The mere mention of TSA is enough to push stress levels into the red zone, especially during the holiday travel season. But TSA has done something that will elicit “awwws” not “aaaarghs”: the agency recently announced its 2024 TSA Canine Calendar.
The calendar, featuring a year’s worth of precious pooch photos, honors the more than 1,000 explosives-detection canines working to keep airports across the country safe.
On the calendar's cover is Dina, winner of the 2023 cutest canine contest. The three-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer works as a passenger screening canine at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. She was one of several TSA canines who worked at Super Bowl LVII in Phoenix in February. The calendar features other canine cuties like Gina-Gina the Belgian Malinois working at LaGuardia Airport in New York, Puk the German Shorthaired Pointer working at Boston Logan and Duke-LeDuc to Labrador Retriever working at Los Angeles International Airport.
TSA uses canines as part of its security operations nationwide and also trains about 300 of them each year. Each canine recruit spends 16 weeks in training at the TSA Canine Training Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio. The calendar includes fun facts about each featured canine selected from dozens of entries submitted by TSA canine teams from around the country.
Download the calendar here.