Cute dog pics anyone? This is Echo & Whisper, two of our #conservationcanines who are hot on the sniff for an endangered species. The going is tough, the fieldwork is intense, & searching for data on a rare species in logged old growth makes us sad, but at least our cowoofers are adorable 🥰

Because doing 20-minute paintings of muppets is saving my soul right now. Here's Animal!

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🐕 Tune in to a LIVE chat with @opb.org featuring @roguedogs.bsky.social cofounders as they talk about our furry pack of rescue dogs turned Conservation Canines, & all the hard work they do for wildlife & the environment. www.opb.org/show/thinkou...

Excited to be presenting at the African Wild Dog United Conference, sharing about our experiences assisting endangered wild dog & big cat research in S. Africa & Mozambique. -Research at Nelson Mandela University w our late #ConservationK9 Scooby 🔗wilddog.org

A beautiful read. Highly suggest everyone who needs a bit of hope these days. 🙏🏽🐾

Skunk research that our late Conservation Dogs, Chester, Scooby, & Jack worked on, in @highcountrynews.org 👉🏽 "Researchers, who used detection dogs to sniff out skunk scat, found poop full of yellow jacket carcasses, an apparent spotted skunk delicacy." We 🖤 working with M.Tosa for this research🙏🏽🐕🦨

Our #ConservationDog, Filson is in a children’s book, 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘣𝘴 by Andrea Rowe (& even has his own coloring page)! 🥲 We’re so proud of his hard work for wildlife & for inspiring the next generation wildlife biologists. Sniff it out: www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

Squee! Is this not the cutest journal cover ever?! Congrats to M. Delheimer for his photo, & excited for this new research publication alongside @mellenmartin.bsky.social & others. In @esajournals.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

So excited to have played a part in this research alongside @mellenmartin.bsky.social & others. Martens are near & dear to our fuzzy Wildlife Detection Dog hearts, & they were thrilled to detect samples for this study. 🦦💩 @esajournals.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Our (very!) collaborative look at the lives of carnivores in Yosemite gets a feature thanks to @roguedogs.bsky.social amazing camera work 😊 Yosemite is an ecological and aesthetic marvel!

Having worked w the Forest Rangers on this special project, we can attest firsthand (or 1st 🐾😉) to how amazing this project is. 🐆🙏🏾 "Your gift will support research through camera trap monitoring & scat surveys across 4 of Bhutan’s largest natural areas."

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

Climbing to new heights for noninvasive wildlife research! Our #ConservationDogs are currently on assignment for endangered Sierra Nevada red fox surveys in the Eastern Sierras. The views are epic, but to get here takes some effort 😅🐾🤘🏽 Work in collaboration w California Dept of Fish & Wildlife

Newsletter Launch! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀: roguedogs.org Join us as we share our Conservation K9's stories: 🐾 Meet the wildlife we sniff for 🧬 Learn about our noninvasive research ⚙️ Revel in our gear reviews 💅🏽 Get pro tips from our Bounders 💝 Squee over our 🐕‍🦺 adoption stories 🐕 Support our conservation efforts

Look what Rogue Ranger found during his wildlife detection surveys! Our dog teams follow the clues to find the data, and sometimes it leads us to fun field finds like this elk shed. Atta boy, Ranger!🦌

Careful you don't get pinched, Jax! Wildlife Dog, Jax, on assignment for 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 🦀 (𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘴) in pawtnership w @noaa.gov Traditional lands of the qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌, Makah Tribe

Penguin poop gives off ammonia, which enhances cloud formation and cools coastal Antarctica, allowing more penguins to poop there, probably. 🐧🧪

📣 Help our #ConservationDogs prepare for their "impawtent" role as #Bumblebee Nest Detection Dogs! We're looking for BB nests to teach our dogs the odor! 👇🏽🐝🐕‍🦺

Meet Our pack of Wildlife Detection Dogs!: A field guide to the many furry faces of @roguedogs.bsky.social 👉🏽🐕‍🦺🌍

Happy #EarthDay from our pack of #ConservationDogs. From semi-retired (Filson, L), to new recruit (Echo, R), our dog teams work diligently in service to the environment, detecting data on wildlife. Whatever may come, we are grateful to "pawtner" with such dedicated cowoofers in service to nature 🌎🐕‍🦺

Honored to present at the Endangered Wildlife Trust, African K9s in Conservation Conference 2025. We're sharing the legacy of #ConservationK9 Scooby who spent 2 yrs sniffing for lions, cheetah, leopards & wild dogs in 🇿🇦 & 🇲🇿. Find this research: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🧪 This is *why* our Wildlife Detection Dogs work so hard to detect data of endangered species... It's all about the 💩! 🎥: Sierra Nevada red 🦊 surveys w Dr. Sacks's Mammalian Ecology & Conservation Unit at @ucdavis.bsky.social Veterinary Medicine, featuring our #ConservationK9s, Filson & Whisper.

🧪 @npr.org's #science podcast, Short Wave interviewed @roguedogs.bsky.social's C. Yee about her work alongside #ConservationK9 Jack for orca research! Get the scoop: 💩🐳🎙️ www.npr.org/2025/03/05/1...

