Retirement of Detector Dogs Jagger and Chloe

DescriptionCBSA Announces Retirement of Detector Dogs Jagger and Chloe – Video Transcript
Officer Falzon: My name is Officer Falzon and I’m a Border Services Officer with Canada Border Services Agency and I’m also a Detector Dog Handler and this is my partner, Jagger.
Text on screen: Toronto Pearson International Airport
Officer Falzon: He looks for currency, so cash. More often than not, we’re around the baggage hall. Jagger’s trained to go right up to people and sniff their pockets and around their waist. For the public, when they see the dog running around, it’s an experience for them. For me, it’s just an everyday occurrence, but for them it’s unique and it’s an experience.
Officer Portiss: My name is Officer Portiss. I’m a detector dog handler with Canada Border Services Agency, and this is my partner, Detector Dog Chloe. She’s an 11-year-old beagle.
What she’s looking for specifically is food plant and animal products that are restricted or prohibited from coming into Canada. Me as a dog handler, watching her work, my proudest moments are when she finds something that no one else would have ever found. She’ll be hard on a bag, nose on it, and indicate on it, and you know, we’ll be searching it and the other officers will be saying ‘There’s nothing here’ and I’m like, ‘no there’s got to be something here.’ And we look and look and look and finally, maybe in the toe of shoe there’s a little packet of seeds that someone was importing. Not only is that difficult to find, but that’s a really huge risk to our agricultural and forestry industries.
Text on screen: Jagger and Chloe are retiring in April 2017 after 10 years of service
Officer Falzon: (Looks at dog) What are your plans? What do you want to do after you’re done here?
The plan is to continue his experiences outside of the home and to keep him happy, really.
Officer Portiss: She’s cased out the best sun spots in the house, and the comfiest couch in the house, so she’s good. She’s got a rotating schedule of places to sleep. She does love to hike too, so we’ll keep the sniffer busy by going on hikes with her. I’ll take her and my other dog and they love to go hiking in the woods.
Officer Falzon: (Looks at dog) You want to wave goodbye to all the people. Here. Sit. Wave goodbye. Sit down. Sit. Wave. Good boy! Nice!
Text on screen: All the best in your retirement, Chloe and Jagger!