DEAR DOG LOVER: You know that dogs have a superior sense of smell to humans — well, their sense of smell is also superior to that of most other mammals. The top three tracking dogs are bloodhounds, ...

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”, ...

From tracking down missing people to sensing when their owner needs help, these dogs do it all.

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 ...