{"id":418902,"date":"2025-12-02T06:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418902\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:35:20","slug":"retired-k-9-officer-first-bloodhound-in-harris-county-law-enforcement-service-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418902\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired K-9 officer, first bloodhound in Harris County law enforcement service, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HARRIS COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A retired K-9 officer, which was the first bloodhound in law enforcement service in Harris County, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">K-9 Clyde served the Harris County Pct. 3 Constable\u2019s Office as a single purpose search K-9 for several years. The constable\u2019s office says he was responsible for locating and brought many people to safety, including children and elderly citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">K-9 Clyde was welcomed to Precinct 3 in 2019. He served for several years before he retired.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">&#8220;As he grew older, the tough choice was made to retire him from service. Clyde lived out his remaining years with former Pct. 3 Deputy TJ Tolleson, where he truly enjoyed the retired life, as a beloved pet\u201a&#8221; the constable\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The constable\u2019s office says Clyde was the first bloodhound in law enforcement service in Harris County, but because of his successful career, other agencies in the area have added bloodhounds to their K9 departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">&#8220;He was loved by all who met him, and we will always smile when we think of his very distinct howl and the trail of drool he\u2019d leave in his path. Rest easy K-9 Clyde, we\u2019ve got it from here\u201a&#8221; the constable\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A retired K-9 officer, which was the first bloodhound in law enforcement service in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[196027,6386,196028,4345,196026,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-418902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bloodhound","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-harris-county-pct-3-constables-office","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-k-9-clyde","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115648588949041034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}