 I'm Officer Lopez with the UC Berkeley Police Department. My canine is Canine Officer Obi. Obi is a bomb detection canine. He is a 15 month old Springer Spaniel. He is a rescue dog out of Wyoming where his previous owners used to abuse him and beat him. It took him a while to get used to me at first. He was very skittish. He'd want to just go find a dark place and just be there or his kennel and he'd just want to stay in there. So at first he's kind of not wanting to be around that many people but then as soon as he warms up he's a handful. He goes with me to every call and every chance we get we kind of do some training where I'll put out some odor. We have odors that simulate that of what explosives are made out of and we put some of those odors into either a vehicle or in a room. He does his search based on just his smell. He goes around and he usually is really good at dictating where it goes or where it's coming from and once he does he alerts at it and he sits down and looks at me and that tells me that there's something there and his reward is just a tennis ball. It's kind of like a game for him. He sees the ball. I was like, okay, so to get the ball I need to go find the odor. When we go walk around the plaza and he'll want to go and see what this group of people are doing and what this group of people are doing and I mean just him and I are both building our bond as we go so every training is I learned to trust him more and he learns to trust me more. So you just give him a little bit of appreciation and just show him a little bit of love for doing something that they're born to do and they appreciate it. He thoroughly enjoys detection work and he's really good at it. We learned together his first time being a police dog and it's my first canine and I'm thoroughly enjoying being with him.