Meet the dog helping to clean up litter
One of his owners James Westgate said Logie started picking up litter when he was just a puppy.When he fetched a bottle from the sea, James decided to train him to do more. "Logie picks up anything you ask him to - anything from a Pringles can to a traffic cone he's retrieved from the sea," he said."We can finish our walk with bundles of trash which we then put into recycling or in the bin," he said.James says being Logie's owner is a perfect match."He's obsessed with picking up litter and I really care about the environment, so it's a win-win really," he said.What a good boy, Logie!
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