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I’m in a full-on push to finish up the Vella project (just five more episodes!), so this weekend’s guest video posts are brief, with a news focus. Thank you so much for your encouragement and interest!

I hadn’t heard of the organization until finding this article:

An orange-vested border collie trots ahead of a group of field biologists, nose to the ground. His bell jingles as he turns 180°, skirting along the edge of the dense jungle. He stops abruptly and lies down, glancing over his shoulder at me. I take a few steps and gasp, “Oh, interesting!”

A pile of quills, bones, scat, and old tissue lies between Barley’s front paws. The biologists gather around, squatting and putting on gloves to poke through what Barley has found. He waits, quivering in anticipation. One scientist confirms that Barley is correct: He’s found where an ocelot killed a prehensile-tailed porcupine. Grinning, I give Barley’s marker word (“catch”) and throw a squeaky ball for him.

Barley and I first met six years earlier, when…

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That is quite a hook!

K9 Conservationists is on YouTube, but almost all of their videos are (understandably) about dog training.

Here is their overview presentation: