Search dogs for lost snakes

[Anatopism]

Dogs are definitely more trainable though. I would trust a dog not to harm someone's snake much more than I would a cat, mongoose, honey badger, or any other animal. In that regard, dogs are amazingly awesome. However there will be a lot of training work ahead, and my guess is you'll have to train it to recognize each species, because they probably smell different at least to a dog.

This is why you train it to be an ordinary search/scent dog and train the same as you would for tracking in the field. Don't train it how to recognize and find snakes, but rather train it to pick up the scent you give it (a whiff of newspaper or aspen from under your snake's favorite resting spot) and to follow that scent to it's conclusion.

This way, there is still work outside of the highly specified niche of snake finding. lol