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We've had a snow storm for the last two days, yesterday I told my buddy that the cats were gona move, boy was I right. I turned out on a great track this morning and he travelled so far my poor mutts tired out on me in a bad lose. I was on a ridge over the canyon my dogs was in, listening to the music with a fresh bobcat track 50 yds from my sled ironicly... I had to hurry off the mountain and go the long way to pick up my Ruby dog, when she quits or I call em she hits a road and she takes it and wont leave! When I got service I called my buddy who was in the same boat but unfortunately was on the edge of wilderness when he started the cat. He had to walk into a deep ol hole to get his tired dogs in deep powder snow without his snowshoes. So lesson is cut tracks as fresh as possible on days like these!

I had a similar story a couple weeks ago- i turned loose on a pair of bobcats and was already counting my money.... They absolutely smoked me. One of the dogs did almost 20 miles and I wore myself out on the snowshoes at around 7 miles. I stopped and built a fire and waited for the dogs to figure out that this cat was not going to tree- they just couldn't move through the deep snow like he could.

yeah bobs move quick, alot of zig zagging and they seem to move even quicker in snow

I think just the opposite, the cats will not move far and are far easier to catch in a deep soft snow. In those conditions I will put on most any track expecting to catch it soon. Dewey

I'm with Dewey on this one. If the dogs could move the track they caught the cat for the most part. The deep fresh snow made it a lot easier.

Two week old frozen snow in 0 degree weather is a different story. I hate putting the dogs through that.

A couple weeks ago I let go on a track, I figured about a 25# female, small toes. Well, they cold tracked through 5 different holes I figured the cat would be laying in but went right through all of them. They were in some tags about a 40 from the road angling toward me, barking pretty decent but not jumped. All at once they popped out on the road and I figured wtf, no track on the other side but the side they came out on was dry ground, sun melted out the snow. I walked in and sure enough they had the track. The cat walked the road for about 1/2 mile and found where it went south. Released the hounds again and they got in there a little over a 40 and jumped, the cat circled around and came back for the road and started to run some figure 8's when I fed another dog to them. Turned out, that dog I fed in must have run into the cat right in front of the other hounds and treed. Wasn't a pretty catch, they didn't locate for while because that other feed in dog ran into the main pack and buggered it up for a spell. On the garmin, the cold track was 7.8 miles which took them a couple hours and the jump lasted about 20 min. The cat is still there to run another day...