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    Python-sniffing dogs in Florida start successfully tracking invasive species

    Florida is turning to the dogs to help solve its Burmese python problem.

    The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has been training dogs to track down pythons for more than a month. Last week, one of the dogs had its first successful find.

    Truman, a black Labrador retriever, found an 8-foot python in the Rocky Glades Public Small Game Hunting Area in Miami-Dade County on Dec. 8.

    "We've got to stay innovative," Eric Sutton, FWC's executive director, said Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. "We've got to try new approaches and the detector dogs is just one area where we're doing that."

    ...The dogs are trained to alert their handlers when they find a python and to stay 3 feet away from the snakes since they've been known to eat small alligators and small deer....

    Python-sniffing dogs in Florida start successfully tracking invasive species | Fox News

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    Snakes stink so it makes sense that they can train a dog to find them.

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