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For Christmas one year I put lights on his little saddle, which is what I called his harness.

When I wasn’t looking the chief took this pic below and posted it on his official twitter page.
It got 485 comments, 1,057 shares, and over 14,000 likes within a week.

For what it’s worth, I probably had more fun with
my dog than the average K9 handler did,
especially in the category of picture taking. Most
K9 handlers took only a fraction of photos of their
dogs that I did.

For our first Christmas together, I found some real jingle bells – the big silver ones for horses – and I put them on Kilo’s working
harness. On the Friday before winter break, we went into the high school cafeteria during lunch and even though it was pretty
noisy with several hundred kids there eating and talking, everybody heard the loud jingle bells when Kilo trotted in; you can
imagine all the heads turning! For the record, jingle bells on a trotting dog sounds pretty cool. We also toured the three floors
of City Hall with the jingle bells; a good way for a handsome dog to endear himself even more to all his fans. However a couple
of my coworkers were somewhere between aghast and in general disbelief that I put jingle bells on the police dog- they would
have never been able to even imagine such a thing themselves and they considered the whole idea completely ridiculous. I had
no regerts. And Kilo didn’t care, either. The way I saw it, we were winning hearts and minds.
It wasn’t all fun and games though – Kilo was a working dog!

Here we are getting ready to participate in a drug raid on a doper’s house. Our job was to go in after the place was cleared of
bad guys and Kilo would look for hidden stashes of drugs.

And here we are at the Bremerton Police Department, to sniff some seized currency and establish a drug-related nexus so the
cash could be seized and forfeited from some drug dealer.