ARTICLE: State monitors cougars with help from a ‘determined’ dog with a super sniffer

This is a story about a dog and poop.

Not just any poop — as any dog could tell you — but droppings from the state’s apex predator: mountain lions.

A lot of what wildlife biologists know about the big cats recolonizing parts of Nebraska can be credited to the nose of a graying Chesapeake Bay retriever named Train.


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