Utah, a Labrador retriever, earned the nickname the "$27 million Dog," by sniffing out more than 150 kilograms of illicit drugs including cocaine, heroin and MDMA. ABC News of Australia doesn't explain where Utah got his name.

At Parliament House in Canberra, Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus praised Utah:

"The largest haul of drugs that he ever detected was something like 400,000 ecstasy pills, which were worth on the market $27 million."

Utah is retiring to live with his handler Yencie Fogden in Yass, New South Wales.