Panda and Mali aren’t the only dogs in the world that have helped locate human archaeological remains. Rescued shelter cat Sir Indiana Bones is a valued employee of the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City.

Pintar and Glavas speculate that at the site in Croatia used in their study, the porous and cracked limestone on the ridge might play a role in the longevity of the scent there. Rodents provided “ground-truthing”, or confirming evidence, free of charge by digging new burrows and displacing what had been hidden for centuries. Something as subtle as recently disturbed soil can elicit a false alert from a dog that is not rigorously trained.Karen continued to run Good Bones and supported her husband without disclosing his health status to the public. Since Pintar and Glavas’ Croatia study was published last year, several European and Croatian archaeologists have asked them for help in identifying sites, too. During COVID-19 I sadly lost my job however the extra time meant I could increase the dogs I was walking per day. Sullivan was curious, too: “Paul asked me if dogs would pick up old stuff and I said, ‘Only one way to find out’. We decided to go to our local shelter here, the Moore Animal Shelter and indy was just the cutest thing ever.

Glavas had suspected that a fifth site might hold a burial chest, and the dogs’ alerts, combined with excavation, proved her suspicion correct. In their first case, they are on the trail of treasure hidden centuries ago by a legendary knight known as The Lonely Avenger, an adventure which takes them all the way to Egypt and the pyramids.I am fully insured, first aid trained and have spent much of quarantine attending online courses for dog walking. Karen did CoolSculpting on the arms and an EmSculpt Neo procedure on the stomach to reduce belly fat.