![]() With his partner in tow, Nick led investigators to a farmhouse nearly a mile away where the arsonist was still hiding out. Although he arrived on the scene more than 100 hours after the barn had burned down and had to face myriad smells, many of which were also obscured by the charred remains of the blaze, he still managed to find a scent trail after circling the area several times and took off after it. In one instance, Nick was brought to the location of a massive barn fire, which was largely suspected to be a matter of arson. On numerous occasions, Nick did what most thought to be impossible. It was a combination of his resolve, patience, and pure natural skill. By the end of his career, he was credited with over 650 finds.īut the numbers alone aren’t what make Nick’s career so impressive. By 1903, Nick and his partner had already sent 126 criminals to jail working as a duo. Together, the team worked so well together that they sometimes even drew crowds just to watch them work. Mullikin, a well-known detective in his own right, during the early 1900s. Nick Carter worked alongside his handler Captain G. Stemming from a historic line of tracking dogs, Nick was born in 1899 and within a few short years, he already was climbing the ladder to working dog stardom. But to be fair, the canine Nick Carter did actual, real-life tracking and detecting, not just the fictional type.ĭespite his funny name, Nick Carter the bloodhound did serious police work with what is considered to be the best nose in all of the canine kingdom. If his name doesn’t sound like an all-time famous dog-tective, that’s because it was a fictional person’s title first, namely the popular dime-novel private detective first published as far back as 1886 that continued on in several similar iterations over the next century. ![]()
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