Thursday 18 October 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=421fY0AO6M0&feature=g-upl


Training days for Xosha Bushveld Hound pups involves following the astute lead of the adult hounds. 

The humans do the initial labor of finding the clear trace of a feline and then pass the baton over to the adult hounds to investigate if sufficient scent deposits are apparent and in sufficient quantities to allow for fixed trailing. Always it’s the search for tracks and weeks can go by spent without any profit for the invested hours driving and hiking. But when a good track is found the atmosphere is loaded with possibility and positivism.
8 months plus is the entry age for the Bushveld hounds into the initiation and a hound won’t be considered trained until at least his/her 3rd season. All the emphasis is placed on scent tracking and always the quarry is left in the tree to shrewdly lay scent deposits for another day. 
True ‘catch & release’ and not possible by any other hunting means than over Hounds.


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