I Am Sure We Have All Heard Of Sniffer Dogs,

which are trained to sniff out drugs, but they have some problems, 

they are big and need a lot of space and exercise, in answer to that, behold, the sniffer squirrel! no it is not April 1st. the Police Dog Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment in Hechuan District, Chongqing has successfully bred the first batch of drug-sniffing squirrels in China, it is not as crazy as it at first might seem, scientists have been aware of squirrels’ keen sense of smell for a long time,

so it was a natural progression to take their skill one stage further, Yin Jin, the lead trainer of the Hechuan police dog brigade, told journalists that he and his team managed to train the six squirrels using internally-developed technology and training methods, the rodents were reportedly trained to scratch at the place where they detected drugs. and being smaller than dogs can get to places dogs can not, the article is here at SHINE, squirrel drug sniffers, who would have thought it?