a ? about wild boar

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[JDJP]

I don't think so, if you have ever crossed the path of a boar hog in the woods, well in florida anyway, they have this very distinct musk. Now that could depend on if its a bar hog, or the environment, maybe what they are eathingwhere they bed, and what they are rubbing on. Down south here youll see pine trees with no bark, and gashes out of them up to 3 feet high. boar hogs like to get a good layer of pine tar/sap on their chests and withers for protection from fighting. so that could play a good part as well.
JMO
hope you find your answer

[longshot]

A hog is a HOG. My dogs will track and bay any pig no matter the amount of time it has been in the woods.

I have also hunted the same pack of dogs in West Texas Desert conditions, Texas Hill Country(rocky, moutainous), South Texas Scrub brush and East Texas PIney woods and swamp lands. We even had to help eliminate some domesticated hogs that escaped from a hog farm(pretty pink pigs)

We caught hogs in all of them so I am lead to believe that Hogs may bary in smell due to their enviorment but a Hog Dog is a Hog Dog and will track any of them.

Longshot

[txmaverick]

I do believe there is a differance in smell, it may be just the strength of smell I am not sure but here is an example I have seen with my dogs.

While in the box they have all winded hogs from the truck and will sound off without seeing the hog, even doing so getting close to my hog pen.

But driving next to a "hog farm" where hogs can be seen, they never sound off, even with me stoping just to see, (yes the wind was right) they look at them and you can see they are thinking about it but dont. I do agree with longshot for the most part as far as a hog smells like a hog no matter, but there is alot to be said about diet and scent an animal leaves. Again it may just be a matter of the strength of scent and not that there is a real differance.

I know from experiance a boar killing livestock or other animals smells much worse than one that isnt, even to the point that the meat smells bad. If diet effects the meat that much wouldnt it effect thier scent as well?

Scent trails are left from skin folicals that fall off of every animal or human and it has been proven that dogs actually follow these trails not the "foot steps" or other things we have commonly thought. Now skin is produced by what we eat just like everything else ..........so diet I believe plays a much bigger role in scent than some may agree with.

The old saying comes to mind "you are what you eat", could it be mean more than just our weight?

A hog smells like a hog because of its DNA but could there be differances from one to the next, I believe so. If there was no differance in the way a species smelled within its order then a "man" dog would never need to smell the garments of the lost person and the first person the dog saw or smelled would in his mind be the one he was after.

[longshot]

Mavrick,
WOW I am impressed. DNA, skin Folicals, diets, etc..... Man you took that to a whole new level. Have you thought about teaching a biology class?


I really liked the bit about the footsteps. Dogs dont "smell" like our "thought process" works and lots of times we wonder why a dog wont work somthing we think they should. THen other times they can take a track we would have never imagined. That is why it is so much fun!

Good reply
Longshot

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