Just about the time you think you have heard it all, along comes a story that makes you laugh and scratch your head all at the same time. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has a new mercury investigator and he works fairly cheap.
Its Clancy the mercury sniffing dog that goes around to different schools checking to see if any remaining mercury spills have gone undetected.
He's the country's only known mercury sniffing dog. And, he roams the halls of Minnesota schools with his owner, Carol Hubbard. "They trained us like a drug or bomb team. It's just a different substance," says Mercury Specialist Carol Hubbard with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
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"I say to him, 'Clancy, find Quick." He was taught to sit and stay." Clancy gets a special reward if he finds any mercury. Hubbard says they find about 40 percent of schools they visit have some sort of mercury spill, usually in the plumbing.
Read the full KTTC-TV posting here.
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