Another Toy Poodle Joins Japanese Police RanksBy Akiko Fujita
The name is Naomi. Naomi Yasuda. (hehe, this picture's owner ba. not the poodle.)
Police in Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture have enlisted a four-year-old toy poodle to join its crime-fighting ranks, joining a growing number of Japanese police departments that are taking on miniature canines.
Mochi passed his police dog exam last month, after six months of training. He is the third toy poodle to join the police ranks, but the first to be enlisted as a sniffer dog.
Kyoto police said that Mochi has been trained to detect drugs, explosives, and other odors, and will be used on a “case-by-case†basis for the next year.
Weighing less than 4 pounds, Mochi is considered small for a toy poodle, but his owner Naomi Yasuda says he has the smarts of larger, more traditional canines. He has already been trained as a therapy dog, and has spent the last few years providing affection and comfort to nursing home patients.
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