Success Stories: TSA Puppy Program

Objective: Continue to Protect our Nation from Dangerous Goods

Situation		Action
Mar 9, 1972: First use of a bomb-sniffing dog to detect a bomb aboard an airplane in the U.S. DOT creates National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program (NEDCTP) September 11th, 2001: Terrorist attacks increase urgency to produce explosive detection canines		NEDCTP and its Puppy Program breeding colony are now a part of DHS and TSA First breeding occurs in January, 2002; Puppy Program has since produced 266 puppies TSA Puppy Program selectively breeds, raises, and prepares puppies to be future explosives-detection dogs within the NEDCTP
Result
Mission: provide 80 puppies a year to supplement NEDCTP and other Federal and state agencies in need of working dogs Puppy Walker Foster Program: families in TX raise puppies from 9 weeks until 12 months Puppies return for 1 week a month for medical & behavioral evaluation; at 1 year puppies return to the NEDCTP to start their official training		Interested in the Puppy Walker Foster Program? Visit: http://www.tsa.gov/assets/doc/tsa-volunteer-application.doc
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