Watch video: 17 Malinois warrior pups to serve armed forces by 2021 end

Indias paramilitary forces will have 17 new expert sniffer and assault dogs in their canine squad before the end of 2021 The good news came when ITBPs serving dog Gala who did antisabotage duty at allweather Atal Tunnel inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rohtang last month becomes father of these 17 warrior pups of the Malinois breedBorn to fighter moms Olga and Oleshya the 17 boisterous pups would become complete ITBP lsquotroopersrsquo in next one year to take on their heroic acts furtherWATCH ITBP gets 17 new warriors for its K9 Team as mothers Olga and Oleshya gave birth to 17 Malinois pups at ITBPs elite National Training Centre for Dogs in Panchkula HaryanaMalinois breed was used by United States in the operation to eliminate terrorist Osama Bin Laden pictwittercommV94alXDwNmdash ANI ANI November 5 2020Malinois dogs have played key role in hunting down pan AlQaedas founder Osama bin Laden and more recently Islamic State chief Abu Bakr AlBaghdadiAlso known as Belgian Shepherds the mediumsized herding dog breed from Belgium is known to be highly intelligent alert and sensitiveIndoTibetan Border Police ITBP used Malinois dogs for the first time in India in Left Wing Extremism LWE or Maoisthit areas in 2009 to sniff out the hiding insurgents and detecting IEDs helping the force in saving lives of various security personnel deployed in the regionThe ITBP also used these dogs for the security of then visiting US President Barack Obama as well as for the security of all Indian missions in AfghanistanThanks to these dogs who secured the ITBP from various ambush operations were the words of a senior ITBP official who requested his identity not be revealed while talking to IANSGiving details of the birth of the 17 Malinois pups the official said that Olga and Oleshya who are siblings and five years old gave birth to these pups in the elite National Training Centre for Dogs at Bhanu in Haryanas Panchkula Olga gave birth to nine pups on September 30 while Oleshya had eight pups on October 4Both mothers are counterinsurgency grid veterans having served in Chhattisgarh and are enjoying motherhood at the sprawling ITBP K9 Breeding CentreThe pups father Gala is currently in ITBPs serviceBoth mothers and father have had a sterling tenure in the CI grid area as well ITBP spokesperson Vivek Pandey told IANS informing Oleshya and Olga have a track record of safeguarding the ITBP troopers by sanitising Road Opening Parties ROPs and as deterrent to ambushesBoth have detected Improvised Explosive Devices numerous times thereby saving livesGala the father of the 17 pups is a tough dog who also loyally escorted the Area Domination Party ADP troopers and never failed Pandey saidGala also did antisabotage duty at Atal Tunnel inaugurated by Honble PM recentlyDIG Vet Sudhakar Natarajan said the dogs are genetically topclass pups from a very robust blood line imbibing the best genetic vigour from the mothers who are fearless agile and with a superb olfactory capacityThe ITBP has received requests from other CAPFs Central Armed Police Forces for these ITBP pups for their respective security dutiesNatarajan said that ITBP was the first force to deploy Malinois dogs in LWEhit areas a decade ago and now they have also started scientifically breeding K9s to meet own demands and provide pups to other CAPFs and state police forces as mandated by Ministry of Home AffairsIt was ensured that the pups first get the colostrums from the hero mothers and now are on a diet of semisolid food and mothers milk They will be handed over to their handlers after three months For the next four months they will be given basic obedience training And in the next four months they will be given advanced training Natarajan told IANSHe said it will be ensured that the 17 pups will be trained dogs in next one yearKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever