Reader's Views On Imprinting

Subject: Re: imprinting

Date: 12/23/00

I have heard of dogs chasing Big feet, one that comes to mind is over in Russia. A women reportedly had and encounter with a Yeti and her little dog barked at it and chased it off into the woods. Also The Wild Women of The Navidad, a Texas story about local hunters driving the surrounding woods with hounds after the wild women and chasing her across a clearing back in the 1800s.

I have had experience in hunting hounds and some will not run anything you put them on. Some hounds will only chase one particular thing. That could be a form of imprinting. Though some will chase anything they come across, depends on how hot the track is. I hunted with deer hounds for years, deer hounds are really fox hounds that are trained or would prefer to chase a deer than a fox. We mostly got our good deer dogs from fox hunters cull hounds and coon hunters also.

Blue Ticks, Red Ticks, Red Bones, Treeing Walkers, Plot Hounds, Black and Tans, are mainly used for treeing or baying critters like cougar, raccoon, bear, and bobcat.

Running Walker Hounds, American Foxhound, Trig Hounds, and the English Foxhound (what are running walkers) prefer to chase long distances, they are good for running in a very large area. Beagles are considered rabbit hounds and have very cold noses and good for small blocks of woods .Cross breeds with all of the above prove to be effective in all areas of chasing game. I once had a Basset hound that was the best deer dog in the world. He was light brown and white splotches in color and was a excellent cold nose trail dog. After he would jump the deer he would run so fast that his back legs would moving faster than his front legs, that when he crossed a road he would be running sideways. I also had one hound a cross between a Black and Tan and a Running walker, he would run fox, deer, raccoon, opossum, bobcat, but would not chase a bear.

My opinion is that Plot Hounds would probably go after a BF. They are mean natured dogs and are used for bear and cats. I have often wondered why BF's don't like dogs. It probably started with wolves attacking their young, and the same for the wolves with BF taking revenge. When a wolf is hungry it will take its chances when it can. A pack of them would be hard to fight off, a lone BF might be in for it.

Mark

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