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Judging the nose of a Cur

Wondering what you like or don't like regarding the nose on your dogs and how you judge it. I assume the easiest way to tell is with turn out coon. Just keep extending the headstart you give the coon? Since squirrels bounce from tree to tree is there a way to tell on them? And last do you prefer colder or hotter noses and why.

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I like a hotter nose cause like you said squirrel bounce around I want to tree them not just a tree one went up at some point in time I also like good winding ability not every dog has it you just have to watch your dog work and you'll be able to tell I never use cage game I let do everything in there own in the wild as far as picking out a cold nose from a hot one I'm not sure how to explain that but if you saw them working you could tell the difference just takes experience like anything else

I think as a general rule, people in areas where game is sparse prefer colder nosed dogs. If you only come across one track, you want a dog that can take it and warm it up and put game on the end of it.

Where game is very plentiful, hunters generally prefer a hotter nose. A hotter nose dog might tree multiple animals in the time it takes a cold nosed dog to unravel one track. I have seen where colder nosed dogs seem to almost get overwhelmed by so much scent where several animals have been. They can have a hard time getting anything out of a situation like that. I've never seen that happen with a hot nosed dog.

Some dogs are very focused on scent on the ground and on objects like a tree. Other dogs seem to be able to get just as much direction from airborne scent. I have seen cold nosed dogs that can do both, but not a lot of them. In my limited experience, a hotter nosed dog will be more likely to be able to locate animals on airborne scent. An example of this is treeing a coon or squirrel that has not been on the ground yet, and therefore has left no scent on the ground or on the tree trunk.

Also, in my experience, dogs that are more gifted with eyes and ears are going to be less likely to be cold nosed.

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iam talking cur dogs. you can judge by kicking out a cage coon. but that also has a lot of range in it. example. kick a coon out in damp rain weather the scent holds twice as long. kick a coon out on dry cracked ground scent don't last long. kick a coon out on heavy frost ground same deal hard to follow.most of the good cc dogs had a cold nose . yet they could tree any hot one with ease. years ago I would take a dog out in the day time .and just watch there tail. I have had many take that track over a mile to a big coon sound asleep in a tree. our season opens oct 15 and theres many heavy frosts starting that time of year so in our case we need a cold nose dog that can also catch coon on the ground in the big corn fields