HOW DO CANINES MAKE THE CITY SAFE?
Soft and good-natured, Lucy is part of an elite group of scent puppies, specially selected and trained for the work.
She sits next to the trees to show her consider when she smells the condition.
A treatment must be confirmed by at least two recognition cats.
” After one dog detects a good trees, we will install a second dog to double-check. If both dogs sit down by the trees, then we can get quite certain that the tree is sick”, said Sung Fu-hua, chairman of the Taipei City administration’s Floriculture Experiment Center.
There are about 200, 000 branches across Taipei, and Lucy and her staff can assess around 8, 000 branches per month.