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‘He’s in His Terrible Twos’: K9 Dog Lito Starts at NCPD
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Following a three-month stint at the K9 Academy, there’s a new New Canaan Police Department dog in town. The 19-month old German shepherd dog, Lito, is named after the late father of NCPD K9 Officer Sebastian Obando. “He was named after my father who passed away when I was a brand-new officer, right out of the Academy,” Obando told NewCanaanite.com on a recent afternoon. “My father’s nickname was ‘Miguelito’—that’s what his brothers and sisters would call him. So I just shortened it up.