{"id":108287,"date":"2016-10-17T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=108287"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:36:09","slug":"watch-saps-is-training-dogs-to-parachute-into-crime-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/108287-watch-saps-is-training-dogs-to-parachute-into-crime-areas","title":{"rendered":"Watch: SAPS is training dogs to parachute into crime areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SAPS is\u00a0training dogs are to parachute into danger zones in order to fight crime in South Africa, reports the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/parachuting-anti-poaching-dogs-trained-9048138\" target=\"_blank\">Mirror<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs are specifically being used to help track down rhino poachers by looking for for tell-tale poaching tracks such as cut or broken fences, irregular human tracks, and litter from camp sites.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Paramount Group Anti-Poaching and K9 Academy said Arrow had been preparing for his anti-poaching role from a very early age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arrow was first introducing to flying in a chopper at the age of 6 months, he then began rappel training when he was one-year-old.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He loves flying in choppers and especially on the skids on the outside of the helicopter.:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arrow goes everywhere with his handler, its important he trusts him, otherwise he wouldn&#8217;t jump out of a plane at 7,500ft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the canines in action below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T6EAxYZGhhQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The insane movie plots people actually tried in real life\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/106039-the-insane-movie-plots-people-actually-tried-in-real-life.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The insane movie plots people actually tried in real life<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African crime fighting is no longer up in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[31,6191,22831,2163],"class_list":["post-108287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-features","tag-active","tag-dogs","tag-saps","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108291,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108287\/revisions\/108291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}