The best breeds for search and rescue are intelligent, trainable dogs who have powerful scent and tracking abilities. Hounds, for instance, have an extremely keen sense of smell, and other breeds have ...

Bloodhounds date back to a seventh-century Belgian monk but they began to be developed in Britain some 500 years later to hunt rabbits, wild boar and deer. Described as “a nose with a dog attached”, ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation Marshal Service added tracking dogs and one Robo-Dog to its unit. Tip and Odell, two tracking dogs, are able to track missing people by smelling an item and ...

Cat Warren, author of "What the Dog Knows," talks about what scientists know about working dogs and their powerful sense of smell.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office now has K-9s that can track missing people, including children or at-risk adults — the first working team of its kind in Colorado.

Wolverine Search and Recovery hosted a training for human remains detection dogs and their handlers from around the country in Detroit last week. Dogs and handlers work closely to track scents of ...

The Wildlife Society reports that organizations like the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference and Working Dogs for ...

The smallest of the hounds, the beagle is a superb tracking dog because he can get close to the ground. Beagles have a curious, friendly temperament that makes them good at staying focused on their ...