A Long Time Coming...Playing Hide and Seek With a K-9

Okay, so blogging is a weakness of mine...okay, a BIG weakness of mine. I'll work on it...okay, I'll try and work on it.

So I've become the reporter who got scared and hid from a yellow lab. Everywhere I go now, I hear "I saw you hiding from that dog," or some joke, "Why'd you run from that dog? Were you too scared of the attack dogs?" To which I reply, "Yes! And you should be too!" So maybe I don't go that far, but I do like to share with people about how fun it was working with the Taylor County Sheriff's Department, and their new K-9 "TJ."

First of all, TJ is not "that" kind of dog, he's not trained to attack or chew my arm off, in fact quite the opposite. When I first met TJ, I was surprised to see the Sheriff's Office using a Yellow Lab, instead of a German Shepard, but apparently it's not that uncommon to use other breads. I learned that Labs are perfect for searching out scents and narcotics. Which is exactly what the TCSO wanted to use, a K-9 to detect drugs.

So what's next, chihuahuas hunting down armed suspects? Well maybe not, but think of the possibilities! That little dog would yap, at the gunman until they give in. No offense, to Chihuahua owners, I'm sure they're fine dogs and very loyal, but come on, they do yap a lot.

All of this is to say, my night playing hide and seek with TJ was a lot of fun, and I'm very grateful I didn't get my arm turned into a chew toy.