Red Dog Rising

[SealDriver]

We do something similar with Schweiss Dogs, a dog follows a deer hoof print trail through an area where many other deer have moved around. Again the average age of the trail is 72 hours, although some dogs are able to scent trail out to four day old trails in perfect scent laid conditions.

It's interesting also to watch dogs used by Archaeologists, the dogs can find unmarked graves of people long dead and at least 2-3 metres down in the ground. I watched a clip of a dog finding Roman Graves on a building site. The graves were intact not disturbed yet the dog was finding them at two metres deep. They thought that the dog had a false reading at one point but it turned out that centiries earlier one of the graves had been disturbed by robbers and the dog was indicating on finger bones broken off by the thieves as they removed rings from the corpse.

Should everything go pear shaped, my survival buddies will be my tracking dogs.