hi /out/, i figured either here or /k/ would probably be the best place to ask this; i've been exploring various semi-abandoned soviet facilities for the past couple of years, and I always find myself running into the same fucking problem: dogs. I have no problem avoiding detection by man patrols, but if they ever have a dog with them, it'll detect me before i've even spotted the patrol, instant game over. I'll wind up some combination of bitten, jailed, beaten and fined. I'm planning a trip to chernobyl fairly soon and I'd like to spend more than a day there before getting caught by a fucking dog.

I know you can very quickly kill a patrol dog by crushing up broken glass and leaving it along your trail, but I'm not trying to kill a dog, I'm just trying to avoid the thing. Does anyone have specific tactics for breaking up or masking a scent trail? is there anything that fucks with their senses without actually hurting them? Any type of terrain that they can't easily track you through?