It's important that everyone watching understand, this story was not designed to be sensationalized. I enjoyed seeing the inner workings of the Abilene Police K-9 unit, but when I was on the receiving end of a police dog's bite, I was glad that I wasn't actually a criminal because to the dog, it's no laughing matter.

"We spend about six weeks in intensive training," explains Officer Kevin Easley. "From then on it's a constant training program for the rest of the dog's life."

Officer Easley and his partner, Rocko, hit the streets together, and Rocko is capable of just about everything that they may encounter while on patrol. One of the most stressed exercises, though, is tracking narcotics. "We constantly train these dogs to be better and better at locating all of the illegal narcotics."

Most of the time, these dogs are even tempered, and live with the handlers. The officers say the dogs know when they're at home it's time to be a dog, but when it comes to the bad guys, "They know it's time to go to work," says Officer Easley.

There's a lot of trust that is built into the partnership between officer and dog. "This dog [King] acts as my backup. A lot of times other police officers don't have backup in the back seat, I do," points out Officer Kevin Pyeatt.

After being chewed on, I thought I'd try to outrun the dog, but I wasn't that lucky. These dogs are very serious about what they do, and if it weren't for the padded bite suit, this exercise would've been a lot different.