I hear those flaps are good for trapping scent from the air and ground bolstering your sense of smell. Not looking like you’d be able to maul a badger or whatever with that dad bod couch potato dog.
if they were any good hounds wouldnt be btfo in scentwork by pomeranians >all the fluff traps scents and bolsters their sense of smell much better than flaps, which only trap bacteria and fungus leading the beast to reek like dead cheese
All of this shit talk about what is the best sniffer dog is especially funny when you realise even the best trained sniffer dogs have an alarmingly high false positive rate kek
>Furthermore it is normally drug residue
Sounds like narc cope when the handler has spilt hes spaghetti over Mr KillerNig flase positive ol' grandma kek
Nah, not a degenerate here. Cider is my only vice. Bootlicking is fricking weird though. Tell your district Sgt he should probably stop beating his wife and hit more nigs
>wolves need to track prey by scent or they die >natural selection did not make them look like hounds >dogs with the best noses are not hounds
Hounds were a mistake. A hick engineered, herry rigged joke of an animal created by people who defined “educated” as having read the bible in greek.
Aren’t the folds for holding in scents they pick up? That would make these quite the useful and interesting breed.
How could you say this about such a lovely creature?
Yeah you’re right. Both the Bassets and Bloodhounds have those really long ears that drag on the ground when they’re sniffing to gather the scent into their noses. The folds along their head and neck also help trap in scents.
Also hounds especially bassets were bred to flush out game in the ground, like rabbits and hares so they need that loose skin. I also hear a lot of hound owners talk about how stubborn they are to train. Hunters like bassets because of their slow pace, they really outstanding scent dogs and will really use their nose as they go a long to sniff out game. People forget theirs a specific reason why breeders bred these dogs like they are.
This is a working line basset. Notice the long ears and loose skin. The pictures you've been sharing would not be capable of the work of a working line. Those are show lines, where the characteristics have been pushed way too far, causing welfare issues.
No, that’s not how any of that works. The best scentwork dogs on earth all have tight skin and pointy ears.
Hounds were created by moronic theorycrafting victorian fricks who thought leeches cured herpes and further deformed by dog show standard following and inbreeding. They are just a curiosity that needs to stop being created just to suffer and be a helpless infantile slave animal that cant survive 2 weeks on its own.
>The best scentwork dogs on earth all have tight skin and pointy ears.
This is objectively and provably incorrect. Hounds are the best dogs for scentwork. Not all hounds are elephant-skinned, and you're moronic for thinking thats the case. Most scenthounds look like differing sizes of picrel. What you said would be like if I saw a clumber spaniel and then said that every spaniel is an inbred abomination that should die. I hope you feel bad about how stupid you are anon.
>hounds are the best sniffers
Yes thats exactly why the majority of drug, explosives and SAR dogs are malinois, terriers, labs, and GSDs!
Fricking deformed show dog gays
Yeah and those pointy dogs are healthy and intelligent so the low iq morons that still hunt cant handle them.
Bassets are simply moronic and crippled to make it so morons can train them for scentwork. Worse hearing and eyesight so they dont need trained for distractions. Of course, ruined dog breeds are always those touched by sport hunters. Bunch of ingrates.
Spot on. The point of a hound is being the dog untermensch for the convenience of the human untermensch. Their only function is sporting now that people actually know how to train a reliable dog.
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A well trained Bloodhound can be of service to police departments in the location of a missing or lost persons and they can also help in the apprehension of fugitives. The bloodhound is also the only dog whose evidence is admissible in U.S. courts. The FBI even uses them often to trace and sniff out bombs and explosives. They are also great at sniffing out blood and decomposing bodies hence their name. They have a knack at sniffing out human scents.
The ONLY reason why law enforcement doesn't use them as often is because of the expensive upkeep of a hound dog. The vet care, making sure you clean out their ears often, checking their eyes and they have a propensity of getting fungal or bacterial infections.
My basset hound for example caught a bad fungal infection called blastomycosis which caused her to have seizures and go blind in one eye. You have to be careful with hounds and where they're digging. Their noses can get them in trouble.
But imo, I think bassets and bloodhounds make AMAZING pets and they should be used more often in law enforcement as scent dogs despite some of their health problems.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>bloodhounds in my old home county
Probably the only based thing that swinger sheriff did
3 months ago
Anonymous
What's so based about bringing out Bloodhounds for police work? They work out great if the the departments have the money for the vet bill and up keep. They make awesome dogs! Just like any other K-9, Malinois or German Shepherd they are JUST as useful and loyal to police departments.
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Anonymous
>Yes thats exactly why the majority of drug, explosives and SAR dogs are malinois, terriers, labs, and GSDs!
There's a good reason for this and it isn't because they have better, or even comparable noses to hounds. It's down to trainability.