Just got our 1st call, likely not the last: one of our wildlife projects is at risk. We rescue shelter 🐕, who 💕 🥎, to find endangered species & support noninvasive wildlife research. That's it. We don’t ask for much. Just the chance to help our natural world. Uncertain times ahead. 😔💙🌎

Here is a sign-on letter for individual scientists and other experts to speak out and protect NOAA. I signed it and I encourage you to sign it as well. secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

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Love it! "Bad Doge" signs at the #protests

I would love to see photos and videos of the protests you joined today! These are from Spokane, WA. RESIST!!!

We love anything to do with scat science 😜💩🐕

So excited to attend @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social Sierra Nevada Red 🦊 Working Group meeting & see our #ConservationDog Filson featured for his work w this endangered species! 🙏🏾 to project partners @ucdavis.bsky.social. Our dog teams 🤎 using their noses to sniff for 🦊💩 for 🧬research!

When working dogs don't know how to quit... Our 15-yr-old retired Conservation Dog, Pips, sitting proudly next to a pine marten scat he detected. Thank you, Pips, for all you hard for for wildlife over the years 💞🐕

Just us watching the evening sky last night with Canis Minor right above us. Was this a sign for us? 🥲🐕💫🖖🏽 #StarryNight #Awoo #WildlifeConservationDogs

In Finnish the word for aurora “revontulet” means “fox fire” because according to legend the origin of the Northern Lights are arctic foxes running so fast that their large, furry tails would brush up snowflakes into the sky - as in my #linocut #FolkloreSunday minouette.etsy.com/listing/1632...

Happy #ConservationDogDay from our pack of wildlife detection dogs! We 🎉 our current #DetectionDogs while also remembering the "tailblazers" like our late Alli, who opened the door to this field & methodology. 🥲 📸 Alli on assignment in CA for noninvasive pine marten research, 2006.

Read an interview with a Rogue! Our Co-director, J. Hartman shares about Life As A Wildlife Detection Dog Handler (or "Bounder" in Rogue speak). Thank you to Canvas Rebel for sharing #herstory. 🙏🏾🐾 canvasrebel.com/check-out-je...

Just a couple of Rogues in Australia! Thanks for our T-shirts @roguedogs.bsky.social!

It was a very Rogue Year in Wildlife Detection: 2024 was (bio)diverse! We're grateful to our "pawsome" collaborators for their dedication to noninvasive wildlife research. Here's looking at you 2025 (& all the species our #ConservationK9s will sniff for). 🎊🧧🐕‍🦺 #NewYear2025

Retired Conservation Dog Pips, living his best life by the fire. 🐾🔥 After 15 years of service, he deserves all the naps. 💛 Among his achievements? Finding threatened Oregon Silverspot larvae—tinier than a grain of rice—after 40 years unseen in the wild. 🌼 Sweet dreams, Pips. ✨🐶 #WildlifeHero

#Thankful for our pack. These are the rugged Field Scientists, human & #K9, who trek the wilderness for data on imperiled species. We are grateful for their dedication & commitment to #Wildlife. 🐾🌎 📸: Noelle/Mako; Matilda/Jax; Collette/Dio; Grace/Ranger; Juno/Stern; & Colin/Siska.

#DetectionTeam Juno & Stern just wrapped up black 🐻 surveys in Michigan w UT State Univ in collaboration w MI DNR. Let's give the team 3 "awoos" for their hard work. They braved frosty mornings, camping in the 🥶, & long surveys in search of data (💩). Samples have been sent to the lab for analysis! 💪🏿

Happy 12th birthday to our bat biologist dog, Jack! Don't mind us as we toot Jack's horn on his big day! 👇🏽🦇 hibernacula research he sniffed for with Alaska Department of Fish & Game: www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?ad...

Forget Hot Girl Summer. I want Golden Retriever Winter: * drink lots of water * demand walkies on the daily * wear stupid sweaters * get really excited to see your friends * chill out in a sunbeam * find someone to brush your luscious hair * eat that protein * if someone seems sketch, bite them

An intriguing collection of books on conservation and environment to add to the reading list in 2024! 🌏🧪 #scicomm news.mongabay.com/2023/12/10-n...

2023 was an exciting year Sniffing for #Wildlife! 👉🏽 https://youtu.be/9lMFFAJcM9s 🙏🏾 to the researchers, Universities, agencies, & organization s who worked w our #ConservationDog Teams. 🎉🐾🐕#Awoo

Whaddya think? Did our pack of shelter dogs turned Wildlife Detection Dogs make the Naughty or the Nice List? You get one guess... Go!

🌾 Grass Seed Season 🌾 From skin irritations and piercing, to potential infections, it’s the time of year when pesky grass seeds require our attention, both at work and at home. You can read about all our grass seed steps here: www.skylosecology.com/post/grass-seed-season-check-check-and-check-again

Hello 💙☁️! If you don’t know us yet, we adopt 🎾 obsessed shelter dogs & give them a new lease on life as #WildlifeDogs! Our “Conservation Canines” sniff for clues on endangered species & assist wildlife research endeavors! We hope you’ll follow along in our adventures in conservation science!