department needed families willing to raise German Shepherd puppies from eight weeks old until they were old enough for formal police training.
The families would socialize them.
Teach them confidence.
Take them into stores, parks, crowds, sporting events.
Expose them to noise.
Strangers.
Cars.
Children.
Everything.
Then, around fourteen months old, they had to give them back.
“That last part is what most people can’t handle,” the deputy warned them.
“They fall in love.”
Lorraine had looked at Henry.
“We can do it.”
They had no children.
They had tried