All dogs are very, very good at smelling things. Sniffer dogs are trained to sniff out one thing and one thing only, and that one thing will tend to have a very distinct smell. Be it bombs, or guns, or different drugs (Yes, a weed sniffing dog is different to a coke sniffing dog). Basically, it's very unlikely that a law-enforcement sniffer dog will ever have to differentiate between scents. That's too confusing. And since just focusing on one scent (guns, bombs, drugs) is something that every dog CAN do, law enforcement will look for dogs with high trainability and high obedience, such as GSDs, spaniels, etc.
HOWEVER, this is not the case when it comes to mantracking. Most every good mantracking dog you see used by law enforcement will be some kind of hound. This is because mantracking requires a dog to differentiate between different human scents, which can vary, and track them down through a trail. Other dogs *can* do this, but in this case the hound's superior sense of smell mogs severely, and when it comes to mantracking say, missing peoples or criminals, they'll bring out the hounds.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Hounds do not have a superior sense of smell
Honestly it shouldn’t be either, it should be Coonhounds who are more trainable. In the perfect world; Curs (Common Ancestor between Hounds/Terriers)
What’s with all the Basset talk lately? Who’s OP?
-m.f. aka troll killer
Hounds are not intelligent enough to do as well in scentwork as malinois
3 months ago
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Dinosaurs are birds
3 months ago
Anonymous
Correct. Some of them even had feathers. But what does that have to do with hounds being worse at scentwork than malinois and all their gross deformities being totally useless?
How about their stench? Hounds just smell bad. Malinois do not. Why? Deformity.
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Honestly it shouldn’t be either, it should be Coonhounds who are more trainable. In the perfect world; Curs (Common Ancestor between Hounds/Terriers)
Yeah and those pointy dogs are healthy and intelligent so the low iq morons that still hunt cant handle them.
Bassets are simply moronic and crippled to make it so morons can train them for scentwork. Worse hearing and eyesight so they dont need trained for distractions. Of course, ruined dog breeds are always those touched by sport hunters. Bunch of ingrates.
I hear those flaps are good for trapping scent from the air and ground bolstering your sense of smell. Not looking like you’d be able to maul a badger or whatever with that dad bod couch potato dog.
if they were any good hounds wouldnt be btfo in scentwork by pomeranians
>all the fluff traps scents and bolsters their sense of smell much better than flaps, which only trap bacteria and fungus leading the beast to reek like dead cheese
I don’t think this is true. Pomeranians have a tiny little nose and face, how the hell is their smell better than a flophound?
Hounds are so cute!!
Are bloodhounds good companion animals? Would they be happy living the suburban life with daily walks and a decent sized backyard?
All of this shit talk about what is the best sniffer dog is especially funny when you realise even the best trained sniffer dogs have an alarmingly high false positive rate kek
The false positives are intentional based on signals like “homie” and “homie”.
Furthermore it is normally drug residue even when drugs are not found
>Furthermore it is normally drug residue
Sounds like narc cope when the handler has spilt hes spaghetti over Mr KillerNig flase positive ol' grandma kek
t. druggie mad he got called out by a
*checks list*
samoyed
Nah, not a degenerate here. Cider is my only vice. Bootlicking is fricking weird though. Tell your district Sgt he should probably stop beating his wife and hit more nigs
Let me ask my
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American eskimo dog to sniff him out first. Time is of the essence, so leave the hounds at home.
what a weird thing to say
https://www.ukcdogs.com/nosework-hof-standings#
BELGIAN SHEPHERD DOG
AMERICAN BULLDOG
POMERANIAN
Houndsisters, we got btfo by pitbulls and spitzes.
>wolves need to track prey by scent or they die
>natural selection did not make them look like hounds
>dogs with the best noses are not hounds
Hounds were a mistake. A hick engineered, herry rigged joke of an animal created by people who defined “educated” as having read the bible in greek.
>can smell termites in your walls, impending heart attacks, and diabetic shock
hounds are based
I've always wanted to gently nibble on the folds of a basset hound. I guess you could say I'm a sick frick
imaginethesmell
Someday we’re going to have to face the very real reality that these things and others like it were mistakes
the ones responsible for this abomination should be round up and shot, if they're not alive then their descendants
Hounds are beautiful loving dogs and their wrinkles, long ears and big paws give them character. You can leave now.
Aren’t the folds for holding in scents they pick up? That would make these quite the useful and interesting breed.
How could you say this about such a lovely creature?
>Aren’t the folds for holding in scents they pick up?
...what?
Yeah you’re right. Both the Bassets and Bloodhounds have those really long ears that drag on the ground when they’re sniffing to gather the scent into their noses. The folds along their head and neck also help trap in scents.
Also hounds especially bassets were bred to flush out game in the ground, like rabbits and hares so they need that loose skin. I also hear a lot of hound owners talk about how stubborn they are to train. Hunters like bassets because of their slow pace, they really outstanding scent dogs and will really use their nose as they go a long to sniff out game. People forget theirs a specific reason why breeders bred these dogs like they are.
