Parents from across the country are employing a private K9 to check their children's room for drugs. The outcome shows that most of the parents' suspicions are correct.
Courier-Journal reports that the Last Chance K9 Service opened on East Spring Street in New Albany in September. It is led by Michael Davis, the owner of the company and the one who searches the house with his German Shepherd. He said that his team at TLC has searched over 50 homes already in Kentuckiana.
In some cases, they have found no drugs. On the other hand, almost 90 percent of the time, the result is affirmative wherein his dog found narcotics such as marijuana, methamphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine and heroin that are hidden in the children's rooms, cars owned by the teens or young adults who live with parents and bathrooms.
Parenting reports that one parent from Kentucky saw a billboard of Last Chance K9 Service that offered help for worried parents for $99. The message stated, "Our dogs find drugs!" The parent thought of hiring K9 because he noticed something odd to her 14-year-old daughter who has new friends and detected an unusual smell from her room.
"I'm not a snooping parent," he said. "I want my daughter to be able to trust me, but I gotta protect her. I know girls can be sneaky and hide things in places I wouldn't even think of."
So, the searching began when her daughter was at school. The trained German shepherd dog went to the teen's room and in just seconds, the dog found a glass pipe of marijuana concealed in an Altoids tin in the teen's makeup stand.
The parent was so discouraged and said that he had easily overlooked it.
Davis advised the parent on how to talk to his daughter. "Don't yell or scream at her," Davis said. "Just sit down and talk to her. Be stern, but be cool, calm and collected." So, the parent just did exactly what Davis said.
Then, he destroyed the pipe of marijuana and threw it in the trash while his teen looked on. He also told his daughter about his experimentation with marijuana during his younger years.
"What we do is help the family fix the issue," Davis concluded. "We're not a police."
