Should We Be Cloning Service Dogs? with K9 Officer Zach Pfannenstiel | Mike Drop #201

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Mike Ritland and K9 Officer Zach Pfannenstiel discuss the deteriorating quality and availability of working dogs for law enforcement. Pfannenstiel recounts seeing a cloned dog at LAPD that performed well in training, while both describe how imported dogs have declined dramatically since the mid-2000s. Ritland argues that cloning may become necessary because the industry has overfished the gene pool by importing top dogs, neutering them, and preventing breeding, while younger generations aren’t entering dog training and European sport clubs have declined significantly.

Key takeaways

• Pfannenstiel saw a cloned dog at LAPD that he describes as the best dog in the decoy course class
• Both speakers report that imported working dogs have dramatically declined in quality since the mid-2000s, now arriving younger and requiring significantly more training
• Ritland argues the industry has created a crisis by importing the best dogs, mandating they be neutered, and removing them from the breeding gene pool while demand continues to grow

Episode details: published August 20, 2024 · 1.7K views · 8:15 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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