Update on Midge, the drug sniffing, crime fighting Chihuahua

As some of you know, I am a volunteer patrol person for our local police department and my childhood dog for 15 years was a Chihuahua. So I have been following the career of Midge with great interest.

I first wrote about Midge in March when she joined the office of Ohio Geauga County Sheriff, Dan McClelland, as an aspiring drug sniffing dog. At the time she was three months old and weighed two pounds. She was just a rookie, but she had big dreams.

In August she began training to be a state certified drug sniffing dog.

Now all grown up at eight pounds, Midge has received certification as a full fledged K-9 drug detector in the state of Ohio. Midge scored 100% on her test. Sheriff McClelland, her boss and trainer, is ready to take her anyplace with him for full duties as a narc dog.

Not only that, but she has also made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the tiniest drug sniffing dog on the planet.

Stories about Midge have appeared in the press all over the world. She even has her own email address: midge@co.geauga.oh.us

If there were a Nobel Prize for good public relations in law enforcement, Sheriff McClelland would win.

The latest story

Comments

[Dirty Butter]

There's really not a reason in the world why a drug sniffing dog should have to be a certain size, but we associate police dogs with German Shepherds and such, so Midge seems amazing. Why, she IS amazing!!

Thanks for stopping by Yesterday's Memories, Jan.

[Tina]

She won't be as scary as the huge dogs either. But I'll bet she can get the job done just as well.

[Laura]

I think her size would work to her advantage. I wonder if they train any small dogs for search and rescue. It seems to me that a small dog would have a better chance of fitting into tight spots in a collapsed building than a larger dog.

[Carina]

Awww! There is nothing nicer to see than a well trained little bitty dog, especially one in a tiny adorable little K9 vest. :)
I saw a T-shirt once (large guy walking an Italian Greyhound): "It takes a BIG man to walk a little dog."

[threecollie]

Impressive accomplishments for such a cute little dog. (I had to call everybody to come out and see her!)

[Tracey]

Well done for such a cute little critter!!

[Coll]

What a little darling. The thing with little dogs is, they have no idea that they are small. :-)

[jillbryant]

Again - too cute to take....

[Cody Cagle]

Ahhh soo cuteywootey!