Hounds- The original hunting dog!

I never have understood that part of it myself. Once that hog breaks bay he aint gonna quit running till his hoofs fall off are he is just flat stopped. Now the other part yeah silent tracking because if you are a convict and broke out of prison and you make it a long ways away and your hiding out in the thick woods and you dont hear any sirens you gonna take it a little easy and if the cops are quite and sneak in on you you are busted but if you hear a bunch of sirens closing in on you from a mile away you are gonna run like hell putting as much distance between you and them as you can! That to me is thedraw back to me a open mouth hound.