Posted June 23, 2015 11:36 am by Comments

By Vanessa Torres

Pennsylvania Game Commission to Showcase K-9 Unit Field Training
Pennsylvania Game Commission to Showcase K-9 Unit Field Training
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Pennsylvania Game Commission

Pennsylvania -(Ammoland.com)- The Pennsylvania Game Commission is giving media members a chance to “go to the dogs.”

On Friday, June 26, the Game Commission will showcase its new K-9 unit, a recently formed team of three dogs and three handlers that began its field training last month. This is a media event and is not open to the general public. This news advisory is for your planning purposes only, and is not intended for distribution.

A brief video from the first training session can be seen at the PAGameCommission YouTube page.

The K-9 unit is comprised of Labrador retrievers Storm, handled by Wildlife Conservation Officer Larry Hergenroeder; Gunner, handled by Wildlife Conservation Officer Derek Daly; and Skye, handled by Wildlife Conservation Officer Dave Allen.

The dogs still are puppies, and have just begun to learn the skills they’ll be putting to work in the field. But by fall, they’ll be ready to assist in investigations that require detection of evidence, searches for illegally taken wildlife or tracking of suspects.

The media event will be held at the Game Commission’s K-9 training course at Haldeman Island, …read more

Source:: AmmoLand

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