Great article today in The Age newspaper about dogs in our national parks.
Usually we hear only complaints about dogs and native animals, and I do understand that we can't take dogs into areas where we need to protect native creatures.
But this is a video with a difference. An exciting discovery has been made, a camera shot of a spotted quoll in a place where they have not been seen in recent times. So sniffer dogs have been brought in to try to locate scat (poo) of spotted tiger quolls.
I really enjoyed the film, but unfortunately, on this occasion the dogs did not find any quoll scat.
You might want to read more about the quoll conservation program in Cape Otway, which is where the highly trained sniffer dogs come from.
Reading about these dogs reminds me of the hunting dogs who were trained to kill rabbits but ignore grey-headed albatross.
Aren't dogs amazing?
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