tracking dog
Nose-led pursuer
A tracking dog is trained to follow scent trails, used for hunting, search and rescue, or law enforcement.
Unlike pointing or flushing dogs that locate stationary game, tracking dogs follow the path an animal or person has taken: The tracking dog picked up the scent where the hiker was last seen.
Bloodhounds are the quintessential tracking dogs.
- scentAirborne odor detected
- on the scentActively tracking something
- bloodhoundScent-tracking dog breed
- scent houndDog tracking by smell
- trailPath through wilderness
hot trail · hunt · nose · sniff · ground scent · leash · handler · search · search and rescue · rescue · hound · beagle · pursuit · quarry · fugitive · paw · wilderness · missing
- working animalsherding, gun dog, guarding, pulling, hunting dog
- working dogspolice dog, guide dog, K9, herding dog, detection dog
- scent trackingscent trail, pheromones, scent hound, ant trails, nose work
- huntingdeer hunting, hunting rifle, hunters, hunting license, hunting season
- detectorsmetal detector, smoke detector, motion detector, heat detector, lie detector