Is this normal

[T.Hunt]

Saturday I went out lion hunting. The wind was blowing hard, I found a fresh kill, but could not find any tracks due to the snow. I decided to cast my dog into a nearby canyon, and come up with nothing. I spotted a cave at the top end, and decided to check it out. When I got about five feet from it, a bobcat blasted out. My old seasoned lion dog did not see the cat, but was snooping around where the cat had run through. He opened a little, but couldnt seem to figure the track out. Being bobcat season is closed, I caught the dog, and moved on. The same dog a week earlier caught a lion off of a day old track. Does the high winds really affect the scent that bad? I have tried running bobcats in the dirt that I jumped off the road, and have had no luck. I am starting to think the dog just doesnt have enough nose to catch one.

[fox hunter]

sound like the dog dont have the desire or brains to run a bob. lots of good lion dogs just dont have the want to or the brains to run a bobcat. i dont think it has a thing to do with the nose.

[timothy]

Its hard to run anything in a strong wind. From what I hae seen the wind blows the scent away.

[David_Heimann]

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[George Streepy]

Sometimes a red hot track is very hard for a dog to move. I have jumped bobcats in the road and the dogs didn't act like anything had been there. Wait 5 minutes and dogs flat out go crazy. I don't know why. We start our tracks from the truck. One day I came around the corner and a bobcat was standing in the road, and dogs were on the box. The cat stepped off the road and I rigged right by without a bark, whimper or nothing. I went up the road a mile or so and turned around, still nothing. On the third trip through the dogs exploded. They burned off the road and jumped the cat a couple hundred yards out. The cat did one long sweeping u-turn right back to the side of the road and treed. I have video of that somewhere.