[Lacey Vessell]

This was my partner in crime fighting for the last four years - Jarko. We are both retired now, although he is having a harder time then me enjoying retirement:

Me and Jarko in our younger days:

This is Coda (Shock Troop's Coda) she is 15 months old and a handfull:

 

[Woody Taylor]

Beautiful dogs. I love those NC pine trees, too...my mom was born outside of Elizabeth City, my dad outside of Goldsboro.

Edited to say my Grandmother's in Snow Hill and my uncle's in Kinston...a bit closer to ya.

 

[Connie Sutherland]

Beautiful dogs, beautiful pictures! 8)

 

[Lacey Vessell]

Thank you both for your comments about the pictures. Gotta love the pine trees - only trees that stay up in a hurricane here :twisted:

 

[Andres Martin]

Aha! New meat!!! :twisted:
Welcome!

 

[Lacey Vessell]

New Meat? (pretty tough and old actually) :twisted: Puppy under my name? Wow, it's been awhile since I felt like a rookie. Thanks for the welcome.

 

[Connie Sutherland]

New Meat? (pretty tough and old actually) :twisted: Puppy under my name? Wow, it's been awhile since I felt like a rookie. Thanks for the welcome.

How about "tough puppy"? :lol: :wink:

 

[Becky Shilling]

All she needs is the "SuperGirl" cape!

 

[Lacey Vessell]

Yup, my friend Amanda is amazing when it comes to taking pictures and catching the action.

I think in the following two pictures you should look for the halo and then look for the horns on Coda.

 

[Hil Harrison]

wow nice dogs....great action pic of Coda

 

[Lacey Vessell]

Thanks Hil

 

[Jeff Oehlsen]

Quote: New Meat? (pretty tough and old actually) Puppy under my name? Wow, it's been awhile since I felt like a rookie. Thanks for the welcome.

For us old dog trainers, cops are ALWAYS rookies. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: Who trains your dogs in the first place?

 

[Lacey Vessell]

Jeff, you make it sound like you're "older than dirt". :twisted: As for who trains my dogs - me. If your asking who initially trains most police dogs - civilians, and I'll add that some of the best trainers I have met are civilians......more than a few were prior LEO though :wink:

 

[Amanda Layne]

Lacy is making herself sound old with all this "retired" mumbo jumbo. I however......think that she trains more now, than when she was a cop.

Don't let her (Coda) fool you, that little angel you see in the picture...is quite the little powerhouse.

 

[Lacey Vessell]

Coda needs alot more time and effort, then the 12 hours minimum a week that Jarko needed for proficiency training.

As for the comment about not being old - well if people would stop asking me if YOU were my daughter, maybe I would not feel so old.

 

[Guest]

Old is always about ten yrs beyond what you are at any given point in time, believe me I know

Nice pics.