What kind of dog does K-9 refer to?

Answer 1

Dogs K-9 Refers ToPolice dogs or military dogs, the K-9 unit is the designation for a dog and his handler (if you say K-9 it sounds just like canine, a word for dog.) These can be drug dogs, search and rescue dogs or dogs in any military or police capacity.

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• K-9 is a police shorthand for trained dogs that help with police activities. Actually all dogs belong to the species, Canine and of course that sounds like "K-9"

• K-9 refers to all dogs, but is mostly used for police dogs. Such as; service dogs, search dogs, and so on. Also if you say the words side by side, canine and k-9, they sound exactly alike. It could be used to shorten the word when writing.

• K-9 is an abbreviation for the species, canine. I.e., dogs in general. Probably the military was the first to use this abbreviation since they even have their own ways of writing today's date, eliminating the slashes between the month, year and day. The whole idea behind this is to (believe it or not) save ink in the days when typewriters were used and the ribbons were made of cloth, saturated with the ink. It saves wear and tear on the ribbons, time spent typing and because during wartime, the available supply was an issue.

• Police dogs are often referred to by the term K9, which sounds like the term canine, a word that generally refers to the dog and its relatives.

Answer 2

it means nothing it just stands for DOG.