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Axel
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Photograph of AxelHey there! My name is Axel, I am a German Shepherd and Rottweiler mix and very handsome, if I say so myself. I too am a partner of an FBI Special Agent in New York City--Noreen. She rescued me from the pound and put me to work for the FBI.

Noreen takes the best care of me, although she gets me up really early in the morning to go walking. I am not a morning dog. I'd like to sleep much later, but I love to walk with her. It keeps me in great shape, which I need to be if I am going to do my job well. And that is very important to me.

I am a certified Narcotics Detection Canine, which means that I can find drugs that the crooks have hidden. Drugs are very bad and I have to get them off the street. I can sniff drugs out with my nose. I can do this because every drug has its own smell. I know the smell of six different drugs--that's a lot.

Noreen asks me to search cars, trucks, airplanes, apartments, and houses for drugs. One time I found drugs hidden in the middle of a truck full of pineapples. Pineapples! That was a prickly job!

When I sniff out the drugs, I scratch the area where I smell them, and Noreen comes to get them. In 1997, I found a total of $25,000,000 worth of drugs--that's 25 million dollars, which would buy a lot of bubble gum! We were able to get them off the street. Noreen rewards me by letting me play with my towel (I know, I know. It doesn't sound like much fun, but I love it!) We play tug-of-war with it.

Every week I have to train to keep my skills finely tuned. Noreen tests me by hiding drugs in all kinds of weird places, then I have to find them. This helps me to do my job better. My favorite part of the job, though, is going to school and showing the kids and teachers how I do my stuff. Noreen explains to them what I am doing since I can't talk and work at the same time.

When my work day is over--and sometimes it is a very long day--I collapse in the back of Noreen's car and snooze. When we get home she plays with me and then feeds me dinner and, of course, dessert. Yum!

Rotating photographs of Axel a member of the U.S. Police k-9 Association, Inc.

  

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