Meet the retired K9 heroes!
Clara
Clara is a single purpose Explosive Detection Canine that served with the Department of Defense. Her primary mission was Force Protection of a secure DoD facility and on occasion assisting other federal and local agencies. On her down time Clara enjoys the beach and...
Hero
Text PAWSPACK39 to 71777 for K9 HeroHero is a black and brown German Shepherd with a broken left rear toe and a bent left ear. He will be turning 12 years old on Nov 9. Hero first started to work in April 2011 but unfortunately he developed PTSD due to a traumatic...
Cesar
K9 Cesar proudly served as an explosives detection canine for the United States Secret from July 2012 until retirement in May of 2020. During his tenure Cesar traveled all over the world and worked in just about every state. Cesar also enjoyed making appearance at...
Ringo
K9 Ringo spent seven years as an Explosive Detection K9! Ringo did an amazing job protecting Americans in war zones accumulating 10 deployments by the time he retired. His stellar nose helped find explosives in high stress and dangerous situations! K9 Ringo has earned...
Quigley
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Gary
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Lucas
Canine Lucas was born in Slovenia and made his way to the U.S. in 2012 at the age of one. He trained in Montgomery County, Maryland to do patrol work and explosive detection. Duringthe winter months he enjoys running through the snow and catching snowballs. In his...
Knox A
Knox is a Belgian Malinois who served as an explosives detection K9 for the United States Secret Service. He has traveled throughout the world and many campaign trips around theUS protecting our leaders. He was medically retired in Feb 2020 due to IVDD on his neck. He...
Lucy C
Lucy has been working since she was nine months old; she is a single‐purpose drug K9. Lucy has worked at Regan national airport and Dulles airport with the DEA for ten years working on drug indication. Lucy has also worked with the Fairfax county narcotics unitworking...
Rookie
Rookie (originally named Goldi, while working) has a very immature and loving temperament. He would rather hug humans than work, never the less, he made it through training. Over the course of a year, we deployed three times, for two months each, to the U.S. Embassy...
Buster
Buster is a dual purpose patrol/narcotics K9 from Slovenia who spent 9.5yrs withthe Fairfax County Police. During his career, Buster seized multiple narcotics and US currency, Locateda lot of evidence/property, assisted on warrant services, high risk traffic stops,...
Smith
Canine Smith was certified in explosive detection and tracking and served with the Pennsylvania State Police from 2013 until his retirement in early 2021. Canine Smith worked throughout the state of Pennsylvania at events such as Penn State Football games, NASCAR...
Dag
Dag 1 (Dag) was born April 12, 2010 at Lackland Air-force Base. According to his vet records, he has travelled to Ft. Bragg, Ft. Knox, and Yuma Arizona. He spent this time with the U.S. Army assigned as a TEDD Dog. From January 2012 to October 2012 he was deployed to...
Cubo
This is Cubu! I was assigned with Cubu in 2017 at Vance AFB until I separated from the Air Force in 2019. He is almost 8 years old! Cubu had surgery done in 2019 on his spine in his hind legs and was retired due to some bulging discs and lameness in his hind legs...
Belle
Belle has travel throughout her career in the middle and far East. In her spare time Bellelikes to chase butterflies and play in the snow. She has certified every year during her tour of service with the United States Police canine association. Belle’s favorite treat...
Kazan
US Border Patrol (Retired) K9 Kazan is a single purpose Patrol/Appehension K9. He was trained by the United States Border Patrol to assist agents in safely arresting Felony and Dangerouf High Risk suspects. Kazan was credited with apprehending 8 Violent Felony...
Europa
Europa started out her career training to be a guide dog, but was removed for excessive sniffing and scavenging. ATF’s Explosive Detection Program is Food reward based, so these two traits made her ideal for our program. Europa spent 6 weeks with the training staff...
Casey
Casey received his Explosive Detection K9 Certification from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF-E) in September of 2010. He has done protection details for nine of the Supreme Court Justices to also include the late SCJ Scalia and Former SCJ...
