Many air scenting dogs are cross-trained to trail or track and can do so if the area is undisturbed and the track is not too old. Carry it in a Ziploc or paper bag. Use bag turned inside out to pick up item, or, use metal tongs or coat hanger. An air scenting search dog is useful for covering large areas fast, with the least amount of forces committed to the search. Some search dogs can work debris from floods, mudslides, tornadoes, explosions, plane crashes and earthquakes.
Some search dogs can work avalanches.
Some search dogs can search for evidence of crime. Search dogs can locate drowned people in the bottom of lakes, or in rivers, or all bodies of water. Gases escaping from bodies rise to the surface and a dog in a boat will give an accurate indication. How It Works Bodies, alive or dead, give off rafts of cells and gases and vapors constantly. These airborne cells and odors act like smoke.