Working Dog Max at Work Conservation Canines Postcard

Conservation Canines Postcard featuring Max, a handsome Australian Cattle Dog born in 2005. Max works with Conservation Canines and is trained on Wolverine, Northern Spotted Owl, Barred Owl, Grizzly Bear, Black bear, American Pine Marten, Tiger and Leopard Scat detection. Human population growth and consumption are placing ever-increasing demands on the environment. Monitoring these impacts requires reliable and accessible measures of wildlife abundance, distribution and physiological health, collected over large landscapes. The Center for Conservation Biology’s mission is to develop and apply such noninvasive field, lab and analytical methods to address pressing conservation problems worldwide. Our dogs are happy to work all day traversing plains, climbing up mountains, clambering over rocks and fallen trees, and trekking through snow, all with the expectation of reward – playing with their ball – after successfully locating wildlife scat. We rescue these dogs and offer them a satisfying career traveling the world to help save numerous other species.