Officer Cletus, K-9 For Cookeville Police, Will Find You!

The Cookeville Police Department’s dogs manifest multiple talents.

Cletus, the dog we’re looking at today, makes tracking a complicated scent child’s play (or maybe that should be, ‘puppy play.’)

Instructor Dennis Guzlas, explained to notorious jewelry robber, Christy, that Cletus would be able to track her down by her scent.

So, being a very cooperative “jewelry robber,” Christy volunteered to rub a piece of gauze against her neck, and place it in an evidence bag.

(Cletus had to stay out of sight the whole time.)

Then Christy scampered several hundred yards down the road, a fleeing robber who knew Cletus would be on her trail, and darted and jigged to try to throw the poor hound off the scent.

Christy then hid behind a big pile of bricks.

Cletus was then brought to the start point in the parking lot from where the robber-ette departed.

The evidence bag, with the robber’s scent, was held in front of Cletus’s nose for about 1 second, while Cletus’s handler said, “Find ‘em!”

Cletus started off at a gentle lope, and ignoring all of the zigs and zags the jewel robber took, just followed a straight trail, only pausing to sniff around a little when the robber had made a few circles near the end.

In under 5 seconds, Cletus determined the proper trail, and cheerfully went over to uncover the little jewel thief behind the pile of bricks.

Walking back with “prisoner” in tow, Instructor Guzlas explained that thousands of cells fall off the human body every second.

He said imagine that he held a ketchup bottle full of talcum powder and as he walked along, he just sprayed the powder out.

That’s what it was like to Cletus when he was tracking Christy. And since most of the scent was carried by the wind anyway, Cletus just stayed with the main trail of human cell scent.

He explained that Cletus could have tracked her just as easily had she been on a bicycle or even a horse.

Just one more talented member of the Cookeville Police Department, we salute Good Ole Cletus, The Amazing Bloodhound.

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