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Associated Press - June 13, 2009 6:54 PM ET
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - It's a retired police dog's life: A fenced yard, no kids and definitely no cats.
Those are some of the new perks available for aging members of the Twin Falls Sheriff's Department canine force, adopted by the local county commission Thursday.
Sheriff Tom Carter says there previously had been no policy governing how to ease long-in-the-tooth members of its hound patrol into their golden years.
According to the new policy, the sheriff's department can select families to receive the dogs. Their cost can't exceed $250.
That's a bargain: A 20-month-old German shepherd that the law enforcement agency is now training was purchased for about $8,000 in Germany.
The first candidate for retirement is Croix, a 9-year-old German shepherd known among officers as an "any day dog" - because any day could be his last on the job.
Information from: The Times-News, http://www.magicvalley.com
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