Booth numbers are listed with vendor names and the map of the vendor area is below.
Capital K9s
Booth 19
Biographical Info
In 2004, Madison Police Department Sgt. Chris Boyd (Ret.) worked on a joint drug enforcement task force with a drug-sniffing Dutch Shepherd, K9 Arno. When the task force ended, K9 Arno – who had years of work-life ahead – was out of a job. Sgt. Boyd lobbied MPD administration to create a K9 unit, but there was no money in the budget. In Anchorage Alaska, after a police officer was killed searching a warehouse for a suspect (a job that a police K9 does really well), local residents started a charity to provide K9s to their police force, which gave Sgt. Boyd the idea to ask for similar support from the Madison community.
In 2004, the Madison City Council passed a resolution permitting MPD to accept donations from Capital K9s to create and maintain a K9 unit. Over the years, studies have proven the incredible value of pairing high-drive K9s with a human police officers. To date, Capital K9s has funded 21 K9s for Madison police.