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your not like i said before i have a dog that has bloodhound in not full blooded but she is a great cat dog.

Bloodhounds have great sniffers on theim but their heavy dogs and heat up easy in my country i had a couple of bloodhounds and dont any more they just could not hang with my other dogs I hunt year round for sheep eating bobcats and i personaly like walkers and walker crosses for my bobcat hunting they seem to handle the heat pritty good and the ones i have are breed small cold nosed and tight footed, but they do not have as tuf as feet as the blood hounds do but all dogs seem to have at least one negitive about theim.I have had the chance at running some running walkers bred in with some beagle and found that to be a D*mn good cross for bobcats, I just sold my cross to a guy in Texas and kinda wished i didnt he was only about a year and a half old and i had allready cought 2 Lions and quite a few bobcats with him, He wasent the best start dog but he rilly would put the heat on them old hard to catch stubby tails, but difrent country takes difrent dogs look at Bart Lancasters dogs Big and have to much wait for my country in south eastern NewMexico them dogs are great dogs but are bread for his country and used mainly on snow If i used theim down here they would die of a hart attack or heat stroke and my dogs would freeze to death in his country. Difrent breeds work in difrent country just find a breed that works for you in your country. posting.php?mode=reply&f=72&t=9283#

blood hounds can and will make a dog but most wont tree and you can have a problem with your other dogs not picking up the sent for hours but a blood hound doesn't eat much more than most dogs and they ARE NOT A SLOW LAZY DOG!! I have had several in my life and they have a ton of drive. lance griffon in georgia has blood hounds that are naturals but they are brightons bloodhounds an english breed more leggy and sleek than a akc dog that is the breed that most search an rescue uses. I say take her but be carefull as they grow slower than most hounds and you can hurt there joints if they have a bad fall untill about two years old, maybe even lift her up and down out of they truck. Also if you plan to breed her know that they have huge litters 16 is not uncommon and untill the pups are 2 or 3 weeks old that female may eat your lunch for getting in with the pups because they are very protective mothers but are very good mothers also, they dont normally smoother pups like the big gascons will. GOOD LUCK AND KEEP EM TREED!!

i run a four year old akc registered male out of kelly waterman i believe in missouri. he is awesome at moving a cold trail bear or lion, aggressive on bear. lacks a little in a high speed scent race where other dogs lift there head and run he still persists on trailing every step which slows him behind the others a bit. however he makes up for the time when a critter is jumped, his sight chasing speed exceed that of smaller hounds due to his huge stride and he locates and trees like hell. not to mention a decent rig dog on the box. his biggest downfall is his dog aggression i can not run him around other packs of hounds he is doing pretty good around mine now but it has tooks work, far more than i would put into another hound. his strong domince continually gets the best of him even after repeated training sessions ( there size makes quick work of standared hounds) if it was not for my desire to cross a good bloodhound into my pack he would of been gone long ago. now all i can do is wait and see if it breeds out of him, his first litter is expected any day now to a bud hutchins bnt.
the biggest keys i have found is to run them light and they take about three times as much work to keep in shape which is essential to there performance. they are not a breed that can sit around for weeks and be expected to perform. jmo. if you like the breed give it a try but be prepared for some laughs when your horse pops out of the box.

I have found mention in writings clear back to the 1400's of that aggression you write of.

yes all the research i have found talks of it. although they claim to have tried to breed it out of them. it is a terrible shame to see the same hound friendly enough for my little boy to ride around the yard have the desire to shake your buddys top walker dog like a rag doll every time it comes around, not to mention every other male that steps out of somebodys box.

Don't listen to any of the discouragement that you will get from people. I had a bloodhound male for a while and he was awesome he didn't ever get aggressive with any of the other dogs he was around. Unfortunatly I did not hunt my blood... If you have a Female blood I wouldn't be too worried her being too agressive. Please keep at least me informed of how well she is doing. I posted that same question a few weeks ago and just got shot down. Keep your head up and if nothing else you will have a best friend that (belive me) is about impossible to let go.

I know what you are thinking right now so just keep at it and work with her as much as possible. Put as much into him as you can. Hell I know a guy that trained a golded poodle to hunt and tree just to prove that it can be done.

It had been awhile since I'd been on here, but justed wanted to thank you guys for the feedback. Maybell is started and doing damn fine so far, but we'll see where it leads us. Its been interesting to say the least... We HAVE bred her now, she had 11 pups LOL. She wasnt agrressive with me , knowing I'm her daddy and I wouldnt ever hurt those babies. BUT she DID try to take another firefighters hand off when he just WALKED into the room. LMAO. Scared the bejeezes out of him. BUT I warned him, he just HAD to see the pups. She hasnt been aggressive towards other dogs "YET" so my fingers are crossed. She does locate and tree like a damn machine though. Thanks again guys for the feedback and honesty. Thats what I posted for.

Just have to put her in the woods and put some time in. One old timer once told me about bear hunting, all of them hounds have ability to catch one but it depends on how bad they want to. Some dogs really want to and others would rather lay around and make turds.
Not much on turd makers.
Big Bite

I just happen to have some of those so called grade dogs. Two year old litter mate males. Half walker,quarter blue,quarter bloody. Hell of good dogs. Rigg good,run trail awsome,tree hard. And there still young dogs. I am very happy with there progres.
Nothing wrong with a little bloody,Dont know about Full blood. My dogs run hard and fast.Dont know if they could keep up with a fast cat.
Just my 2cents. James>>>

Successful bobcat hunters can,t be wrong.
There are a number of bobcat hunters around the country that catch
50 to 300 cats a year on dry ground.
Ask them what breed of dogs they use.
99% use the same breed.
I would say this will answer about any question u might have on the subject.
This is dry ground, not snow, with a high cat population.

im not seeing a full blood ever catching a bobcat...ever. as soon as the bloodhound opened on track for the first time, the cat would be out of the country.would never even get close enough to put any pressure on. and dont bloodhounds straddle a track? how u run a bobcat like that? And why are you breeding her? have you caught anything with her yet?do you want to catch anything? or do you just think they are pretty? not sure what your trying to achieve but someones got to be honest with ya bud. wrong breed for cats.

If you are trying to catch cats,and not people, get rid of the bloodhound. If you like them because they are pretty, then go ahead and keep breeding. They are the slowest on track. They do not work a track like a good varmant dog should. I do believe that people catch cats with dogs that have bloodhound in them, but it is not the bloodhound genes that catch. To everyone who thinks im being negative im not meaning to be. This is my opinion that i am entitled to share, and its what i believe to be correct. I am open to others opinions and i won't judge anyone for voicing theres. Merry Christmas!

Foxcat,
I appreciate your opinion and respect it whole heartedly. Just got to put out there, if I were breeding and running my dog because it was pretty, I dont think I'd be involved with a big game website, maybe something more "showy". Secondly, how many bloodhounds have you ran? I'm just curious as to your experience with them. I mean I've seen dogs from multiple breeds that are "slower" than others yet you see them a dime a dozen, also, its seems like every other person you talk to is crossing one of those "amazing" dogs with either a bloodhound or some other string to make this "amazing" line even "better". I can understand your reasoning for feeling that way about the speed , but as far as running a track. She's got A LOT of heart and will, I can cut her on a track and she runs in on it a short ways, then does something I call the Bear stance. She stands up on her hind haunches, sticks her nose straight up in the air then cuts straight to the chase. Maybe she'll never run a Mountain lion, but if she keeps showing the stamina, heart and will, she's been showing me. I'm gonna give her a try, damn right. She deserves it at that point.

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