Scent-Sational Sniffers Brentagne


On 11 September 2001, terrorists hijacked two planes and crashed them into the World Trade Centre in New York City. Both towers collapsed, leaving people trapped under 1.8 million tons of rubble. Human rescue workers had no way of knowing where survivors were stuck. But their canine counterparts did.


Search-and-rescue dog Brentagne was one of the 300 canines that used their trained sniffers to hunt for humans in the disaster zone. Though she was only two years old, the golden retriever seemed to realise the seriousness of the situation. She tirelessly searched through twisted steel and charred ruins, working 12-hour shifts for 10 days.


Didi


Africa’s elephants are in trouble. Poachers illegally hunt the animals for their tusks, which are carved into figurines and other tokens that fetch top dollar on the black market. Experts predict that elephants may become extinct in some parts of Africa within 50 years.


Luckily, these jungle giants have a fellow four-legged creature fighting for their lives: dogs that are specially trained to hunt down the illegal hunters. The Big Life Foundation, which trains these poacher-sniffing pooches, rescued German shepherd mix Didi from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya in 2011 and started teaching her to track poachers hiding in the bush. In just three years on the job, Didi brought six criminals to justice.


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