We currently have 'Osage' who can track a bear on a cold trail 10 hours old. Then there's 'Taylor' who had the last batch of pups and can pretty much do the same. And if you're a Black Bear, you WILL be climbing up the nearest tree when Taylor is around!
(That probably applies to #1 Marine Daughter, too!)
Daughter is fierce indeed. She got her mother's hot head and my stubbornness. I know better than to mess with her that's for sure. lol
What I don't know is how to go about training a hound.
Pops had a Walker/Black and Tan mix back in the 90's. Leon was smart as a whip but utterly untrainable. She (yep, Leon was a girl, long story. lol) just figured things out on her own and did whatever she wanted to do. Usually that meant she hopped in the truck with Pops and did whatever it was he was doing on a given day, but some days it meant she spent the whole day laying on the front porch barking at squirrels in the big red oak tree.
That sort of behavior was ok back then - the neighborhood was sparse compared to today. I don't dare let a dog run free without supervision now. So I've got to figure out how to keep close a dog that isn't wired to work that way.