The 2020 Name the Puppy contest. (Submitted photo/ RCMP)

By Nicole Reis

NAME THE PUPPY CONTEST

Loon Lake boy a winner in RCMP Name the Puppy 2020 contest

Apr 29, 2020 | 1:00 PM

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the winners of the 2020 Name the Puppy contest. The winning names will be given to the first 13 puppies born at the Police Dog Services Training Centre in 2020.

Prize-winner, 8-year-old Lucas Beyea, from Loon Lake told meadowlakeNOW he and his family picked the name together.

“The whole family was discussing names and we chose Narco because it starts with an ‘N’,” he said.

Beyea celebrated his birthday on April 11.

In a release, Staff Sergeant Gary Creed, Senior Trainer and acting Officer in Charge of the Police Dog Service Training Centre thanked all school staff and kids who entered the contest.

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“Thank you to all the children who entered,” he said. “And thank you to all the teachers who make this part of their class work. These 13 names will serve our dogs with pride.”

All names in the contest had to start with the letter ‘N’. For entries of the same name, a draw determined the winner.

The winning entries are:

• Nanuq : Hunter Lowe (Rankin Inlet, Nunavut)
• Narco : Lucas Beyea (Loon Lake, Saskatchewan)
• Narley : Avery Moreau (Surrey, British Columbia)
• Neeka : Logan Grant (Cornwall, Ontario)
• Nelly : Thomas Lafrenière (Gatineau, Quebec)
• Nero : Malcolm Costain (Elmsdale, Prince Edward Island)
• Newman : Landon MacDougall (Truro, Nova Scotia)
• Nina : Aleesha Hanna (Napan, New Brunswick)
• Nixon : Gannon Myers (Port au Choix, Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Niya : Sabella Nickerson (Bowden, Alberta)
• Noah : Jeremiah Olson (Fort McPherson, North West Territories)
• Nova : Maddison Cresswell (Carcross, Yukon)
• Nytro : Denise Tackaberry (Kelwood, Manitoba)

The 13 winners will each receive a laminated 8×10-inch photo of the pup they named, a plush dog named Justice and an RCMP water bottle.

About RCMP Police Dog Services

RCMP police service dog teams are an important part of frontline policing. They search for missing or lost people, track and apprehend criminals, remove illicit drugs from the streets, detect explosives, and search for evidence used in crimes.

About the Police Dog Service Training Centre

The RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre in Innisfail, Alta., is the training centre for all RCMP police dog teams in Canada.

All the German shepherds working today as RCMP service dogs were born at the PDSTC as part of the RCMP Police Dog Breeding Program.

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nicole.reis@jpbg.ca

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