‘Invaluable assets’ not to be sniffed at

Danny, 3, and Halo, 5, were trained over nine months to sniff out chlorine in portable water and have detected 50 water leaks since starting on the job in October 2018 in a Queensland first.

Their handler Dennis Gannaway said the springer spaniels can detect a leak from up to 40 metres away. “Their sense of smell is about 40 times greater than humans,” Mr Gannaway said.“They are trained to drop their noses to the ground when they find the leak and then are rewarded…



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