Bloodhounds

There is documentation that bloodhounds have been used since at least the fourteenth century to trail human beings.

They are logistically efficient - one dog and one handler.

A Bloodhound team (dog and handler) routinely trains on aged trails 12, 24, 48,72 or more hours old in varied environments and weather conditions.

Courts will accept a Bloodhound team's testimony without challenge if the handler has kept training records which document the hounds’ experience under conditions similar to the case at hand

 
     
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A   Bloodhound team can tell you:
         the direction the subject took from the Point Last Seen (PLS) or Last
               Known Point (LKP), narrowing the search area
         if the person got in a car
         if a "clue" that is found a distance from the PLS belongs to the subject,
               thus establishing a  new LKP and direction of travel
          if a sighting "down the road" or some distance away was real

A Bloodhound can pick a subject out of a crowd of onlookers.

They can trail for miles, right out of the immediate search area.

In the city or residential areas where human scent abounds, along with moving vehicles, a bloodhound
has only the scent of the subject to concentrate on and is on a lead so they can be constrained by
the handler in traffic.
By the way, it is simply not true that dogs can not track or trail on cement and asphalt -- it is done routinely.
Bloodhounds are determined. When concentrated on a trail they are deaf and blind to anything else along the way. 

More information on bloodhounds can be found on the A.L.I.E. web site www.icsrmc.org/alie/alie.htm.

Bloodhound Sources

Bloodhounds are available from these groups or individuals:

Some search & Rescue units have bloodhounds.

The law enforcement unit in charge of the search may have access to well trained bloodhounds.

Bloodhound Investigators Inc.
http://heartbeat-of-evergreen.com/bloodhounds/bloodhound.html
William C. Butler, PhD, CLI
31951 Lodgepole Drive, Evergreen, CO 80439
Phone/Fax (303) 674-9011 K9MANTRCKR@aol.com
800-465-3202 Mobile: (303) 548-1176 Alternate: (303) 674-8317		 
 Central Montana Bloodhound 
  Search Team	(406) 259-7827 (406) 855- 7213 Mobil

Law Enforcement Bloodhound  Association	www.leba98.com/
 manhunters@msn.com

BOOKHOUND SITES

http://www.civil.mtu.edu/~hssantef/sar/others/Hardy/Hardy.html

http://www.icubed.com/~npba/