Cold Trailing

I feel a dog can learn to take a colder track but not taught. The biggest part of that is the nose the dog is born with. The amount of oil factories in a dogs nose has a lot to do with the breeds represented in the dog. Some breeds simply have more than other. The more they have the better they can pick out a particular scent. While a dog may learn that if he keeps following this faint smell it will get stronger he is still limited by his ability to smell faint smells. Beyond that limit is the dogs desire to finish the trail. If you have that dog with the desire and the nose then it takes time letting that dog figure it out. If u have a cold nose dog to put with it that could help the dog straighten out those spots where it loses the scent. I have watched cold nose dogs work an old track. They spent almost as much time circling back to pick the track up as they did moving forward. U could see when they started getting hotter by the lack of circling back. These instances take lots of time and lots of patients with a try love of watching the dogs work. The fact is not every dog is gonna cold trail but a good dog man should be able to see it and move on or see the ones that have the desire and give them the chance to figure it out. These are the things that seperate a dog man from a hog man.

Shotgun
Arkansas