are still active<\/a>\u00a0in the tournament:<\/p>\nK9 Maverick – Charlotte County<\/p>\n
K9 Pepperjack – Gulf County<\/p>\n
K9 Goose – Highlands County<\/p>\n
K9 Remington – Lee County<\/p>\n
K9 Beau – Okaloosa County<\/p>\n
K9 Scout* – St. Johns County<\/p>\n
K9 Ozi – Santa Rosa County<\/p>\n
K9 Rigby – Escambia County<\/p>\n
Voting is set to close on March 31 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
Meet the mutts<\/p>\n
K9 Ruger is golden in more ways than one. This boy is getting up there in years, now eight years old and approaching retirement this summer, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. He currently specializes in finding missing people, but used to sniff out narcotics.<\/p>\n
K9 Scout* (yes, the asterisk is part of his name) is a German Wirehaired Pointer and is trained in sniffing out narcotics. He joined the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office’s Youth Resource Division in 2024 and works to keep schools and students safe.<\/p>\n
The Clay County Sheriff’s Office says 6-year-old detention K-9 Harold plays a vital role on the team. When he’s not patrolling the human kennels, he likes to chomp on his favorite toys: a Kong or a tennis ball.<\/p>\n
Next time you are walking along the Flagler Beach Boardwalk and see a fin poking out of the ocean, say hi to K-9 Mako! The sheriff’s office says that the nearly two-year-old is a dual-purpose pup, trained in both patrol and narcotics detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep your favorite furry friend free from elimination! The Florida Sheriff’s Association announced that round two\u00a0of its K9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,45740,7088],"class_list":["post-207832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriff39s-office","tag-manatee-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}