K9 Rex

Polk County K-9 Officer Passes Away

The Sheriff's Office says K-9 Rex had been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease.

POLK COUNTY, MN (KVRR) – The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has announced, with heavy hearts, that one of their K-9 officers has died. Sheriff James Tadman says that K-9 Rex, a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois/German Shepard mix, recently was diagnosed with Lyme disease and had begun to suffer from kidney failure. To minimize the animal’s pain, the decision was made to…