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This is a tough one to sniff out!

Two Florida drug busts are currently causing a stir in the Supreme court, all thanks to a couple of dogs doing their jobs.

In the first case, police received a tip from Crimestoppers that a house had illegal drugs. Franky, a loyer drug sniffing dog, smelled the outside of a house door before the police got a warrant.

Franky smelled drugs so the cops got the warrant and searched the home, where they found marijuana.

The second case is about a dog named Aldo. An officer and the pooch stopped a truck with expired plates.

Aldo sniffed the air and the police searched the truck and found chemicals used for crystal meth.

Case closed, right?

Well….not so fast

Tags: aldo, dog, drug sniffing dog, drugs, florida, franky, government, legal matters, pets, politics, supreme court

California had a law that would require downed livestock to be euthanized to keep their meat out of our food system.

When an animal comes to a slaughterhouse and can't walk, California would make sure they were euthanized, but now a federal court has ruled that California can't amend federal laws set by the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service.

One of the justices said:

Tags: california, cow, downed, law, meat, pig, slaughterhouse, supreme court