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 FWC has been using python-scented towels and pythons with implanted trackers to train Truman and another dog named Eleanor.
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