Sparky the Border Collie cross has a very important job ahead of him, a few months ago Sparky was selected by MNK9 as a suitable canidate for detection training.
Sparky has a great personality and is just crazy over his toy which makes him very trainable for detection work. Sparky completed his foundation training at MNK9 teaching him to detect and indicate on a find. Sparky is now at Carnarvon Gorge undergoing further testing and training to ensure he is suitable for the quoll detection.
The dog has to be very social towards all animals and show now distractions in his working enviroment. Once this stage of training is completed Sparky will return to MNK9 for the last stage of training then go back to Carnarvon Gorge for final operational testing and training.
Sparky’s job will be to locate endangered Quoll populations around Queensland and we wish Sparky and handler Amanda Harris every success in this important project.
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