Throwback: Lottie the missing persons investigator

Bonus episode of Dogs with Jobs! In the course of researching this podcast, Kate Fairweather talks to a lot of people about working dogs. Here she talks to Jim Noble, who has spent a career devoted to working dogs - gun dogs, police dogs, sniffer dogs, search dogs.  In the early 2000s the Hampshire Constabulary's Dog Unit (as it was then) invested in its first ever pair of bloodhounds, with a view to training them for missing persons cases, owing to their superior scent-tracking capabilities. Jim recalls Lottie's first ever deployment and how she solved her first missing persons case in 2003. The sound's a bit crackly, as this was a telephone interview conducted during lockdown, but the story is gripping and his pride in a superb work partner comes across loud and clear. It was the first of dozens of searches that Lottie completed as a specialist search dog. Do you work your dog? Get in touch with Kate at [email protected]. Caring dogs, service dogs, sporting dogs – the more varied the better! She’s interested in them all and would love to hear from you. © Kate Fairweather, 2021  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.