OLD TIMER
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Minnesota
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Is it nose or is it brains and patiences??
Some say that they can all smell the same--I disagree with that idea because I have seen way to many times that hounds put down on the same track, which makes EVERYTHING the same, with your good "track" hounds will take it and work it up to a jumped race. Nose is connected to the brain and I have seen my coyote hounds smell the brush that rubbed the coyotes body when deer ran out the scent of their paws. I have seen videos of hounds out west lick the rocks to "taste" the scent of a cat to keep the race going. And it all ties into those GOOD COLD NOSE hounds having the patiences to work a track when the going gets tuff. The "ambush" hounds in todays hunts have turned out to be a little better on having a raccoon in their trees because they will only take a hot track while the hounds a few years ago that had no patiences to work a track would just quit and start treeing. As Dave Dean told me, "breed for the card."
As far as the comments of a hound not being able to take a track that just crossed the road--you have to let them "clear" their nose from being inside a box of bedding, down a dusty road. Doesn't matter if its a raccoon, bear or a coyote. Just go a 100 yards pass it, stay calm while putting their collar on and lead them back to the track and see if you don't have a better result. Nothing more funny to watch then an animal cross in front of a hunter, brake lights come on and hounds hit the front of the box, hunters jumping out and crabbing hounds, putting trackers on (most times forgetting to turn them on) and throwing hounds in the ditch to see them looking back like, "What the heck???"
Experience is still the best teacher a hounds person can ever have.
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