While working as a deputy sheriff in Lake County, which is a small rural county in the northern part of Michigan's lower peninsula, I went on a call of a breaking and entering of a mobile home. I arrived to find the owners outside the home, and quickly discovered the home had been broken into. The damage to the doorway was obvious. It was winter time, and all footprint evidence was being covered with a snowfall. My department did not have a tracking dog, so I made a request for a tracking...