Dogs and Frogs

Sometimes, when I go to check my camera traps, there are small animals hanging out on them. There have been several small lizards recently, and this cute frog on one camera trap.

I also spent some time with the anti-poaching dogs recently. Ol Pejeta started out with just two bloodhounds to use as tracker dogs to sniff out poachers, ammo, and carcasses. Then they got one Belgian Malinois as an attack dog whose job it is to run down and attack poackers running away. Last year, they brought in a British guy named Daryll who used to train army search dogs to work with the attack dog Tarzan. Pretty soon, the plan became to get 11 new Malinois puppies and train them up from scratch as attach, tracker, and patrol dogs. So now there is a whole dog unit dedicated to anti-poaching here! It is already beginning to have a big effect and other Conservancies are looking to establish dog units of their own. Here is one of the original bloodhounds, Lux, with his handler.

 And here is Tom (who is here for a few weeks filming promo videos for Ol Pej) filming Lux after a tracking demo.