Dogs With Extraordinary Jobs

A great Dane assists a 13-year-old girl living with a limiting condition, a border collie helps the California Task Force search for survivors, and Ruger sniffs out illegal poachers in Zambia.

At a South African airport, bird-chasing border collies are preventing potentially devastating collisions with aircraft. In the British countryside, a sprocker spaniel's extraordinary sense of smell are playing a vital life-saving role.

A German shepherd mix and a firefighter from Los Angeles search for survivors of a mudslide, spaniels search for underground water leaks, and a Labrador learns how to read.

Using their protective instincts, one dog becomes a running mate for a blind woman, a pack of canines protect rhinos in Kenya, and a border collie looks out for visitors in Glacier National Park.

Dogs are using their remarkable scenting skills for lifesaving conservation and pro-active environmental policing. In Canada, a team of canine detectives is sniffing out the destructive invasive zebra mussel.