Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Africa Back from my Zimbabwe safari... Aug-Sept 2015

Cool beans Doc!!

The poaching thing got my attention. The last Working Dog Consult I did was for Conservation Dogs...they wanted advice on training them to track poachers in Zambia. Since I have a good background in K9 tracking for bad guys, and good knowledge of what takes place in the bush...I seem to be uniquely qualified.
It was an interesting session, and I hope the dog folks got enough out of it to keep most dogs/handlers alive.
Here is a dog from my program the Conservation people snapped up, he is not a tracker, but a scent dog, trained to work road check points for Ivory, Rhino horn, and any type of weaponry. He is kicking ass finding guns mostly, has two armed guards 24/7 and a price on his head.
Because of the complicit nature of it all,I had to tell the folks involved to never let even the handler know where and when the checkpoints would be set. Your post reminded me of that.