{"id":246316,"date":"2026-04-01T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:22:09","slug":"merced-county-sheriffs-office-welcomes-new-k9-to-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/246316\/","title":{"rendered":"Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office welcomes new K9 to the force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByAlex Ruiz  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, April 1, 2026 5:54AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Merced County Sheriff's Office welcomes new K9 to the force\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is adding a new member to its family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A two-year-old German Shepherd will now become part of their decades-old K9 team, which now consists of nine dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Photojournalist Alex Ruiz takes us behind the scenes on training day.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByAlex Ruiz Wednesday, April 1, 2026 5:54AM MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The Merced County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[110109,112,114,113,110108,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-246316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-110109","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-merced-county-sheriffs-office-welcomes-new-k9-to-the-force","13":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}