Moss was basically a hurricane of energy.

He was a lot to deal with, and he's really just a dog that needs a job.

So this has not been done before.

Using detection dogs to assist With captive breeding of wildlife species Captive breeding can be quite challenging for Tasmanian devils over the generations.

The behaviors that they would typically demonstrate when a female is ready to breed is becoming quite subtle.

So the detection dog project came about as we were hoping that we could find a non invasive way to determine when a female should be paired with a male.

Uh huh.

So these dogs are very glamorously smelling the feces of the Tasmanian devils, and they are placed on what we call a cent wheel and the dogs cracked and walk around this carousel.