Dog foils pusher's rabbit, python to find drugs

(ANSA) - Genoa, April 4 - A police sniffer dog foiled a drug pusher's bid to use a domestic zoo including a cat, rabbit and python to put him off the scent, police said Monday. Umos, a labrador trained by Italy's tax police, was unfazed when he found a large dog, a cat, a rabbit and a python facing him when he was led into the flat of a 22-year-old near La Spezia. The police dog leapt over the large dog and the other animals to face off with a royal python measuring almost two metres, which the pusher was using like his other pets to cover the smell of his marijuana. Umos "soon turfed out the snake and we found the man's cannabis as well as equipment to process it," police said. "He was fearless". The pusher went to jail while his animals ended up in a dog pound, cat shelter and local zoo, police said.