The University of Arizona (UA) established and implemented a non-invasive system for detecting and monitoring jaguars (Panthera onca) in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011. The PI of this study has expertise conservation genetics so the contract included a genetic component. The genetic analyses involved scat collected with the help of a scent detection dog and collected opportunistically from citizen scientists. During the project, 51 jaguar scats were genetically analyzed for species ID and 17 of those were verified as jaguar in the Culver Conservation Genetics Lab. These scats now provide the opportunity for ongoing diet analyses of the jaguar.