Coon Hounds & Coon Hunting.........

I dunno, mine does. And he points birds too. Whatever trail is the hottest. We haven't worked him for any of it - but about a month after we move to a place there is not a squirrel to be found. Then the bunnies finally take the hint and start moving to a lower pressure area at which point he takes to pointing birds. He prefers rabbits, but will take what he can get and I'm sure if we dedicated any time to "Yes, we want you to hunt squirrels" he'd be pretty good at it.

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Hi all. Hubby is an avid hunter of all and everything. Although, he says that beagles and almost all breeds will hunt if something runs in front of it, prey drive and all that. He is currently working out a deal with a buddy for a "squirrel dog". Most times, it is a terrier of some kind, Rat, Manchester, Jack Russel, etc. We met rabbit hunting, he had and still has, the best rabbit dogs. He also got me into fox hunting. Not the kind on horseback. We have Walker dogs, same as coon hunters. Unfortunately, like someone else said, we can no longer hunt on the "outside" - running the hounds through the farm land. People who move out to the country, buy 2 acres of land, and think they own the entire countryside. But that's another topic. We now hunt in fox pens. Large tracts of land fenced in, and the dogs are judged for speed, trailing, tracking etc. It is really a great time and the fox is not killed. I love to hear the hounds especially when they are first turned loose. Hubby has a bumper sticker, "Once the tailgate drops, the BS stops" Take care, Rebel

I hunt humans with my bloodhounds...

Search and rescue dogs. My girl has 2 capital murder conviction assists, and 3 Alzheimer's walkaway finds. My boy hasn't had a find other than training due to few callouts these days (he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer,) but he's got a heck of a nose on him. Fortunately, few missing persons out my way in the past few years...

The bassett hound is our vertically challenged bloodhound. She's also the most opinionated of the lot. Oddly enough, we found her while conducting testing for search and rescue a few summers ago. She's definitely a daddy's dog, drapes herself over DH and refuses to leave him.

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I have a couple of neighbors who hunt coyotes with walker hounds.They start the hunt with two real rough looking tough old dogs and they have six other dogs they use.They tag team them-----when one pair gets tired they release a second pair.They run the coyote until he can't go anymore.It is a sight to behold.Another neighbor thought he would try it.He turned his dogs onto a coyote and they took off,pretty soon here they came running to the truck with a coyote hot on their tails.Talk of the neighborhood for a while.

When I was breeding Rottweilers I used to work with a search and rescue group locally. Very interesting training and fascinating work. I never got to the point where I had a certified search dog, but one I raised that went to Colorado was the first Rottweiler to be certified as a search and rescue dog in that state.

Several of my dogs went into police departments (as personal dogs but used with the small local departments) and they had basic search training as well.