One charity is stepping up to help, with a support dog, for this embattled police force. WASHINGTON — US Capitol Police has been through a lot of stress this year. Three of its officers died in the line of duty and it faces congressional investigations into its actions during the January insurrection. One charity is stepping up to help – with a support dog – for this embattled police force. California charity CCPSD found a way to repurpose dog training to be guide dogs for the visually impaired who didn’t make the cut and give them to police stations as

Recognizing Webb’s therapy dog program.

Riverside County sheriff’s bloodhound Maggie Mae with Deputy Coby Webb. Maggie Mae, the department’s first bloodhound, died Wednesday of old age. An award-winning bloodhound that worked on some of the most notable cases in Southern California, and whose tracking abilities were recounted in magazines and television, has died. Maggie Mae, the first bloodhound hired by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, was taken on her bed to a veterinary hospital by a team of sheriff’s K-9 handlers after she couldn’t get up on her own the morning of Wednesday, May 2, her partner Lt. Coby Webb said by phone. She was

Dr. Coby Webb has been training bloodhounds since 1999. (Courtesy of John Brice Photography) Dr. Coby Webb has been a law enforcement officer in Southern California since 1993. In 1999, she started training bloodhounds at her agency, and in 2003, she became an instructor. For Webb, her bloodhounds make all the difference when looking for the missing, and tracking criminal suspects. Webb described the training process for bloodhounds as a game of hide and seek. They begin training the dogs when they’re 8 weeks old, and teach them to chase someone who starts to run. Then, the trainer starts adding turns so the dog

It’s the worst nightmare type of scenario — your child goes missing, or an elderly parent disappears. While nothing can diminish that initial panic, police officers now have a new method that could help find missing persons faster, using simple gauze pads and a bloodhound.  A bloodhound’s nose is simply amazing. A few sniffs of a personal object and the bloodhound hones in on a scent trail. City streets, with all their human distractions, have little effect on the bloodhound’s singular drive: to find a missing person in a big chaotic world. “There’s a lot of wind, there’s a lot

Two bloodhounds help Riverside County Sheriff with some of its toughest cases. Windy and Copper, two dogs from Riverside County Sheriff’s bloodhound unit, train to track scents in Idyllwild. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun On a foggy September morning in Idyllwild, Copper the bloodhound presses his nose into a black baseball cap and inhales deeply. He finds a perfect clue, naked to the human eye, and it beckons him down a hiking trail, across a dry creek bed, and up a small hill that leads into an empty field. Copper howls. He’s got the scent. “Go to work!” shouts Cpl. Todd Garvin.

Picture Description: Deschutes County Sheriff’s OfficeDeschutes County Sheriff’s Deputy Donny Patterson and his partner, bloodhound K-9 Copper, have earned a national certification BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Copper, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office’s tracking bloodhound K-9, and his partner, Deputy Donny Patterson, just went through some challenging training and have earned a special national certification. Here are the details in a release Wednesday from sheriff’s Sgt. Jayson Janes: K-9 “Copper” (named by the residents of Deschutes County) was donated to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office in 2019 by Tamaron Ranch Bloodhound Kennels in Chowchilla, California. This amazing donation was coordinated by