Aren't Bassets basically Beagle/Bloodhound hybrids?
This is a working line basset. Notice the long ears and loose skin. The pictures you've been sharing would not be capable of the work of a working line. Those are show lines, where the characteristics have been pushed way too far, causing welfare issues.
No, that’s not how any of that works. The best scentwork dogs on earth all have tight skin and pointy ears.
Hounds were created by moronic theorycrafting victorian fricks who thought leeches cured herpes and further deformed by dog show standard following and inbreeding. They are just a curiosity that needs to stop being created just to suffer and be a helpless infantile slave animal that cant survive 2 weeks on its own.
Correct. But then, the same applies for a lot of other breeds too…
>The best scentwork dogs on earth all have tight skin and pointy ears.
This is objectively and provably incorrect. Hounds are the best dogs for scentwork. Not all hounds are elephant-skinned, and you're moronic for thinking thats the case. Most scenthounds look like differing sizes of picrel. What you said would be like if I saw a clumber spaniel and then said that every spaniel is an inbred abomination that should die. I hope you feel bad about how stupid you are anon.
>hounds are the best sniffers
Yes thats exactly why the majority of drug, explosives and SAR dogs are malinois, terriers, labs, and GSDs!
Fricking deformed show dog gays
Spot on. The point of a hound is being the dog untermensch for the convenience of the human untermensch. Their only function is sporting now that people actually know how to train a reliable dog.
A well trained Bloodhound can be of service to police departments in the location of a missing or lost persons and they can also help in the apprehension of fugitives. The bloodhound is also the only dog whose evidence is admissible in U.S. courts. The FBI even uses them often to trace and sniff out bombs and explosives. They are also great at sniffing out blood and decomposing bodies hence their name. They have a knack at sniffing out human scents.
The ONLY reason why law enforcement doesn't use them as often is because of the expensive upkeep of a hound dog. The vet care, making sure you clean out their ears often, checking their eyes and they have a propensity of getting fungal or bacterial infections.
My basset hound for example caught a bad fungal infection called blastomycosis which caused her to have seizures and go blind in one eye. You have to be careful with hounds and where they're digging. Their noses can get them in trouble.
But imo, I think bassets and bloodhounds make AMAZING pets and they should be used more often in law enforcement as scent dogs despite some of their health problems.
>bloodhounds in my old home county
Probably the only based thing that swinger sheriff did
What's so based about bringing out Bloodhounds for police work? They work out great if the the departments have the money for the vet bill and up keep. They make awesome dogs! Just like any other K-9, Malinois or German Shepherd they are JUST as useful and loyal to police departments.
>Yes thats exactly why the majority of drug, explosives and SAR dogs are malinois, terriers, labs, and GSDs!
There's a good reason for this and it isn't because they have better, or even comparable noses to hounds. It's down to trainability.
All dogs are very, very good at smelling things. Sniffer dogs are trained to sniff out one thing and one thing only, and that one thing will tend to have a very distinct smell. Be it bombs, or guns, or different drugs (Yes, a weed sniffing dog is different to a coke sniffing dog). Basically, it's very unlikely that a law-enforcement sniffer dog will ever have to differentiate between scents. That's too confusing. And since just focusing on one scent (guns, bombs, drugs) is something that every dog CAN do, law enforcement will look for dogs with high trainability and high obedience, such as GSDs, spaniels, etc.
HOWEVER, this is not the case when it comes to mantracking. Most every good mantracking dog you see used by law enforcement will be some kind of hound. This is because mantracking requires a dog to differentiate between different human scents, which can vary, and track them down through a trail. Other dogs *can* do this, but in this case the hound's superior sense of smell mogs severely, and when it comes to mantracking say, missing peoples or criminals, they'll bring out the hounds.
Hounds do not have a superior sense of smell
Hounds are not intelligent enough to do as well in scentwork as malinois
Dinosaurs are birds
Correct. Some of them even had feathers. But what does that have to do with hounds being worse at scentwork than malinois and all their gross deformities being totally useless?
How about their stench? Hounds just smell bad. Malinois do not. Why? Deformity.
Honestly it shouldn’t be either, it should be Coonhounds who are more trainable. In the perfect world; Curs (Common Ancestor between Hounds/Terriers)
What’s with all the Basset talk lately? Who’s OP?
-m.f. aka troll killer
Yeah and those pointy dogs are healthy and intelligent so the low iq morons that still hunt cant handle them.
Bassets are simply moronic and crippled to make it so morons can train them for scentwork. Worse hearing and eyesight so they dont need trained for distractions. Of course, ruined dog breeds are always those touched by sport hunters. Bunch of ingrates.
No wrinkles or folds. Ugu.
It is not the most egregious breed out there.
This.
That is most dogs if you don't bother to do basic cleaning.