{"id":2838,"date":"2015-11-19T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T12:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2015-11-19T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T12:33:47","slug":"pit-bull-police-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/pit-bull-police-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kiah &#8211; The NYPD&#8217;s First Ever Pit Bull Police Dog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Kiah. She&#8217;s the newest recruit to Poughkeepsie <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/open-carry-men-walk-into-detroit-police-station-with-guns\/\">Police<\/a> Department. The New York mutt is flying through her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/exercise-routines-for-beginners\/\">training<\/a> and &#8216;graduates&#8217; as a police dog this week. And there&#8217;s no one prouder of her than her handler, who always knew she could make the grade.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/animals\/hulk-biggest-pit-bull-litter-puppies\/1212\">biggest pit bull terrier <\/a>but she is the first\u00a0to ever make it into the ranks of the NYPD and has so much boundless energy and enthusiasm, that it looks like she set to make for an excellent police dog!<\/p>\n<p>Kiah came from an Animal Farm Foundation program that <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/animals\/rescue-dog-mange-india\/2443\">rescues dogs<\/a>\u00a0from unscrupulous owners and trains them for police detection work. AFF are a non-profit charity animal rescue and group who, among other things, are dedicated to ending the negative\u00a0stereotypes that many people have about pit bulls.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2839\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pit-Bull-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pit Bull \" width=\"1162\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many doubted the nature of a pit bull when she first joined the training program, due to pit bull&#8217;s reputation for ferocity. But the &#8216;anger&#8217; of all dogs is a learnt trait and response. Naturally, pit bulls are no more testy than any other breed. But when they do react? Their powerful jaws can be\u00a0very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Kiah&#8217;s being a role model to all pit bull and &#8211; more so &#8211; pit bull owners. Across the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2840\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pit-Bull-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pit Bull \" width=\"802\" height=\"714\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NYPD Police Officer and dog handler Justin Bruzgul, Kiah\u2019s new partner-in-fighting-crime, says that \u2018breed doesn\u2019t matter\u2019, it&#8217;s all about having that\u00a0willingness to work hard, be energetic and want to please her handler.<\/p>\n<p>A little more on this extraordinary dog that&#8217;s redefining how people see pit bull terriers:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Pit Bull Fights Bad Rap to Join Police Force\" width=\"801\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zMBM_WOr0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Kiah. 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She&#8217;s not the biggest pit bull terrier but she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,1205,2884,2887,2892,2916],"class_list":{"0":"post-2838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-animals","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-dogs","10":"tag-pit-bull","11":"tag-pit-bull-police-dog","12":"tag-pit-bull-terriers","13":"tag-police-dogs","14":"post_format-post-format-video"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meet Kiah - The NYPD&#039;s First Ever Pit Bull Police Dog! - Daily Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/pit-bull-police-dog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet Kiah - The NYPD&#039;s First Ever Pit Bull Police Dog!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is Kiah. 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