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Re: History Lesson & Scientific Facts of how dogs scent
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Originally posted by cherrytrees
Coonhounds can trace its ancestry from the Irish and French hounds that were brought to the U. S. These dogs were first known as the English foxhound as they were originally used to hunt fox during the day and raccoons at night. The hound was first mentioned in a diary owned by one of explorer deSotto's men. It was mentioned that rather than hunting fox and raccoons, the dogs were used to hunt Indians. Virginia Hounds were developed from the hounds that were brought by Robert Brooke, an Englishman in 1650, from the English hounds imported to Virginia by Thomas Walker in 1742 and from the hounds imported by George Washington in 1770.
However the hunting dogs that were developed proved to be inadequate to the hunting needs of the Americans. Americans hunted animals that crawled up in trees. Unfortunately, the dogs that were developed do not have the treeing ability. The hounds would lose the scent once the prey has crawled up a tree. The hound was then crossed with the bloodhound to improve the scenting ability. Through careful and selective breeding, the American English Coonhound was developed. Apart from having a much improved scenting ability, the dog has great strength and pain endurance that makes it adapt to the harsh American terrain.
The key to the hound's superior ability to track by scent lies in its enlarged olfactory system and long flapping ears specifically designed to funnel and push air and scents toward the dogs' olfactory system. The hounds ears and jowl flaps also play a vital role in scent detection, capturing and collecting scents to be delivered to the nasal chambers for analysis.
So for those of you who like your short eared dogs, keep em, use em, just know that your not bettering the breed of your coondog by breeding for short ears, your "hurting" the whole purpose of why they were originally bred, to have long ears.... for superior abilities to track scent. If you dont care about meeting your breed standards then why do you even own a UKC registered dog? Makes me wonder...
That post.....was complete nonsense by someone who likes long ears and is trying to justify them as "needed" rather than leaving it as opinion. There are so many problems with your post,..... twisted facts, and all out errors. MOST hunters will tell you, and I think ALL big game hunters will agree on this, nobody wants a dog that's grubbing a track to death with their nose in the dirt dragging it's ears to "stir up scent"....I want a dog that knows how to run with it's head up...using it nose to grab scent while it moves at a fast pace. The dog you describe would never catch up to the game animal, and would certainly never locate a cat. I dont care how accurate that hound is, dragging it's nose through the dirt...if it cant pick it's head up and get moving it belongs in the ground. This entire post has gotten completely rediculous! It's an eye opener as far as human intelligence is concerned LOL.
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