CENTRAL INDIANA K9 ASSOCIATION, INC

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Shadow fund
When a working dog is retired from duty, they remain faithful.

Medical costs from unexpected injuries, disease, or illness shouldn’t stop us from being faithful to them.  The Shadow Fund is a medical grant program to benefit the retired working military and police dog.

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K9 TRAINING
Their human partners create innovative ways to maintain their dog’s fitness and abilities, often driving for hours, then setting up, training, tearing down, and driving home.

We want to help the officers help their partners by providing training opportunities, and a centrally located training facility.

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MEMORIAL SERVICE
There is no greater gift than one who lays down his life for another.

Every bit the soldier and officer, these K9s will be remembered in loving tribute with a War Dog Monument, and are eligible for a memorial service with all expenses paid, and a full honor service.

K9 TRAINING EVENTS

CIK9 has offered quarterly training opportunities since 2020.  In addition to providing training for K9 teams in Central Indiana, we are happy to promote your training event at no charge!

All K9 training workshops can be found on our website so you don’t have to search all over the internet for them!

Check out some of our past events:

K9 Intensification,  Behavior conditioning and Tabletop Aggression, Scent training, High Risk Deployment

CIK9 Training Events

Working dogS IN ACTION

Across Central Indiana are 62 law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels with 190 active K9 teams and growing.

Working dog statistics

Unexpected facts about these amazing canines!

  • Police K9s have an 85-95% drug detection accuracy rate

  • Most police dogs retire between ages 8-10 and are often adopted by their handlers

  • Only about 50% of dogs who enter police K9 training complete the program

  • Police K9s can search an area 4x faster than human officers alone
  • Police K9s can be certified in multiple specialties including narcotics, explosives, tracking, and search and rescue

  • Police dogs can detect contraband hidden in vehicles, luggage, and buildings

  • A police K9 can track a suspect’s scent trail that is several hours old

  • Police dogs have been trained to detect thumb drives, cell phones, and other electronics
  • Law enforcement dogs can suffer from PTSD and require specialized care

  • A dog’s nose is so sensitive it could detect a teaspoon of sugar in a MILLION gallons of water!

  • German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, and Labrador Retrievers are the most common police dog breeds

  • A police K9 can smell a human buried up to 12 feet underground

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