sarx
Verified Expert/Professional in SAR and K9SAR
Waves and thanks to you two for my doggy edumacation. Question for the experts because I'm working on a dog theory.
Trailing dogs! Well, we know baby Lisa didn't walk out of the house and get lost in the woods. She obviously was carried or driven somewhere. IMO
Reports are trailing dogs we're used in day 2 or 3 of her missing. Dogs were used in woods searches around the home and reportedly but nothing was found. (according to reports) A man with a carrying a baby with only a diaper on, reported x 2. I beleive one of those persons has been found and his lead was eliminated.
Question: Do you think a trailing dog would have picked up on the baby's scent if a baby was carried away from the house? If no scent was detected, is it more likely the baby was put in a vehicle and driven away?
You are most welcome!
Disclaimer-All talk is based on well trained dogs, and using the right dogs, if they are not then all bets are off, lol.
I agree, I think it's safe to say she did not walk out on her own.
In regards to babies and trailing dogs, I've seen some interesting results. Babies smell different to us and to dogs as well. We were lucky to have a baby in the family to use for training and therefore had a very reliable group of dogs on baby trails, however I have seen a fair share of dogs that have had a lot of trouble picking up a scent of a trail laid by a baby in a stroller or being carried. Why? Is it the smell of the baby, is it the way scent disperses differently when the subject is being carried or pushed? Is it a combo? Regardless, it is something to take into consideration and I think important to know whether the dogs have trained on the kind of scenario.
So, there are a lot of variables going on here, without info. on their background, I'm not sure we can really say.