Correctly trained Mantrailing Bloodhounds possess an amazing ability of scent recognition approximately three (3) times more powerful than any other breed of dog.

The Bloodhound has been recognised as the premium tracking dog for several hundred years and there is much documented proof of their unbelievable capabilities when used in Search and Rescue or Law Enforcement. The Bloodhound is the only dog that when correctly trained can be trusted to remain only on the scent it was presented with at the beginning of a trail. It is able to work correctly in extraordinary amounts of contamination from humans and vehicles as well as climatic and weather conditions. Where the scent is selective, a Mantrailing Bloodhound differs from the conventional General Purpose Patrol Dogs in that General Purpose Dogs are trained in many functions. For example, obedience, handler protection, criminal apprehension, tracking (usually non scent selective), evidence search and narcotic detection or some other odour detection such as explosives or cadaver.

This means these dogs are being utilised in many facets. The scent selective bloodhound is a Specialist Tracking Dog and is not expected to do many functions. The dog has to specialise in the function that the breed was originally purposely bred for. The dogs are raised from the age of seven (7) weeks with only one function in mind, and then they are purposely trained to utilise their olfactory capabilities.

• The Bloodhound can eliminate all other scent contamination and can give you a direction of travel, hence giving valuable information to a search or case.
• It is possible to quickly tell if a person has or hasn’t been to a suspected location.
• It is possible to identify persons by their individual odour like a scent fingerprint.
• Bloodhounds can trail after thousands of people have been over the track.
• We have the ability to track for many kilometres in virgin bushland or urban and commercial environments.
• Severe weather conditions such as torrential rain and extremely hot sun do make tracking harder, but not at all impossible.
• A correctly trained scent selective Bloodhound can easily track persons on a bike or motorcycle or in a motor vehicle.
• With the latest available technology, scent evidence can be taken from a crime scene without touching or destroying other forensic material. Any objects touched by humans can be utilised as a scent to start the dog – even spent cartridges out of a firearm.

We can supply many references and testimonies to our Mantrailing Bloodhound’s successes. We have hundreds of print media articles on all of our past work. Please contact us on 07 3208 5222 and we'll be happy to answer your questions. Please check this section regularly as we are in the process of adding new information.