Albatrox is a dog of the breed Border Collie approximately 6 years old and residing in Zaragoza, he was precisely rescued from its streets in 2014 by workers from the “Zaragoza Municipal Animal Protection Center”And by then he was about 3 years old.
The people who rescued him narrate that Albatrox is very, very active, restless and nervous, which was possibly the reason that his owner abandoned him in the streets, since you have to know how to deal with dogs like that, seeking professional help and being patient.
The curious and impressive history of Albatrox
Paradoxically, these Albatrox features they became a fortress that came to offer this aforementioned dog, being the ideal candidate to be trained in the field of dog poisons, motivated by the concern of how the deaths of dogs proliferate, after the ingestion of food left in the street that contains toxic elements, such as rodenticides and other fatal products for these faithful animals and worse, without responsible.
When they ran some training tests on various dogs, Albatrox was the one that best responded compared to other dogs.
How does this training work?
This is a training that requires time, skill and patience. It can take a minimum of six months and should consist of making looking for poison traps is a game for the dogmentions his coach.
The dog must lie on the ground as soon as it detects the poison and without even bringing its nose close to the trap, in the process it is trained with several options until it reaches the poison. Every time you do it correctly you are rewarded, in your case with a ball.
In this way, for what seems to us a job, for Albatrox it becomes a nice activity and that allows you to occupy your time in useful things that calm your nervousness and channel your restlessness.
His trainer tells that the dog already knows when they take him out to the street just by seeing that they are going to put his special harness on him, expressing his joy immediately.
The dog does at least three runs daily with his coach, focusing on the green areas of the city of Zaragoza; If they don't find a trap, Martinez hides a fake bait so that the dog finds it and thus remains attentive and motivated.
Many are the Albatrox colleagues who daily expose themselves to these traps that unscrupulous people place in the city, the difficult thing about their work is that they hthere are more than 200 green areas and it is impossible to go through them in time, so there are still victims, so the idea is to find a partner so that they can cover more areas at the same time.
To make the situation worse, now they also add sharp objects to these traps, like pins, for which it is planned to train another dog so that it can detect them.
Jobs like these are highly commendable, although under no circumstances is it justified to end the life of an animal for sheer pleasure and in a quite atrocious way, so both the handler and the dog deserve attention and recognition for what they do.
In any case, and thanks to his daily training, this dog has been worthy of important recognitions, including one that awarded him the “Illustrious College of Veterinarians of Zaragoza”; It is also very appreciated by the residents of the city, who are very fond of it and show it with affection.
It is important to note that there are other organisms such as Pacma, who have created a page to monitor the areas where they put traps, the recommendation is that if you find any suspicious object, you should go immediately to the authorities, the Police and the Animal Protection Center, the object must not be removed, since there the possibility of obtaining evidence for investigations is eliminated.