Phred
[give_donation_form id="14963" _builder_version="4.9.4" _module_preset="default"][/give_donation_form]This is Phred, a fun loving Lab that was raised in a female prison with the Puppies Behind Bars program. He has been an awesome partner and fun travel companion....
Lucy
Lucy is a mild mannered former explosives detection canine. During her career she was assigned to duties all over the Metro D.C. area as well as several tours of duty on overseas posts. Her favorite treats are any thing edible and her favorite downtime activity is...
Kenya
Kenya is a retired explosives detection canine from the Vapor Wake breeding program at Auburn University. She served for 3.5 years with the Amtrak Police Department before being medically retired in June 2020 due to health complications from anemia. Kenya and her...
Jaxon
Jaxon is a chocolate lab who was bred and trained at VW K9 in Anniston Alabama. He is a highly specialized vapor wake K9 trained to detect and trail the explosive odor in the plumes of a person. He has worked at Washington's Union Station and Baltimore's Penn Station...
Joker
Meet K9 Joker, he is a Belgian Malinois trained in explosives detection that has served in the United States Secret Service protecting our leaders and the leaders of other countries around the world for the last 6 ½ years. He has traveled throughout the world and has...
Dozer
Dozer is a German Shepherd who served as a dual purpose K9 for the city of Pleasantville. He specialized in narcotics detection and patrol tactics until his retirement. He enjoys hanging out in the backyard, swimming in the pool and supervising the...
Pista
Pista is a big, sweet, and goofy Belgian Malinois until it’s time to go to work. He began his career in the US Army completing Tactical Explosives Training. He was deployed to areas such as Forward Operating Base Bagram in Afghanistan among others. Upon returning to...
Ciko
Ciko was born in the Netherlands and imported to the US. After his arrival he completed a rigorous 16 week patrol training program and and additional 12 week scent detection program. After completion on his extensive training he went to work of the city of...
Chad
Chad originally began his life as part of the Guiding Eyes Seeing Eye Dog program but it was quickly discovered he was not a good fit. After flunking out he was picked up by another organization. His aptitude for scent work was quickly discovered and he soon excelled...
Uu2 N717
MWD Uu2 N717 served as an explosive detection and patrol military working dog for the United States Navy from June 2010 through October 2019. She was assigned to Headquarters Naval District Washington. MWD Uu2’s overseas deployments included Honduras and The Horn of...
Duke
Born in June 2011, Duke served as a Military Working Dog in the US Air Force from December 2012 to April 2020. He was trained as a dual purpose K9 in both patrol work and explosives detection. He went on two deployments and dozens of missions throughout his career....
Oonyx
Oonyx was born at Joint Base Lackland in San Antonio, TX in 2007 as part of the Department of Defense Puppy Program. She was part of the "O" litter which explains her beautifully unique name. She was then transferred to the Department of Homeland Security and trained...
Jäger
K9 Jäger was born in 2012 in Slovakia and brought to the United States to be a working K9. After his initial training, he began working as a Police Service Dog with the Albuquerque Police Department (Albuquerque, NM) in 2015. Jäger was a certified single purpose...
Morgan
Morgan is a 10 year old Black Lab who served 8 years as an explosives detection K9 for the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) in Washington DC. The MTPD is the policing agency of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and unique in U.S. law...
Bob
At 6 months old Bob's breeders donated him and his litter mates to Puppies Behind Bars, a program in the NY prison system which trains puppies for wounded warriors and explosive detection. After 6 months at the Orange County Correctional Facility in NY working with...
Rika
Rika is a German Shepherd who served as a Dual Purpose Patrol and Narcotics detection K9 in New Jersey. Her nose and tracking skills were well known in the communities she served. Not long after retirement, Rika began experiencing unexplained weight loss losing a very...
Maggie
Maggie is a former Secret Service K9 who spent her career protecting Americans in the Washington DC metro area. She is retired now and living out the remainder of her days with her family and former handler. As she aged, Maggie has developed a medical condition called...
Brodie
Brodie served as an Explosives Detection K9 with the Federal Reserve Police Department in Washington DC for 8 years. The favorite part of his workday was always riding into work and/or getting rewarded with his tennis ball. He retired just days prior is 10th birthday....
