Friends for Chesapeake K9

03/13/2024

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03/04/2024

Please help us wish K9 Bono a very “Happy 6th Birthday.” K9 Bono is a dual purpose K9 from Poland and has been keeping the city, its officers, and citizens safe since 2020 both day and night. Happy Birthday K9 Bono! 🎂🎉

01/23/2024

Please consider calling your delegate to endorse this bill if you live in VA. Creates guidelines for the treatment of police/sar canines by fire/rescue. Delegate J. Leftwich (Chesapeake) is carrying the bill and any support would greatly be appreciated.

Department of Health Professions; veterinary medicine; exceptions for care of animals injured in line of duty. Provides an exception to the unauthorized practice of veterinary medicine for any law-enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical services personnel who provides emergency treatm...

01/15/2024

2024 Calendars are in!!! Only $10. Limited amount so get yours quickly. Cash or Venmo accepted. All money goes to helping our retired four-legged heroes. Just hit up one of our handlers 🐺💪🏻

10/12/2023

Please consider donating to help protect our local four-legged heroes with the help of Your generosity will provide three of our newest K9s with the protection they deserve equipping them with a custom fitted K9 Storm bulletproof & stab-proof vest. These K9s will be out on the street protecting the officers and citizens of the city countless times. They sacrifice so much with asking for so little. 🐕💪🏻

Help raise money to provide ballistic vests for Chesapeake’s three newest K9s!

09/02/2023

Happy Police K9 Day yesterday to all the K9s out there protecting and serving!!! 🐕💪🏻

08/26/2023

Happy National Dog Day to all our 🐕s.
We appreciate you!!!

08/09/2023

05/29/2023

Please vote for Chesapeake PD K9. You can vote each day thru 6/5. Your votes will help get funding for our local four legged heroes 🐕💪🏻😊

https://www.aftermath.com/2021-northeast-k9-voting/

05/05/2023

We regret to inform you that one of our retired four-legged heroes, K9 Rosco age 13, peacefully crossed the rainbow bridge this evening next to his handler. Rosco served the city from 2011-2019 as a dual-purpose K9 helping keep the officers and citizens safe. Please keep his handler and his family in your thoughts and prayers. RIP K9 Rosco. You will be missed. ⚫️🔵⚫️🐺🌈🌉

05/05/2023

05/04/2023

04/28/2023

Be sure to drop by this week and get a hot cup of some K9 Boss. Per his handler, “It's strong and bold, yet is sweet. Has a nice kick, makes you want to wake up and chase a ball or a bad guy.” We always appreciate Pale Horse Coffee for including us anyway possible. They have two locations Great Bridge and Greenbrier. 🐕💪🏻☕️

04/21/2023

04/17/2023

Pale Horse Coffee you guys rock!!! Thank you again for your support in helping our retired four-legged heroes 🐕💪🏻

04/16/2023

What a great event yesterday! Big ”Thank You” to all who came out to support us. Had a wonderful turn out and the dogs had fun too!!! Much appreciation to Pale Horse Coffee for inviting us to participate in the event. 🐕💪🏻

04/15/2023

Don’t forget to come on out tomorrow Saturday April 15th from 9-12pm at the S. Battlefield location. We will be doing a K9 demo along with other cool things to see.

Enter the giveaway and support Friends for Chesapeake K9 tomorrow during our 2nd Amendment Day celebration! Tickets can also be purchased at our Summit Pointe location. See you soon! ☕☠

04/07/2023

Come on out next Saturday, April 15th for another “2nd Amendment Celebration” with coffee and K9s. Come meet some local four-legged heroes, Chesapeake SWAT, Chesapeake FD, Freedom Outdoors and Pale Horse Weapon Institute. Sip on some delicious beverages to get your day started from 9-12pm. There will be a raffle give away along with some great t-shirts to purchase. Proceeds will help your local retired four-legged heroes. 🐕💪🏻

03/29/2023

Let’s all wish K9 Riggs a Happy Birthday. He is a dual purpose patrol/narcotics that turned 5 years old today. Even on his birthday he was still working to keep the city safe. Happy Birthday Riggs!!! 🎂🎉

03/29/2023

Let’s wish this girl here, K9 Echo, a very Happy 1st Birthday back on March 18th. Not only did she have a birthday, but she also certified in narcotics through the VPWDA this month as well. Happy Birthday K9 Echo 🎉🎂

