On Nat Geo I recently watched a program called American Wild. It was titled Stalking the Mountain Lion and featured Casey Anderson, this dude from Montana who has a pet grizzly bear. Anyway his buddy had these two tracking dogs, hounds of sorts. They looked like awesome dogs (a lot like this here pic).
Anyway this program really made me question my
existence in my current form.
i need to watch that. my dogs, redbone coonhounds, were originally bred to make a sure-footed, agile & fearless breed of dog that would corner/tree mountain lions and bears. i know they are really good at treeing squirrels and other small animals and will walk up to the biggest of animals at the dog park. i even had an incident where copper tried to tree a police horse (while the horse was occupied).
on tip of that, they are some of the biggest people lovers out there and arw heart-broken if you keep them away from guests. great dogs, just a little loud at times.