Tireless detection dog helps solve mystery in the Alaskan wilderness: ‘This is probably his last big project’

From TheCoolDown.com:

Meet Barley, who gets to spend all of his time doing what dogs love most: playing outdoors and sniffing poop.

That’s because he’s the first four-legged team member of K9 Conservationists, a company that takes dogs from shelters and trains them to engage in data-gathering for a wide range of scientific work. He’s been roaming Prince of Wales Island finding wolf scat for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This helps the department track population and maintain healthy hunting quotas. Considering how precarious and targeted wolf populations are, it’s great to see them getting support and protection.

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