BATON ROUGE - Prior to every LSU home game, the campus police department sweeps the entire stadium, checking for any suspicious objects.

During the sweeps LSU Police Department bring out its K-9's. The newest K-9, Gilbert, joined the unit about two months ago.

"He does his job very well, but he is still a puppy. He does a little bit of jumping. He does pull a little on the leash, but we're working on that, " K-9 Officer with LSU Police Department, Benjamin Gensler said.

Gilbert is a one-and-a-half-year-old English Lab.

"Gilbert is a food reward dog, so he does not eat unless he trains, so rain or shine, we are training every day," Gensler said.

Gensler says Gilbert's primary job is looking for explosives.

"So we imprint them on different explosive odors and everything, when they cue

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