I could but with my driving skills the force’s insurance would probably take a big hit.

A fantastic wood track today from TPD Rip and Julian.

Chilli and TPD Reggie still in the early stages of getting to know each other. A small house line is used to make sure that TPD Reggie doesn’t irritate Chilli or annoy her too much

TPD Reggie’s trip to the range.

TPD Reggie says I can’t choose just take all of them.

Autumn vibes 🍁🍂🐾

Towards the end of our visit you could see that TPD Ronnie had stopped looking to Mary for support and was much more relaxed. On the way out he saw a few dogs and was totally relaxed about them. Well done TPD Ronnie

TPD Ronnie’s garden centre visit was an absolute pleasure. He loved all the attention and we had to force ourselves to have a coffee when he nodded off.

TPD Ronnie meets Santa. Mary has puppy walked for the force for a long time. Nowadays she tends to look after the younger pups when needed and this is an ideal venue to bring them when they are young.

It was a lovely garden centre but it was slow going because literally everyone wanted to say hello which was exactly why we chose this venue

TPD Ronnie was only 9 weeks old yesterday and isn’t fully inoculated until 3 weeks time. So we put him into a trolley so that he could explore the garden centre from a position of safety & security.

I was a bit concerned with TPD Ronnie when I visited him & Mary last week because he was a bit back offish and cautious. So I decided to visit him again yesterday. No problem this time and so we visited the local garden centre in Launceston.

Shane and TPD Axel giving an excellent example of searching for an article and retrieving to hand.

I’m not looking forward to TPD Odi leaving me on Friday because we do have a special bond particularly after living in each others pockets while he recovered from his broken leg. But having 2 months to now bond with his new handler Kenton has to be a good thing.

After tracking and searching at training on Sunday I gave the puppy walkers a demonstration on grooming with TPD Odi. This included the importance of getting their puppy used to being lifted, examined, and examination of teeth, ears, feet etc.

Probably the most important skill for an operational Police dog is the ability to track down offenders and missing persons. Our puppy walking teams start tracking with their pups as early as 12 weeks. TPD’s Milo, Axel & Inca are already progressing really well on tracking.

Yesterday at training we covered tracking work, article searching, releasing their toy on command, a demonstration with TPD Odi on grooming and some control work. Top left TPD Axel with Shane, bottom left TPD Inca with Mitzi, bottom right TPD Milo with Dave.

Only 3 of our gang of 5 yesterday for training as TPD Frank’s puppy walker Ben and TPD Kensa’s puppy walker Leianne were both on operational duty. Left to right TPD Axel with Shane, TPD Inca with Mitzi and TPD Milo with Dave.

Happy Halloween 👻🎃🦇

At 8 weeks TPD Reggie showing he is going to be a handful.