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Asher and Ava Scally pet Hibbing Police K9 Chance and talk with his partner Joe Burns following a community watch party at the Memorial Building where more than 250 people watched the home town favorites win the first episode of America s Top Dog and earn a chance to compete for the season championship in August.
Hibbing K9 officer Joe Burns and his partner Chase appear on the big screen set up inside the Memorial Building arena in Hibbing Tuesday evening. The Hibbing Police Department duo competed on the television show America s Top Dog and won the $10,000 first prize, half of which was donated to the Hibbing Animal Shelter. The win also gives Burns and Chance the opportunity to compete in August for the season championship. A second watch party is scheduled for the community to attend.
Fox21Online
July 11, 2021
HIBBING, Minn. (FOX 9) – Chase, a police K9 from Hibbing, Minnesota is one of 16 Police K9s selected to compete in this season of A&E’s competition show “America’s Top Dog.”
Chase was selected out of thousands of dogs after his handler, Hibbing Police Officer Joey Burns, put in an application after watching an episode of the show.
“I was sitting there watching, I was thinking how cool it would be to get the opportunity to do something like that.” Burns said.
After learning they were selected, they had a few weeks to train for the show. Burns said he had to teach Chase a few new, specific skills for the show like pressing a button and jumping off a dock into the water. The show puts dogs through an intense obstacle course, something they practiced leading up to the filming of the show in September.
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Joey Burns, applied after watching one episode of the show, I was sitting there watching, I was thinking how cool it would be to get the opportunity to do something like that, Burns said.
Burns said they only had a few weeks to prepare after finding out he had been selected. He added that he had to teach Chase a few new skills like pressing a button and jumping off a dock into the water.
During the show, dogs are tasked with going through intense obstacle courses. So, Burns and Chase practiced as much as they could before filming began.
Fox21Online
July 8, 2021
HIBBING, Minn. – Hibbing Police say they have arrested and formally charged a 21-year-old Hibbing man for physically assaulting his 1-month-old baby.
According to police, officers responded to the 2600 block of 3rd Avenue East in Hibbing on reports of an assault around 4:40 p.m. Monday.
When officers arrived at the scene they spoke with a 20-year-old female who told them when she returned home from work she found her 1-month-old baby lying in a bed with extensive bruises to the baby’s face.
The woman told police when she confronted her boyfriend, Jose Flores Gurno, about the bruises, it then turned into a physical altercation.