First used by Egyptians, Romans and Greeks for guard duty, tracking and attack.

During the middle ages dogs were armored and used as sentries.

Napolean used sentry dogs for military encampments.

The first American K9 Corps was developed in 1835 during the Seminole War. They were used for tracking.

In the early 1900’s police K9s were being used in Europe.

By the 1950’s police K9 Units were established in the United States for tracking and human detection.

K9s have served in both World Wars, Vietnam, and are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are being used for sentry work, explosive detection, and a select few are being used by Special Forces as Combat Trackers.

Bowie is a 3 year old BELGIAN MALINOIS (MAL-IN-WAH)

He is a Dual Purpose Narcotics Detector K-9

Bowie is double certified in detecting :CocaineMarijuanaMethamphetamineHeroin

Bowie was born in Holland and began training at a very young age.

By the age of 2, Bowie had obtained numerous European Titles for his obedience work.

Bowie then moved to the state of Indiana and finished out nearly another year of fine tune training, before being purchased by the MCSO.

In addition to narcotics detection, Bowie is also a certified patrol and tracking K-9

Bowie is certified in tracking, human scent detection, bite work and scene security.

This includes searching for lost or fleeing persons, wooded areas and structure searches.

Bowie’s sense of smell is 10,000 times more powerful than that of a human.

An example would be when you or I smell a pot of stew cooking, we smell it as a whole. Bowie smells each ingredient separately.

Bowie is trained to pick up the scent, and then follow the scent to its source.

Bowie is driven by his natural instinct to hunt, prey, play, fight and survival.

Bowie’s reward is his tennis ball and praise by his handler.

Bowie is a passive alert dog. This means that he sits or lowers his rear end when he alerts to the presence of narcotics.

Some K-9’s are aggressive when they alert. They typically paw or scratch at the area where narcotics are present.

Bowie is trained to first detect a human scent, then follow that scent to the source.

Once the source is found, I determine how to handle the situation at that time.

This is largely decided by the suspects actions. Bowie’s presence in most cases can persuade

the suspect into surrendering. But if the suspect does not cooperate, he is

trained to apprehend the suspect.