I ran across this the other day and thought it quite ridiculous, as I'm sure the rest of my family will agree. Here's part of the article:
6-pound Chihuahua is Tiny Drug-finding Dog
CHARDON, Ohio - Though she’s only a 6-pound Chihuahua-rat terrier mix who looks like she belongs in Paris Hilton’s purse, Midge has the will, skill and nose of a 100-pound German shepherd.
The newest recruit for the Geauga County Sheriff Department’s K-9 unit could very well be the nation’s smallest drug-sniffing pooch.
McClelland began training Midge for drug-detecting duties when she was just 3 months old, after reading about departments being sued by suspects whose cars or homes were damaged by larger dogs.
Like many police departments, Geauga County has had German shepherds and Labrador retrievers for years. In fact, visitors often ask, “Is the big dog out?” — referring to 125-pound Brutus, says Lt. Tom McCaffrey, Brutus’ handler.
As for a Chihuahua-rat terrier like Midge working as a K-9, well, the president of the North American Police Work Dog Association, H.D. Bennett, says he’s never heard of a police dog so small it nearly fits in an outstretched palm.
That’s not stopping McClelland, who bought Midge from a co-worker’s relative and takes her everywhere with him — she even has a pair of goggles for rides on the sheriff’s motorcycle. On a recent day, she was curled in his lap, sporting a black “sheriff” vest over her brown-spotted white fur.
“She is very calm. She is not yappy. She likes people a lot, really loves kids,” he says as he strokes the dog.
Midge has helped boost the department’s relationship with the community. The tiny dog was grand marshal for a Memorial Day parade, wearing an American flag scarf while perched atop a motorcycle.
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