This isn\u2019t your average dog and pony show. <\/p>\n
The NYPD has released its Canine & Friends 2026 calendar with nearly 20 fur babies featured inside the book \u2014 many named in honor of fallen officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The annual calendar<\/a> is paid for with private funds through the non-profit New York City Police Foundation, and includes members from the Counterterrorism Bureau\u2019s Critical Response Command, the Emergency Services Unit, Mounted Unit and the Transit Bureau.<\/p>\n The Canine & Friends 2026 Calendar is the 10th edition of the annual furry delight. NYPD<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the 10th edition of the NYPD K-9 and friends calendar,\u201d said Taylor Kahn, the foundation\u2019s director of development. \u201cThis really highlights the work that NYPD officers are doing around the city to keep our city safe with their K-9 partners and of course the horses of the mounted unit.\u201d<\/p>\n The 13-month calendar includes 18 dogs and three horses.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s cover features Chase, Taso, Rett and Cato in Grand Central Station alongside their cop handlers.<\/p>\n March showcases Detective Katrina Narvaez with her K-9 Freddy<\/a>, named for her deceased dad, Lt. Federico Narvaez, who was killed in the line of duty in Brooklyn \u2014 fatally shot responding to a domestic incident in Flatbush in 1996 \u2014 when she was just 9 years old.<\/p>\n Narvaez became a cop to honor her dad\u2019s legacy and was ecstatic to be paired, 22 years later, with a wire-haired pointer\/Labrador mix at the Emergency Service Unit.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel honored that they let me name him after my dad,\u201d she told The Post back in April. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure if they were going to allow that. <\/p>\n Det. Katrina Narvaez is paired with her dog. Freddy, who is named for her father, who was killed in the line of duty. NYPD<\/p>\n One of the dogs featured in the calendar is K9 Diller, who was named for Detective Jonathan Diller, who was killed during a car stop in Queens last year. NYPD<\/p>\n \u201cIt meant a lot to me when they said that I could.\u201d<\/p>\n Freddy, 8, is a specialist in finding guns and anything that can explode, including potassium chlorate, C4, dynamite and other compounds. The duo works out of the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Red Hook, where ESU canines are based.\u00a0<\/p>\n May highlights K-9 Diller \u2014 named after Detective Jonathan Diller, a new father who was tragically gunned down during a car stop in Far Rockaway in March 2024<\/a> \u2014 and his handler Detective Anthony Marciano.\u00a0<\/p>\n Detective Brian Magoolaghan on his chestnut Mounted Unit horse Thor is featured in November. NYPD<\/p>\n K-9 Zadro is named for Detective James Zadroga, who died of 9\/11 illness. NYPD<\/p>\n One of the more striking pages in the calendar is a nighttime photo of K9 Ranger, a member of the NYPD\u2019s Counterterrorism Bureau, in front of the Freedom Tower. NYPD<\/p>\n August focuses on a half-dozen dogs and their handlers, including officer Antonia Ocasio with K-9 Taso, who was named in honor of Detective Anastasios Tsakos<\/a>, who was killed by a drunk driver that had spewed hatred for cops on a podcast. <\/p>\n December shows Transit Bureau K-9 Unit cop Michel Bellinger with K-9 Zadroga from the Detective Borough Manhattan South Homicide Squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n The pup is named after NYPD officer James Zadroga, whose 2006 death from 9\/11-related respiratory disease sparked the federal legislation that provides health care and aid for first responders and other victims of the terror attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n