Meet the dog on a mission to protect some of Britain's rarest birds. Red cocker spaniel Jinx is using his powerful sense of smell to sniff out rats blamed for decimating seabird populations on the tiny islands that lie off the Welsh coast.
The three-year-old will counter the threat faced by species including Puffins, Kittiwakes, Black-headed gulls and Arctic Terns from brown rats that prey on their eggs and chicks, and even attack adult birds.
Jinx, the UK's first ever conservation detection dog, has been training with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for the last two years. But he won't be expected to catch the rats, just sniff them out.
