Have any of you guys heard of this program? I am attempting to get an internship with them this summer, and hopefully everything goes smoothly.
Basically, they use a modified narcotic/ search and rescue program to train dogs to find the scat of rare species. It saves money (so important in conservation work), and has a high success rate.
" The ideal detection dog is extremely energetic with an excessive play drive. These dogs will happily work all day long, motivated by the expectation of a tennis ball play reward upon sample detection. The obsessive, high-energy personalities of detection dogs also make them difficult to maintain as pets. As a result, they frequently find themselves abandoned to animal shelters, facing euthanasia. We rescue these dogs and offer them a satisfying career in conservation research."
The dogs currnetly being used are ACDs and ACD mutts, Labs and Lab mutts, a border collie, and a dobie mix.
I'm going to WV State University and majoring Biology and minoring Parks and Recreation. I hate school with a passion, always have, I wish I could just come and study what I want to work in and be done with it. But one must be the well rounded individual to survive in most of todays work enviornments, or so thats their excuse for making me take all of these ridiculous classes I'll never need .
I'd love to be majoring in wildlife science, but thats not an option for me.
How do you like the program? What school are you going to?
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I hate to be the one to mention this but my dogs so far haven't needed training to find poop... no matter the species it belongs to. The hard part is finding out what the poop came from before they eat it or roll in it. *ducks*
Sounds like an interesting program though just the same. ^.^
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How do you like the program? What school are you going to?
I go to SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse NY. Honestly, I love it. I get to learn all sorts of cool things.
If WV State is the same as WVU, you guys have a student chapter of The Widlife Society, you should look into that if you like wildlife.
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I hate to be the one to mention this but my dogs so far haven't needed training to find poop... no matter the species it belongs to. The hard part is finding out what the poop came from before they eat it or roll in it. *ducks*
Sounds like an interesting program though just the same. ^.^
Haha, they don't just find any poop, but scat from specific species. They are taught to ignore others, and signal when they find the target species (not eat it) lol.
Wow this is COOL. I'll have to put this on the list for potential grad schools. I got a BS in Forestry and Watershed Science from Colorado State and this economy is making me think I need to go back and get some more learnin in me
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