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4-kg police dog

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Mieko Shinkubo holds her 3-year-old female miniature dachshund Becky at the Kumamoto prefectural police headquarters in the city of Kumamoto on April 3, 2013. Becky, about 40 centimeters long and weighing about 4 kilograms, was granted a certificate the same day to work as a police dog.

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Dog awarded for keeping man, girl warm

SAPPORO, Japan - Asako Soma (R) receives an award certificate on behalf of Junior (L), a 7-year-old male Labrador Retriever, in the town of Naie, Hokkaido, on Nov. 24, 2011. The town government honored the dog for keeping his 81-year-old owner Yoshimasa Soma, husband of Asako, and the man's 3-year-old granddaughter Sukai Kimura warm in an overturned car during a freezing night.

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Miniature police dog gets geared for action

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A miniature schnauzer (front) sits wearing a police jacket alongside its coworker in the city of Wakayama on Jan. 20, 2010. The 3-year-old dog, only 38 centimeters in size, will finish its training as an odor detecting police dog after being hired in January by the Wakayama Prefectural Police Headquarters.

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Toy poodle becomes police dog in Japan's Ibaraki Pref.

Photo taken in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 14, 2016, shows "Anzu", a 3-year-old new police dog, and trainer Hirofusa Suzuki. The toy poodle, who escaped culling after she was abandoned by her owner when she was still a newborn, passed the exams in 2015 to become a police dog for Ibaraki prefectural police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dog reunited with family after going missing in tornado

MITO, Japan - Mariko Ozeki pats her family's pet dog Wantaro in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 9, 2012. The 3-year-old male dog was reunited with the family the previous day after going missing on May 6 in a tornado that hit the city, killing a teenage boy and injuring dozens of people. (Kyodo)

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Miniature police dog gets geared for action

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A miniature schnauzer (front) sits wearing a police jacket alongside its coworker in the city of Wakayama on Jan. 20, 2010. The 3-year-old dog, only 38 centimeters in size, will finish its training as an odor detecting police dog after being hired in January by the Wakayama Prefectural Police Headquarters. (Kyodo)

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Dog awarded for keeping man, girl warm

SAPPORO, Japan - Asako Soma (R) receives an award certificate on behalf of Junior (L), a 7-year-old male Labrador Retriever, in the town of Naie, Hokkaido, on Nov. 24, 2011. The town government honored the dog for keeping his 81-year-old owner Yoshimasa Soma, husband of Asako, and the man's 3-year-old granddaughter Sukai Kimura warm in an overturned car during a freezing night. (Kyodo)