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The highest-paid was a state police dog handler who received $439,000 overall, including the highest amount of overtime at $303,000.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
11 Jan. 2026
After locating handgun ammunition in the SUV, Burbank PD used a helicopter and police dog named Spike to locate Alas along a steep embankment along the freeway.
The Great Pyrenees is a large, thickly-coated, and immensely powerful working dog originally bred to guard livestock on the snowy peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain.
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Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
Ever since then, the park has maintained working dog teams, although their job has since evolved.
Larger dogs tend to have more wolf ancestry, and certain working breeds, such as Arctic sled dogs, wild-dog breeds, and hunting dogs, are more likely to have this trait.
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Ritsuko Kawai,
Wired News,
25 Dec. 2025
The scientists noted multiple patterns in their analysis, including higher wolf ancestry in larger dogs and in those who are bred as Arctic sled dogs, pariah breeds, and hunting dogs, per the American Museum of Natural History.
That means if a wolf dog ever bites someone, euthanasia and testing may be required.
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Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
Possessing second-generation wolf dogs, defined in California as the offspring of a domestic dog and a half-wolf, half-dog hybrid — with no more than 25% wolf — is legal.