Despite Failing the Police Academy, Gavel Found a Better Job Allowing Him to Embrace Life Fully
Being a police dog is definitely an honorable job, but it requires a lot of training and dedication. To be a part of paw enforcement, puppies have to pass the police dog academy and be trained to tackle hardened criminals.
In 2016, Gavel, then a six-week-old German Shepherd puppy, was one of the 40 police puppies in training in the Australian state of Queensland.
Coming from a “long line of pedigree dogs related to working police dogs,” [1] Gavel had a bright future. Everyone was certain that he would be catching criminals as a proud member of the Queensland Dog Squad in no time.
However, things didn’t go as everyone had expected. It turned out that Gavel actually had an affinity for pats rather than patrols.
Unfortunately, Gavel flunked the police academy, but he landed an even better job that let him be himself and enjoy life to the fullest.