The Sheriff: Changing Our Community With A Drug Dog
By Tristan
Sheriff Fyock wants to protect teens from illegal drugs in the small town of Indiana, PA. The Sheriff's new drug dog, Bak, is helping him accomplish this goal. Bak is a young dog. He is black and brown. Recently, Bak was at the Indiana Fair and people got to see him.
Sheriff Fyock wanted to be a sheriff so he could make improvements to the office. One improvement is the use of dogs to help police officers do their jobs better. Sheriff Fyock says if something doesn't seem right, Bak acts on his own. However, Bak is not trained to patrol by himself he has to be with a human police officer.
This is Sheriff Fyock’s first drug dog; his last two dogs were bomb dogs. His first dog got cancer, the second dog was too aggressive, and now Bak is his third dog. Bak detects many different kinds of illegal drugs: heroin, methadone, cocaine, and prescription drugs like oxycodone. Sheriff Fyock says, “I personally trained with the dog.” Both the sheriff and Bak learned throughout the training how to detect drugs through repetition.
The dog lives in Sheriff Fyock’s basement in a cage, but he doesn’t stay there all the time. Mrs. Fyock says, “If Bob isn't here, Bak barks to protect me.” Mrs. Fyock likes having Bak in her home because she says, “I like dogs. He is fluffy and I like to cuddle him.”
Bak is a tool for Sheriff Fyock to help out teens by keeping them safe from illegal drugs. Bak and Sheriff Fyock have helped the community by stopping the use of illegal drugs.
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