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Apollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). [4] In 1994, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Apollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999.
One of numerous dog stars of the silent era, Thunder was among a "wave of German Shepherds" that came to the United States in the years following World War I. [10] He and his entire breed at that time were commonly referred to in the American film industry and elsewhere as "police dogs", an identification reportedly dating to 1904, when German police departments began using the Deutscher ...
Silver Streak (often followed by the title King of Dog Stars, [1] The Dog of Wonder [2] or The Wonder Dog; [3] 1924 [4] – unknown) was a male German Shepherd that starred in motion pictures. He was a police dog with a long pedigree, the last in a great line that appeared in film, and considered to be Universal's attempt to rival the success ...
Trakr (c. 1994 – April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. German breed of shepherd dog Dog breed German Shepherd Adult male Other names German Shepherd Dog Alsatian Alsatian Wolf Dog Deutscher Schäferhund Altdeutsche Schäferhunde Origin Germany Traits Height Males 60–65 cm (24–26 in) Females 55–60 cm (22–24 in) Weight Males 30–40 kg ...
German Shepherds are known to be loyal, courageous, and intelligent, which makes them a great dog for families and for complex training regimens required by working dogs like service or police ...
In the middle of the last century, the supposedly vicious breed was thought of as the German Shepherd, likely due to their association as police dogs and prison guard dogs of the Germans in World ...
These methods soon spread to Austria-Hungary and Germany; in the latter the first scientific developments in the field took place with experiments in dog breeding and training. The German police selected the German Shepherd Dog as the ideal breed for police work and opened up the first dog training school in 1920 in Greenheide. [14]