Slight tangent. I know that exposing the dog to the sounds of gunfire in training is absolutely necessary. It’s part of training a working dog that might be around gunfire during the course of its job. I still feel terrible about it. During our last qualification, we had some uniformed guys from another agency shooting with us. One of them was a K9 handler who recently got a new dog. As I was about to give the line commands to start the first stage of the rifle qualification, I looked over to the side and saw he was standing there with the dog. I quickly realized he wanted the dog exposed to the noise. I mouthed “you sure?” and he nodded. All I could think of was the one time during firearms instructor school that I forgot to put on my ear pro and got to hear 24 11.5” 5.56 ARs fire at once. I was quite thankful the drill was a single shot from the low ready. I can only imagine what that qualification sounded like to a dog’s ears.