Seen a few gyps who would backtrack the first hog we caught and find the rest of the group. Sometimes it felt like they could count. Most those same gyps would leave a bay and be running as soon as they saw us walking in with bulldogs.
Boogie was a proficient track dog. When he would slow down and was working an old track, he would hit every leaf, tree or bar wire the hog might have rubbed up against.
Seen a few dogs who were very good at drifting a track. As race was happening they would hit a road and eat up a ton of track and still bay the hog.
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G'day TShelly and other post's,
Great read, TShelly please excuse my ignorance but what do you mean when you write dogs who werevery good at drifting a track ??
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I dont want to speak for TShelly, but the way i took it in analyzing how dogs run tracks, is you have the ones who follow every step "trailing" the hog, then you have the ones who will run the track from one point to another point, if done properly results in running the same track faster. As a side not its also interesting to watch if a dog stays with the same track no matte what or if they will take off on a hotter track when crossing it on the original one... different styles all work, i generally like all but prefer the one that runs the track faster
Yessir pretty much this. Alot of our dogs like to run a track a lot more than bay. Some will cheat the system, catch a road, eat up a lot of ground and get back on the track way ahead of where they would have been if they stayed step for step.
Running a track they run the scent trail in the air a lot more than the ground scent of that makes sense. Not necessarily head up or head down all the time, just whatever the conditions dictate. Some of those same gyps as stated above seemed like lighting on track bc of their ability to drift.
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