I'd have to agree with Cutter on the nose on the ground trait with Treein Walkers. I have owned many Treein Walkers and all of them ran with their head in the air once it was jumped. Nose on the ground of coarse when trailing. Just sold my last one to a buddy of mine in north florida to buy myself a garmin for my cur dogs
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Here is how you tell the difference, when a Foxhound makes a lose on a bobcat or fox it searches around heads up for the scent funnel, when a treeing walker makes a lose it goes back to trailing nose down, this is where they usually never recover, they will lose the track right there or start backtracking on the already run track or lose enuff recovering the gap is not closed, a fox hound will cast out and pick up the track heads up, not nose down. Most treeing walkers are not good on bobcat or fox, they trail too much before they jump, sure somebody catches 2 or 3 cats and calls themselves cat and lion hunters with treeing walkers but in the thick hot texas brush it is not happening. Hogs put out so much scent you prob never see the difference unless u hunted both kinds of hounds on both types of game. Too have a good pack down here where i live one had to hunt 2 or 3 times a week with 10 foxhounds to regularly catch bobcats, never seen a treeing walker bobcat pack down here i can remember, they dont have the bottom to be roaded all night and them have a 1 hour race on a bobcat in a thcik cactus patch or whitebrush thicket. Lots have treeing walkers who catch a cat or 2, but down here there used to Runnng Walkers packs that got 200 bocats and 5 to 10 lions a year depending on rainfall.
