Hounds performance

[treeing walkers]

there has been times when i've been out huntin and the dogs seem not to be firing on all cylinders. Take for instances one huntin trip. I was out for 3 days 3 nights. I was huntin the dogs the whole time unless i was back at camp eatin or sleepin. I forgot the dogs food so they where eating mine and a buddys left overs. In that huntin trip I had 6 hard long races. one of the races they covered some major miles they never left this canyon but they where down there runnin circles for over 3 hours through some really thick stuff, ending in a no catch. getting all the dogs back after about 4 hours or so. All the other races where around 1-2 hours long. On our way home a critter crossed the road right in front of the truck about 30 yards away, I dropped my top female on it within a minute tops of seeing it and she went straight to the chase. I then dumped in my younger dogs on the same spot and they too where gone. They where right on it runnin it hard. about 30 mins. into they treed atleast thought. started climbing in to them and it jumped and the race was on again. an hour later they lost it ?? Now my question is how could they of lost it ?? where they just so tired they couldn't keep up ?? did they not get enough food ?? was it just a fluke ?? Or did they just get flat beat on a critter they where dumped too only secs. on it's arse ???

[Black&TanMan1]

When you figure out why a hound does something weird like that let us all know. Why can you turn out on a bear that was seen in the road 12 hrs before and trail it up and tree it, then turn out on one thats in the road and cold trail for hrs or not even be able to start it. I dont believe their is anyone who can honestly answer that. But there will be some who think they know why.

[Bearkiller]