Agata (dog)

Agata is a female yellow Labrador Retriever drug detection dog who works at Leticia, Colombia. In 2004, Colombian drug barons placed a US$10,000 bounty on her head, making her one of the only dogs to ever have a bounty on its head.[1] This resulted in the dog and her handler being given a body guard. The bounty was the result of her abnormal skills at drug detection, having stopped more than three hundred kilos of cocaine, worth more than seven million dollars, and twenty kilos of heroin.[2][3] She was decorated for her work.[1]

References
  1. "$10,000 Bounty On Head of Top Columbian Drug Dog". Digital Journal. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  2. "Police dog's life in danger". BBC. January 29, 2007. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  3. "Dogs With Jobs". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 29, 2013.


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