Sniffer Cat Meets A Fishy End

The BBC has an article about the contract killing of a Russian sniffer cat, who worked at a checkpoint close to the Caspian Sea.

I kid you not! Rusik was adopted as a stray and proved so successful in pointing out where smugglers were hiding sturgeon, that the Russian Mafia took out a contract on him. Hence, poor little Rusik was deliberately run over on Friday and killed.