Xxylon
Xxylon is an eight-year-old chocolate Labrador who has seen (and sniffed) a lot in his canine career. He began his training in June 2011 and was assigned to his first handler working in Anchorage, Alaska, as a police dog a few months after that. As Xxylon's training...
Max
Max is a dual purpose German Shepherd that was certified in both patrol and narcotics detection. He was a proven and valuable K9 that had an exemplary career with the Fairfax County Police Department for 8 years including 7 years as a SWAT K9. Max was 9 ½ yrs old and...
Nico
Nico was born in April 2010 and began his career as an explosives detection K9 in 2011. Nico served with the United States Secret Service from 2011 until his retirement in December of 2019. Nico and his handler traveled all over the United States and on numerous trips...
Kima
Kima is a female, black German Shepherd that was procured from Vohne Liche Kennels in Denver, Indiana. She traveled back to the location on several occasions during her career. Kima served our country as an explosives detection K9 working for the US Pentagon for 8+...
Dover
Dover was born January 20th, 2008 and began her career as part of the Puppies Behind Bars program. She went on to become an certified explosives detection canine and retired from the US Marshals Service in January 2018 after 8 1/2 years of dedicated service. Dover...
Diesel
K9 Diesel is a dual purpose German Shepherd that worked for the Town of Herndon for 6 years. He was certified in patrol and narcotics detection. According to his Dad, his favorite treats besides human food are Greenies. During his downtime he likes to play with his...
Oakley
Oakley is a chocolate Lab that was born and trained at Auburn University. Oakley was the first class of Vapor Wake K-9s to serve the U.S. Capitol. Oakley excelled at explosives ordinance detection work and loved working around people. The only thing Oakley enjoyed...
Ammo
"Ammo is a 10-year old black lab. He served with the US Capitol Police K-9 unit from July 2011 until his retirement on April 29, 2016, my retirement date. He was an explosive detection K-9. Ammo developed digestive issues during his time on the unit. He was treated...
Kuli
Kuli is a German Shepherd who served our country in the United States Air Force with the 4th Security Forces Squadron. As a military working dog he traveled the world with his handler keeping our soldiers. He's retired now and lives with his mom, dad and little...
Hero
"Hero is a Belgian Malinois who served our country as an explosives detection K9. His mission was to provide a safe & secure environment for individuals & locations protected by the U.S. Secret Service. He accomplished this by sniffing for bombs and other...
Knox
Knox started his career in the USMC. He traveled to Afghanistan and did one tour in the summer of 2011. After returning from deployment he was released by the USMC. It was at this time his future handler drove to North Carolina and adopted Knox. This is how Knox began...
Duffy
Duffy served 7 years with the federal government as an explosives detection K9. Duffy was originally breed to be a seeing eye service dog but was purchased by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) when he decided he didn't want to be a seeing eye dog. His...
Nitro
Nitro is a male Belgian Malinois that served 9 years as an apprehension K9 for the Secret Service. Nitro traveled the world extensively to help protect the Presidents of the United States. He was a force to be reckoned with winning the 2015 K9 Olympics competing...
Barry
K9 Barry served for four years as an apprehension K9 with the Secret Service Emergency Response Team. He has worked many countless hours and travels extensively supporting two presidents. His favorite treats include peanut butter and dog Oreos. He is enjoying his...
Jojo
JoJo V473 is a 7 year old German Shepherd from Europe and has served his whole time as an Air Force Military Working Dog as a PEDD, patrol explosive detector dog. He has been deployed overseas two times too different locations and been on countless POTUS, VPOTUS, and...
Harriet
Harriet is a yellow Labrador Retriever who protected our country both domestically and on foreign soil. She served 8 years as a police K9 for the federal government performing explosives detection here in the United States as well as in Afghanistan and Iraq! Harriet...
Pano
Pano is a 7-year-old Belgian Tervuren. His birthday is on July 26, 2012. Pano served in the United States Secret Service (USSS) from September 2013 until he was honorably retired on March 2019. Pano was trained for single purpose, explosive detection and served with...
