Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Officer-Technician Mark Malloy can tell you what makes a good canine handler. He has spent a career watching dogs work and never gotten tired of it. What he did not expect was that his son would end up alongside him, protecting the White House Complex.
His son Mikhail joined the Secret Service as a canine handler because he loved the way dogs work and he wanted a partner he could bring to work every day, something he spent his whole life watching his father do.
Find out more about this remarkable family at secretservice.gov/newsroom/behind-the-shades/2026/08/following-his-fathers-paw-prints
#nationaldogday
Officer-Technician Mark Malloy can tell you what makes a good canine handler. He has spent a career watching dogs work and never gotten tired of it. What he did not expect was that his son would end up alongside him, protecting the White House Complex.
His son Mikhail joined the Secret Service as a canine handler because he loved the way dogs work and he wanted a partner he could bring to work every day, something he spent his whole life watching his father do.
Find out more about this remarkable family at secretservice.gov/newsroom/behind-the-shades/2026/08/following-his-fathers-paw-prints
#nationaldogday
