[Dailydrool] Basset hunting skills

[Pam McQuade]

<< I loved the bit about the bassets being so keen following thescent that 
the hare gets away - or even doubles back through the packwithout being 
noticed, they're so intent on the scent trail!>>

I can believe this, because I've seen Jane follow a scent to places the item 
she's scenting no longer is. I can be holding it, while she's still tracking 
it in the kitchen. But since she's no trained tracker, I wasn't surprised.

If bassets are really all that bad at tracking, you wonder why they were 
developed this way. I can see the original monks who bred them going 
dinnerless because the bassets let the rabbits get away. Doesn't seem like 
their breeding was all that good.

Are bassets really such bad trackers, or is there some other method used to 
grab the rabbit? Inquiring minds want to know!
Pam, food slave to the Dashing Bassets (who never really track anything)