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Esmonds Will of
Steel TD, CGC
Winhall,
Vermont, certified Narcotics Detection Dog
News...
Lucy
and Steel spent 3 weeks with Randy Hare of Alpha K9 in Mississippi and
Steel is
now certified to search for Heroin, Cocaine, Methamphetamines and Marijuana! |
Steel
is our self-designated "Police Dog" from the Yngo/Nova Litter.
Steel
is already certified for narcotics searches, and passed his AKC
Tracking Test.
He's
hoping that apprehension training is next!!!
Steel
lives with Dugan, Esmonds
Sixth Sense CGC
Wilderness Search & Rescue
K9, NAPWDA Cadaver Detection Dog
and he also has a GSD squeeky
toy named Calix (that's Calix's truck, below)
His
dream since puppy-hood was to become K-9 officer for the Winhall,
Vermont Police Department.
He
can't wait for the cruiser to be HIS!
Steel
at 17 months.
Steel in
his pool.
C'mon Mom!
Put the tracking harness on me!!!
Steel passing
the AKC Tracking Test with ease! Hold on Lucy!!!
Lucy and Steel
are a great team!
Baby Steel
thinking he's King of the World!
Steel's
story is a funny one. When the litter was 4 1/2 weeks old,
Lucy Newton came for a visit with Nova's brother, Dugan.
Part
of her visit was to talk about whether we thought our future
breeding plans might produce her next police dog.
Lucy's
current K9 is Calix, a GSD, and we spent a lot of the week talking
about the pros and cons of a Rottweiler as her working dog.
Meanwhile,
our little Steel boy was listening and he had plans of his own!
Tiny
baby Steel was Lucy's shadow during her visit.
Everywhere
she'd go, he'd follow. She was never out of his sight.
He
only wanted Lucy and no one but Lucy!
By
the last day of her visit, Lucy had snapped this photo.
Of
course, she still swore that she did NOT need a puppy right now and
went home to Vermont.
During
the next few weeks, people who actually had been waiting for this
litter came and went.
Each
time, Steel was friendly, but always kept his distance in a "By
the way, I already have an owner" kind of way.
Fast
forward three weeks, and Lucy again made the drive up from Vermont.
Steel
was VERY happy to see her again and, of course, it didn't hurt that,
by now, he'd
already
learned to recall on the words: "Who wants to be a Police Dog?"
Lucy
and I performed many extensive Police Dog Evaluations (ie. fun puppy play)
and
eventually Steel proved to us without a shadow of the doubt that he
was indeed "The One".
He
even tried to convince us that he would win the Iron Dog competition someday!
So,
Calix gave him his approval (Dugan was not as sure there needed to
be another Rottweiler!),
and
off they went...
Like any young
Rookie, Steel can't wait to finish training so he can be promoted
from his "Desk Job"!
Baby Steel vs.
the Kleenex box!
Click HERE
to see Steel and his littermates growing up.
Steel one
year after his original pumpkin patch shoot.
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