cold nose pups

cur dogs for the most part are heads up hunters , they do have a nose on them but don't use it enough on colder tracks . YOU CAN work with the dogs and have them ol curs grubbing out older tracks like a hound . i started out by just laying drags of various ages and working the dogs into it and incurageing the dogs to FIND EM wich is the command i use when turning out to hunt . i stopped working and testing my catahoula's on two hour old tracks . and tested the theory and principles of my traing method on wild hog tracks that i knew the age on by wittnessing the hogs earlier in the day . this is actually no differant than training a cur dog to work as a blood dog on old tracks . just lay drags and work the dogs on it and by you knowing where the trail is , if the dogs stray from the track heal them up and put them back on it and encourage them to FIND EM . it works for me and many others no reason why you can't do the same . it's just encourageing the dog to youse it's genetic inheritance and change it's style of hunt .