Many of us have been attending graduations these past few weeks. But in St. Louis, there is one school where, instead of caps and gowns, graduates wear fur coats. Friday was graduation day for class # 204 from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police K-9 School. this is a school for dogs whose bite is worse than their bark.

"You have that emotional bond with it but he is also your police partner, they are willing to do what they can to help you," Officer Dan DeSpain said.

His new partner is Titan, a German Shepherd dog whose specialty is searching for narcotics. Lacy the Labrador is assigned to officer Vince Kleinigger, and you may be seeing them around.

"I am going to be assigned to Metrolink, we ride the train back and forth and we just go on calls for any suspicious packages or anything we check the platform to make sure everything is all right," Kleinigger said.

David Backes, and his wife Kelly, helped move dogs from a crowded no-kill shelter in Farmington, Missouri to a more spacious Humane Society in St. Charles. The St. Louis Blues Hockey Team may have the day off, but one of its players was hard at work helping abandoned dogs find a forever home.

This was not an easy or clean job, but husband and wife dug in with both hands and all their hearts. The dogs came from the Farmington Pet Adoption Center. The Backes family and staff from the St. Charles Humane Society helped move 31 dogs, including a mom and her pups.

Both facilities are no-kill shelters, but that is part of the problem. "Quite often, the employees will show up in the morning to work and there will be a bucket of puppies, or a dog tied to the gate," said Beth Hasse of the Farmington Pet Adoption Center.