03/20/2023

We wanted to give a big shout out/bark out to for putting on a wonderful event and letting us be a part of it. Huge thanks to them and everyone who graciously donated to our nonprofit. We can’t thank you enough for your support in keeping our four legged heroes comfortable through retirement. We couldn’t do it without you!!! 🐕💪🏻

03/17/2023

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from K9 Bono. He’s relaxing before work tonight listening to the other Bono/U2 🐕💪🏻🍀

03/13/2023

So thankful for the K9s 🐕💪🏻

03/05/2023

Let’s all wish K9 Bono a Happy 5th Birthday. K9 Bono is a dual-purpose patrol/narcotics K9 for the city, who absolutely loves to work. On his days off, you can catch him lounging by the pool with his ball. 🎉

01/02/2023

A retirement well deserved. These two four-legged heroes will be added to our support list. Please consider helping them out. We still have our 2023 K9 calendars available but they are selling quick. Get up with one of our handlers sooner than later 😊

12/21/2022

Guess what day it is??? You’re right “Hump Day” but also “2023 Chesapeake K9 Calendar Day!” They just arrived here in time for the Holidays. Get them while you can. DM/Text/Find a Handler…only $10. Proceeds go to helping our four-legged heroes 🐕💪🏻

10/27/2022

Please consider voting for K9 Murphy. He’s one of our local heroes!
www.aftermath.com/k9-grant

10/24/2022

Please consider voting!!! It’s for grant money that will greatly help our four-legged heroes out. Vote for Murphy!!! 🐕💪🏻

04/12/2022

Please consider supporting our non-profit thru Venmo. All help you give goes to our retired four-legged heroes, who do not have benefits once they are retired.

https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3182281543909376982&created=1649788431

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

04/11/2022

Is it with very heavy hearts that we announce an unexpectedly passing of one of our retired four-legged heroes yesterday, K9 Boru, who was only 10yrs old. K9 Boru was a dual purpose K9 for our city, who had retired last year after four years of service. Thoughts and prayers go out to the Duncan family as they deal during this difficult time.

Below is from K9 Boru’s family…

RIP K9 Boru Duncan
7/1/2012 – 4/10/2022

Jim and I are heartbroken to report the sudden and unexpected passing of K9 Boru on Sunday April 10, 2022. K9 Boru was K9 Officer Jim Duncan’s beloved and loyal partner until 2021 when Boru retired and we adopted him. K9 Boru was imported from Holland at the age of 3.5 in 2016. He was trained extensively in 2016 and certified in both Patrol and Narcotics. He was working the streets of Chesapeake from 2017 until 2021. He made a significant impact on keeping the citizens of Chesapeake safe. He and Officer Duncan had an uncanny and unbreakable bond as they worked many long days and longer nights. This extreme athlete K9 lived to assist and protect his partner and the citizens of Chesapeake. Here is some of what K9 Boru accomplished in 4 short years:

543 Felony Arrests
Narcotic Arrests - 180
30 Illegal Fi****ms confiscated
28 Apprehensions
230 Misdemeanor Arrests
56 patrol Searches
307 Narcotic Searches

Seizures
Ma*****na - 1726 gms
Co***ne - 989 gms
Methamphetamine - 218 gms
He**in - 110 gms
Ecstasy - 2034 gms
U.S. Currency $14,000

Please keep this in mind… Once a K9 retires, the Police Department no longer assists with their care including medical bills and food, etc. . This should change. However, there are non profits that are trying to help.

A Police K9 is a very dangerous and physically demanding job. Often they sustain injuries while working, sometimes in apprehending violent criminals. When a K9 retires, the handler typically adopts him; all medical costs and food and upkeep immediately become the responsibility of the handler. This can add up significantly. It is at this time that health issues from the demands of the job often set in

In honor of K9 Boru and all other working dogs there are ways that you can help… consider donating to the nonprofit Friends for Chesapeake K9 which was formed for this purpose.
Venmo: . Last 4 of tel: 8966

Another superb working dog charity that we also fully support is Spike's K9 Fund, the non profit that provided all the ballistic vests for the Chesapeake K9’s as well as for K9’s all over the country. Spike’s also conducts schools to better train Officers and their working partners, provides medical resources to countless working dogs and much more.

Thanks for the support and appreciation of law enforcement.

It has been a honor to be connected to the Chesapeake Police Department as a spouse under the exceptional leadership of Chief of Police Kelvin Wright.

This is a sad day for us but we are grateful to have had such a superb K9 in Boru who has served the city of Chesapeake so valiantly.

Thank you and God Bless.

A very special thank you to Chris McQn for capturing the love of this human and his partner.