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Kojack Returns
By: Alison Schibi & Heather
Befort
On October 27th, Officer Gibson came to
Holy Family with Kojack, the drug dog. Kojack is six years old.
Did you know a dog’s sense of smell is 50 times stronger than
humans? Kojack was bred and trained in Europe to sniff out
drugs. Officer Gibson has had Kojack for 3 years. It took ten
weeks to train Kojack, and they still have to train him every
week! We learned that if there is a drug odor on another dog or
person, he would just try to scratch. We also learned that
everyday about 50 cars driving past Hays on interstate have
drugs in them! Officer Gibson said that they catch about 3% of
those cars. Did you know they caught a person with a drug worth
$13 million called Ecstasy? Kojack cost $7,000, but he is worth
it. He can continue to sniff out drugs until he is about 10
years old.
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