Banjo
Banjo is a product of Auburn University’s Explosives Detection Canine Program located in Anniston Alabama. He spent the first 18 months of his life at Coffeyville Prison as part of the Prisoners and Pups program. During this time Banjo was subjected to basic...
Buckley
K9 Buckley started with the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department in the Spring of 2005 and retired in October, 2008. After his retirement, he was certified as a therapy dog and started visiting Kensington Nursing and Rehab, where he has made many friends. He...
Jardan
Jardan is a male Belgian Malinois who served with the United States Secret Service (USSS) as a SWAT K9 trained in apprehension. He received the DHS Valor Award for his service to his country. Born April 10th, 2010 in the Netherlands his career with the Secret Service...
Jack
Born in September of 2009, Jack served as an explosives detection K9 with the United Stated Capitol Police in Washington DC. Jack retired in 2019 and will live our his retirement years with his former handler and family.
Tomas
"K9 Tomas is a Belgian Malinois, who was born in Hungary on November 14, 2010. He worked for five years with the Department of Defense as an explosive detection K9. He searched an estimated 100,000 vehicles in his career. Tomas along with his handler were able to...
Kiwi
"K9 Kiwi retired from the US Secret Service on September 28, 2019, after 7+ years of service as an Explosives Detection K9. Kiwi provided protection for the President, Vice President, many foreign dignitaries, The Pope, and more. Kiwi is a Dutch Shepherd, born on...
Maggie S
Maggie served her country as an explosives detection K9 with the United States Transportation Administration (TSA).
Denali
“Denali is a male Yellow Labrador Retriever who is 9 years was born August 9, 2010. He served the US military and deployed for the United States Marine Corps before he came to work with me at the US Capitol Police as an explosive detection K9. I became his handler in...
Nero
K9 Nero is a German Shepherd who was born in the Czech Republic on April 20, 2007. He was certified in explosive detection and partnered with Police Officer Porigow from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department. Officer Porigow and Nero were...
Xxola
Xxola is a female, black, Labrador retriever and was born on May 18, 2007 at Lackland Airforce Base. She was part of the TSA puppy program and was specifically bred for explosive detection work. This program was part of the National Explosive Detection Canine Team...
Frisco
K9 Frisco is a 9 year old, male Labrador Retriever. Frisco was trained in explosives detection and retired from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in March of 2019. Frisco will live out his retirement with his former handler and family.
Bubba
Welcome retired K9 Bubba. Bubba is a 9 year old Belgian Malinois and retired military working dog from the United States Navy. She protected us, our service members, and her handler while deployed overseas. Bubba will now live out her retirement with her former...
Llanger
LLanger was born on January 7, 2012 at Lackland Airforce Base. He was part of Homeland Security’s National Explosive Detection Canine Team Program (NEDCTP), one of the last of the puppy program. I first meet LLanger in 2013 during our 10 weeks of training at...
Rayco
Rayco served the US military deployed to Afghanistan before he became a US Capitol Police explosive detection K9.
Gento
Gento is a former explosives detection K9 who served our country with the Secret Service protecting our President and other government officials.
Niko
K9 Niko is an 8 year old German Shepherd. He retired from the Prince William County Virginia Police Department in April 2019. Niko is enjoying his retirement and will live out his life with his handler and family . To make a donation to the medical care...
Dutchess
K9 Dutchess entered into Paws of Honor in 2016, after she officially retired as an Explosive Detection Canine with the Federal Government. To make a donation to the medical care of Dutchess or any of our other retired...
Dante
Dante was partnered with Officer Yost and began working for the Prince William County Police Department in December 2008. The K9 team was certified by the United States Police Canine Association (USPCA Region 3). Dante and his handler were credited with numerous...
Charlie
Charlie was born January 08th, 2008, and served in the US army from 2009- August of 2013. According to his military K-9 handler, Charlie conducted over 300 missions in Afghanistan with no death or injuries to US personnel. During Charlie’s Army service he had injured...
