Rogue Detection Teams

A beautiful read. Highly suggest everyone who needs a bit of hope these days. 🙏🏽🐾

We're obsessed with the article! We loved working with Tosa for scat detection on her research and we were especially excited to see mention of our detection dogs in your article 🙏🏽🐾

Loved seeing Marie's 🦨 research featured! This mention made our day👉🏽 "Researchers, who used detection dogs to sniff out skunk scat, found poop full of yellow jacket carcasses, an apparent spotted skunk delicacy." That's our late Conservation Dogs, Chester, Scooby, & Jack 🥲

Skunk research that our late Conservation Dogs, Chester, Scooby, & Jack worked on, in @highcountrynews.org 👉🏽 "Researchers, who used detection dogs to sniff out skunk scat, found poop full of yellow jacket carcasses, an apparent spotted skunk delicacy." We 🖤 working with M.Tosa for this research🙏🏽🐕🦨

Our #ConservationDog, Filson is in a children’s book, 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘴 by Andrea Rowe (& even has his own coloring page)! 🥲 We’re so proud of his hard work for wildlife & for inspiring the next generation wildlife biologists.

Sniff it out: www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

Squee! Is this not the cutest journal cover ever?! Congrats to M. Delheimer for his photo, & excited for this new research publication alongside @mellenmartin.bsky.social & others.

In @esajournals.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

So excited to have played a part in this research alongside @mellenmartin.bsky.social & others. Martens are near & dear to our fuzzy Wildlife Detection Dog hearts, & they were thrilled to detect samples for this study. 🦦💩

@esajournals.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Can it get any more cute?! So excited M. Delheimer's photo made the cover and even more excited to have been part of this research with such an incredible team. 🙏🏾🐾 Yay, martens & congrats on the publication!

[📸: Marten scat sample with a paw from our Detection Dog, Echo, for scale]

Filson says he still can't believe @oikosjournal.bsky.social chose this pic! Awoo! He appreciated the opportunity to contribute to wildlife surveys in Yosemite NP alongside this team of amazing researchers. 👏🏽🐾

💙 Excited to have participated in this dynamic wildlife research alongside Martin et al.(2025) in Yosemite NP. By our side when we snapped this pic? Our cowoofer, Filson. 👇🏽 We're grateful to his nose for all the data he helped detect!

-With @mellenmartin.bsky.social

Our (very!) collaborative look at the lives of carnivores in Yosemite gets a feature thanks to @roguedogs.bsky.social amazing camera work 😊 Yosemite is an ecological and aesthetic marvel!

Having worked w the Forest Rangers on this special project, we can attest firsthand (or 1st 🐾😉) to how amazing this project is. 🐆🙏🏾 "Your gift will support research through camera trap monitoring & scat surveys across 4 of Bhutan’s largest natural areas."

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

Climbing to new heights for noninvasive wildlife research! Our #ConservationDogs are currently on assignment for endangered Sierra Nevada red fox surveys in the Eastern Sierras. The views are epic, but to get here takes some effort 😅🐾🤘🏽 Work in collaboration w California Dept of Fish & Wildlife

Newsletter Launch! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀: roguedogs.org

Join us as we share our Conservation K9's stories:

🐾 Meet the wildlife we sniff for
🧬 Learn about our noninvasive research
⚙️ Revel in our gear reviews
💅🏽 Get pro tips from our Bounders
💝 Squee over our 🐕‍🦺 adoption stories
🐕 Support our conservation efforts

Look what Rogue Ranger found during his wildlife detection surveys! Our dog teams follow the clues to find the data, and sometimes it leads us to fun field finds like this elk shed.

Atta boy, Ranger!🦌

YouTube video by Rogue Detection Teams Invasive European Green Crab Detection Utilizing Conservation Dog Teams

Learn about this impawtent pilot project in this short 🎥! youtu.be/ghF2zscnYpM?...

A black and white dog with floppy ears carefully inspects a green crab with pinchers stretched towards the dog's nose, during odor detection work.

Careful you don't get pinched, Jax!

Wildlife Dog, Jax, on assignment for 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 🦀 (𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘴) in pawtnership w @noaa.gov

Traditional lands of the qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌, Makah Tribe

Penguin guano is an important source of climate-relevant aerosol particles in Antarctica - Communications Earth & Environment Penguin colonies emit gaseous ammonia that enhances new particle formation processes in Antarctica, according to online observations of gaseous ammonia and aerosol particles from a coastal site in Ant...

Penguin poop gives off ammonia, which enhances cloud formation and cools coastal Antarctica, allowing more penguins to poop there, probably. 🐧🧪

📣 Help our #ConservationDogs prepare for their "impawtent" role as #Bumblebee Nest Detection Dogs!

We're looking for BB nests to teach our dogs the odor! 👇🏽🐝🐕‍🦺

We would not be who we are today without our 🌈 Dogs. We hope they know that our #ConservationDog program exists because of their special souls.

Thank you for your service to #nature & #wildlife.
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And can we get some Paws Up for our retired and semi-retired crew??! 😍 These pups may have slowed down, but they ♥️ still love their "job" for #wildlife, and will assist in gentle detection projects. 👉🏽 🐛🦋🐝🐢

A special nod to our Seasonal Rogues 🤘🏽🐕‍🦺 : The personal #WildlifeDogs of our seasonal Bounders (👈🏽 Our word for our Detection Dog Handlers).

We're 🍀 and adopted these 4 "newbs" into our #ConservationDog family this past year 🥲🥰👇🏽

Meet Our pack of Wildlife Detection Dogs!: A field guide to the many furry faces of @roguedogs.bsky.social 👉🏽🐕‍🦺🌍

A cattle dog with an open mouth and long tongue, "smiling" after playing fetch with an Earth shaped ball.

A cattle dog with an open mouth "smiles" at the camera standing in front of an Earth shaped ball he is playing fetch with.

Happy #EarthDay from our pack of #ConservationDogs. From semi-retired (Filson, L), to new recruit (Echo, R), our dog teams work diligently in service to the environment, detecting data on wildlife. Whatever may come, we are grateful to "pawtner" with such dedicated cowoofers in service to nature 🌎🐕‍🦺

Honored to present at the Endangered Wildlife Trust, African K9s in Conservation Conference 2025. We're sharing the legacy of #ConservationK9 Scooby who spent 2 yrs sniffing for lions, cheetah, leopards & wild dogs in 🇿🇦 & 🇲🇿. Find this research: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🧪 This is *why* our Wildlife Detection Dogs work so hard to detect data of endangered species... It's all about the 💩!

🎥: Sierra Nevada red 🦊 surveys w Dr. Sacks's Mammalian Ecology & Conservation Unit at @ucdavis.bsky.social Veterinary Medicine, featuring our #ConservationK9s, Filson & Whisper.

How a dog's nose became a powerful tool for science and conservation : Short Wave On their second job ever, Collette Yee and her partner were assigned a difficult job: locate transient whale poop in the ocean before it sinks. Luckily, Collette was partnered with Jack, a blue heeler...

🧪 @npr.org's #science podcast, Short Wave interviewed @roguedogs.bsky.social's C. Yee about her work alongside #ConservationK9 Jack for orca research! Get the scoop:

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www.npr.org/2025/03/05/1...

Thank you! We're keeping our paws crossed that many of our wildlife projects will still occur. It's just a scary waiting game. 🤞🏾