Can You Track A Lost Pet?

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Danny Meek

Can I use another dog to help track my lost boxer, Billy? He has been missing for almost two weeks.

Dan                                                            Los Angeles, California

Dan, it depends.

I went to the website, Missing Pet Partnership, for some help to answer this question.

According to their site:

   "It depends. If the lost pet is a cat, turtle, snake, or small animal that does not tend to travel too far and you have a specific area where the search dog can be used to conduct an "area search" then, yes, a search dog could potentially be helpful. That's because instead of attempting to track a scent trail that was deposited by the lost pet, the search dog would be searching for a "scent cone" or the cloud of scent that would be coming off of the animal where it is hidden... If on the other hand the lost pet is a dog that has been missing for a month, the chances are that the scent trail (that your dog deposited when it left the escape point) is probably no longer there for a search dog to pick up. In fact, the oldest known scent trail that a search-and-rescue dog has tracked was 13 days old..."

Visit their website here for some great information on finding lost pets.
 

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