DESOTO COUNTY, Fla. - People searched nearly five days for missing hunter Jamie Mosch, but it took only three hours for a bloodhound to find the North Fort Myers man lost in the Everglades.

David Pitts has been working with dogs for 16 years.

"They are my life. It's what I've been doing forever."

He said his best bloodhounds are at the Desoto Correctional Institution - Rocky and Max - father and son.

We met Max last week after he found hunter Jamie Mosch in the Everglades. He did it after only three hours of looking.

"The dog picked up the scent and he was still close enough that he could hear our voices. We were headed to him in the right direction the whole time."

The search was a little different than what Pitts or Max is used to.

"You're not going to get out in the middle of woods and start screaming 'Jamie, Jamie' when you're looking for an inmate. Everything we do as far as tracking is a surprise. We want to sneak up on them. The dogs make no sound when we're tracking."

Pitts credits the dogs training.

He said everyday these dogs play hide and go seek with inmates. It's part of their training that runs them up to 20 miles away.

"Everything we do everyday has to be like it's real. The elements are not going to be walking down the road when they escape. They're going to be in the deepest, darkest, nastiest place they can be to keep from being found, and that's the way we have to train."

Pitts said he relied on Max because there were signs that a human was in the Everglades, but they weren't sure if it was Mosch.

Luckily for Mosch, Max's training may have saved his life.