when you have been around hounds long enough you can tell the whole story of the hunt just by the hounds voices . wich dog is in the front , when they overrun a track and check back in , how old the track is and when they get it heated up to tthe point where they are looking at it , if they are crossing water . like i said the whole proccess of the hunt is told by the hounds . this is what we did before folks started relying on a screen to know what the dogs were doing . you know when your house dogs are just booger barking or if thay are actually looking at an intruder by their barks hounds and baying no differant .
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When I was a kid I hunted mostly mutts...just dogs that got thrown away out in the country...didn't have any neighbors close by so I had a good supply of dogs most of the time...
but I hunted them most every day and sometimes twice in one day...and, I could tell what they jumped or bayed just by the tone of the bark...a deer and a jack rabbit sounded the same...a large snapping turtle and a large cotton mouth sounded the same, a coon and feral cat the same...a cotton tail had a different bark...I could usually tell by the tone and bark as to what they were running or had treed or bayed...