Oscar
K9 Oscar retired from the Secret Service on November 1, 2015, at age 10, after 8 years of explosives detection service including Presidential Detail and Special Events. The government, “having determined that the cost of its care and handling is so great…” transferred...
Capa
CAPA was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for meritorious service while serving as an explosive/patrol working dog, security detachment, fleet activities, Yokosuka from March 2008 to April 2016. Demonstrating exceptional dedication, Capa completed...
Bak
MWD (Retired) Bak is a 10-year-old German Shepherd who was purchased in 2006 by the 341st Security Forces Squadron for the Joint Services Military Working Dog Program. He was certified as a Patrol Drug Detector Dog on September 2007 and was assigned to Fort Benning,...
Gina
Retired K9 Officer Gina is an explosive detection dog. She worked for the United States Secret Service from 2008 until 2017. Gina has traveled to 18 countries and countless states and cities in support of both the Obama and Trump Presidential administrations. In April...
Freida
Freida retired in 2013 and joined Paws of Honor in 2016.
Kubo
Kubo served as a tactical canine for the US Secret Service from 2008 to 2016. He helped in providing a tactical response to potential threats at the White House, Camp David and many other protective venues both foreign and domestic.
Nip
Nip joined Paws of Honor in February 2016.
Harris
Retired K9 Harris joined Paws of Honor March 2016. This is Harris getting ready to enjoy a marinated and grilled steak made by his handler for him for his retirement. Harris is a black lab that came from puppies behind bars. Harris and I were teamed up together in...
Senna
"I bought Senna home on September 10, 2013. She was certified as an explosive detection canine and we graduated training on November 30, 2013. On a daily basis, we swept vehicles at the access points for different secure locations. We also patrolled and performed...
Maggie
Maggie was born on 4/28/13. During her first year, she was raised in a program called Puppies Behind Bars which raises the puppies to become explosive detection canines. When Maggie was 14 months old, she was picked up by the ATF and enrolled in their program. 16...
Boris
Boris served his country for over 8 years by working as an Explosives Detection Canine for the US Government both domestically and overseas. He retired in November 2014 and now gets to stay home, relax, and watch over his human baby brother.
Buddy
Explosive Detection: Loudon County Sheriff’s Dept. Breed: Labrador Retriever Age: 13 Brag: Worked Events for President Obama/Vice President Biden, multiple Senators, Congressmen, and other VIPs Quirk: Not a fan of affection with abandonment issues. It’s...
Moris
Moris is my retired Tactical Explosive Detection Dog (TEDD). I was handed his leash in July 2012 and underwent 9 weeks of fast-paced handler training. We were certified as a TEDD team on 21 September 2012. Altogether, we served 2 years as a TEDD team in Hawaii and a...
Ogden
Ogden was born 11/2015 and started in the seeing eye dog program. He failed out of the seeing eye dog program when he growled playing tug with people, even though that’s something he always does when he plays. Ogden was then sent to the ATF to be trained as an...
Cody
was"Cody and I met at the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) K9 Training Facility in Front Royal, Virginia in March 2011. Cody started off as a hunting dog in Canada then was purchased by ATF in 2009 from a breeder in Florida. Originally, he was trained as...
Baxter
Baxter was born in September of 2007 and served his country until 2011. He is a BATF trained Explosive Detection K9. He has done a lot in his career from traveling the world protecting U.S. Interests, traveling with and protecting Government VIP’s, working sporting...
Remi
K9 Remi was born in Europe on February 14, 2010. He was purchased by Castle’s K9 and shipped from Slovakia to the United States on February 8, 2011. On February 11, 2011, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office purchased Remi and he was partnered with Master Deputy Perry...
Ciela
U.S. President Barack Obama waves at people in a bank vestibule after he and Vice President Joe Biden (not pictured) bought lunch at a sandwich shop near the White House in Washington, October 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Ciela’s a sweet near 13-year-old Malinois....
Ringo
K9 Ringo was born in 2003 served the US Government until 2009. He was trained and certified in explosives detection and patrol dog duties. He now lives at home with his handler’s family and spends his days monitoring neighborhood cats and stealing food from...
