if you want dogs that can grub out old tracks look for cat dogs, the dogs that hunt cats hunt an animal that is smart and leaves significantly less scent. This was the hardest part for me was to find plotts out of dogs that were catching cats on a consistent basis. When I did you could see the difference in the dogs and I now train my dogs on cats first and teach them to learn how to pull the small scent particles out the ground and use thier noses better, than you can go to something stinkier like hog, bear or coon
You keep saying that. I guess I'll have to come camp with you for a year when Freyja gets old enough to start. Not enough land or cats here to train that way.
