistic people – Blind
* Alerting For Help
* Alerting the owner prior to a Seizure or Diabetics, epilepsy and other types of seizures
* Alerting the Owner when Insulin levels are changing
* Alerting when doors, Drawers and Refrigerators are open or closed
* Pick up dropped Items * Assist with mobility issues * Getting owner home safetly
* Letting Owner know there is a car, or when the owner is able to cross a Street
* Help with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
– people with Seizures, Diabetics, Epilepsy, Autism
* Helping with Dressing/undressing * retrieves Wheelchair or Walkers * Prevents Falls
- Healing Dogs(Therapy Dog)
- Emotional Support
dog
- Disable
people

30. - CNIB (canadian national institute blind) will adopted to new home
- Original Owner of Working Dog can keep them as a pet, along with their new working Dog
- Working Dogs normally retire at ( 8 – 10 years of age)
- Friend or Family adopt them
- Working dogs have play time when harness is off.
- When not working they can become a family pet.
- it is essential for play time, It keeps the bond strong between the person and
their working dog
Do Working Dogs work 24/7 ?
When a dog is working, you MUST ask permission to pet the dog, and you can NOT interact
with the dog until the person says other wise, the dog is busy guiding the person when the
Harness is on
- Return to the family that raised them as a puppy
Every time you're required for new dog, the person has to be retested, if they fail the testing
You do not receive a new dog

31. - Working dog must graduate from the school, if the dog doesn’t graduate they are put
up for adoption
- The person requiring for a working dog must graduate
from the school as well,
if they don’t they will not receive a working dog
- To receive a working dog, you must be approved
by your doctor and CNIB(Canadian national institute
blind)
- The training is aggressive, and hard, you are constantly
correcting the dog.
- After graduation of both dog and person, they under go testing to
matching of the dog and partner to make sure they are perfect for each
other.

32. Training Working Dogs
- The training of a puppy almost begins at birth through many socialization programs
- At 6-8 weeks puppies learn obedience and house manners
- Puppy raiser/Foster Parents, introduce the puppy to the world and get them use to people,
environment, sounds, smells , etc
At 15-18 months guild dog training starts, this takes 2-3
months
1- ½ to 2 years of age is when the partner and dog meet
- The partner and dog train together from 2 weeks – 28 days
- The training never stops though, they are always learning
- Puppy raiser/Foster parent has the puppy until they are 1 year old.
- At 1 year old, the dog returns to school
When they are training as a puppy they wear something that indicates
they are a future service dog

33. - CNIB (Canadian national institute blind) Maintains continuous contact with the graduates
and dogs, they help them through their lives together; if the person is moving, facing hard
times they come in and help
- Children 12 and under should not have service dogs, unless their parent/gardened
consents and takes responsibly for working dog
Children 16 and up do not need consent from the parent/ Garden to
qualify for working dog
Pro
- Go places you wouldn’t be able to go
- Companionship
- Feeling of security
- Become you’re other half
- Help deal with emotion problems
- Help with not being able to see or hear
- Life savers
Con
- Cost to keep them
- Cost of maintenance
- Cost of vets
- Animal not having a free life 24/7

34. Is it ethically right to make a dog work most of their life?
Is it ethically right to for a dog’s life to base around one person?
There are many Ethical questions with Guide/Therapy Dogs
I’m applying Utilitarianism to my beliefs of guide and therapy dogs.
Utilitarianism brings the greatest amount of happiness to the greatest amount
of people
- No Suffering
- Happy Dogs
- Attention
- Looked after better than average family dog
- Have down time, play time, normal dog time
- Using gifts for humans
- Apart of the pack
- Fussed over and loved

35. Pear breads, laboratory, golden retrievers, germen shepherd
are used for guild hearing and seeing dogs
The most successful type of working dog is a laboratory/ retriever. This is because it
combines many of the great traits of both breads together.
Common Breads of Working Dogs
- All of the above, Grey hound, Chihuahua, Poodle, French bulldog, Dachshund,
Pugs, Beagle, Yorkshire Terrier, shih tzu
Other types of dogs used for Therapy and Emotional dogs

36. - Jane and Bill Thornton started Canadian Guide Dogs for Blind in 1984
- The first Guide dog team graduated in July of 1984
- First litter of puppies born in CGDB (Canadian Guide Dog Blind) breeding
program in 1986
There is a small amount roughly 10,000 people use guide dogs in the US
and Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYywraEFY70.com

37. Monique would like to see CPP pay as a dependent for
working dogs.
- She only receives $76 a month from ODSP for Apple
- She wishes she could receive $230 a month for apple
instead, as the dog cost a lot
Monique Has been completely blind for 15 years, she has aggressive Glaucoma, and a nerve disease in
the eye; she can’t have surgery because of the disease. She received Apply at 1 ½ because she was a very
fast learner, Apple is now 7 ½ years old. She will retire at 10 years old. Monique would like to keep her as
a pet after retire, but after the dog retires they no longer pay for the dog, and Monique can’t afford her.
Apple has saved her life several times. Apple’s main function is being her eyes, helping across street,
getting her home, she can find Bus stops for Monique, she can find curbs, pot holes, she guides Monique
up stairs, anything the human eye does, Apple does for her. The only con of Apple is she doesn’t know
when to cross, so Monique has to use her ears to hear the traffic to decide when to go.
Apple understand French and English
Monique is none mama to Apple