Dogs hone skills to catch poachers
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RISING SUN, Md. - In the middle of a remote campsite, Warden stopped and began scratching at the ground where an ammunition magazine was hidden by officers under a pile of dried grass.
In another minute he found a shotgun shell.
And in another, he found a holster.
"When he starts to scratch to indicate he's found something, we throw a ball at him," said Cpl. Casey Zolper, a Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife enforcement agent. "Everything is a big game to him."
Like other black Labrador retrievers, Warden's favorite game is fetch. But he plays for a different reason.
Warden and Zolper were practicing article detection - a training exercise designed to help in the enforcement of regulations against poaching. Warden and dogs that work with environmental police units in Maryland and Pennsylvania are spending five days at the Boy Scouts of America's Camp Horseshoe in northern Cecil County to hone skills used in investigating hunting violations.
"We actually have quite a good bit of poaching throughout the whole state," Zolper said.
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