It very much depends on what agency the dog is/was working for. TSA or border customs agents would be conducting their inspections inside secured locations; they’re very unlikely to need an attack dog, but they do need a very highly trained dog to detect all manner of illicit shit.
the k-9 unit in your local home town police? they’re trained as generalists, with much lower training in any specific task. As such, they won’t have as broad of a detection capability as say a dedicated drug sniffing dog, or as skilled at tracking as, say, a cadaver dog, or be as useful in pursuits as, say, a patrol dog. But they’ll be capable in all of the roles and come with a significant advantage in that they’re fast to deploy because most will have dogs on duty around the clock, and virtually every agency has one in house.
They generally don’t.
Usually, what they do is go home to live with their handler’s family. Which- generally- they’re okay with.
But they’re still trained to attack on command and require someone who knows how to handle them to be around.
If they don’t live with their handlers, then they find another qualified person to take them in. (A trainer or similar, for example.
Used to be? They’d just euthanize them because dumping them in rescues was a great way to get some bad press.
They don’t train drug sniffing dogs as attack dogs, so no, they don’t attack on command.
It very much depends on what agency the dog is/was working for. TSA or border customs agents would be conducting their inspections inside secured locations; they’re very unlikely to need an attack dog, but they do need a very highly trained dog to detect all manner of illicit shit.
the k-9 unit in your local home town police? they’re trained as generalists, with much lower training in any specific task. As such, they won’t have as broad of a detection capability as say a dedicated drug sniffing dog, or as skilled at tracking as, say, a cadaver dog, or be as useful in pursuits as, say, a patrol dog. But they’ll be capable in all of the roles and come with a significant advantage in that they’re fast to deploy because most will have dogs on duty around the clock, and virtually every agency has one in house.
Also a great way to cause someone to have their their arm amputated, because they dont know how to handle a dog that was basically trained for war.
lol, well. Yes.
But you think they care about the arm?
No. They only care about the arm when it’s flopping around in Fido’s mouth and going viral in the news.
Yeah they would for sure only care about themselves as usual.