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In this photo, one of the sneaky instructors hid some drugs up near the ceiling in an old school, with the intention of making
sure the dogs got as close as possible to the source before giving their final alert; in this case, from the top of a desk instead of
the floor was the desired place for the dog to wind up.

And another site - my favorite – was a vacant super giant old Masonic retirement home built in 1926; it had had well over a
hundred rooms that included living units, common areas, theatres and chapels, a boiler room, woodshop, hallways, stairwells,
and the place was just HUGE; 7 floors high. Probably haunted too; I don’t know that I would have liked to be there at night. The
training instructors hid drugs all over that place for the k9 handlers to play hide and seek with.

Other training sites included empty houses, car lots, and decommissioned publics schools, which were pretty much exactly like
what you might imagine they’d look like: dark hallways, lots of dusty classrooms, (some stuffed full of chairs and desks) and
giant old gymnasiums, cafeterias, and boiler rooms. Another training site was a summer camp church resort, with an old lodge
and lots of little cabins on a lakefront.

The trainings usually included officers from Seattle PD, and King County sheriff’s deputies. Cops from other cities around there
also participated; Fife PD, Auburn PD, Puyallup PD, Edmonds PD, Federal Way PD, and others, to name a few.