tracker dog

noun

1. a dog specially trained to hunt fugitives or to search for missing people

Example Sentences

More than 40 State Emergency Service volunteers, WA police, park ranges and the tracker dog team had combed the area since Thursday.

From The Guardian

He had always been the scout, the tracker dog.

From Literature

The sensitivity of a trained tracker dog might be hard for humans to match.

From The Guardian

The police in Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, used tracker dog units to hunt the gunman.

From New York Times

Amy Yee reported for National Geographic about an effort in Kenya that trains dogs to sniff out ivory, and Paul Steyn wrote about a tracker dog program in Tanzania.

From National Geographic