A public defender dog story

What happens when your pup doesn't know the code to your parents' house alarm, from Preaching to the Choir:

3 cops greeted us on our driveway. (I'm such a PD, my first instinct on seeing the cops was to tell them they couldn't come in to the house!) They insisted they wanted to go in first and clear the house, but I insisted all they would find was a 16 pound cocker spaniel...