Species: bloodhound
The Bloodhound is a large scent hound, originally bred for hunting deer, wild boar and, since the Middle Ages, for tracking people.
This breed is famed for its ability to discern human scent over great distances, even days later. Its extraordinarily keen sense of smell is combined with a strong and tenacious tracking instinct, producing the ideal scent hound, and it is used by police and law enforcement all over the world to track escaped prisoners, missing people, and lost pets.
It is a gentle and even-tempered breed, but its strong tracking instincts can make it difficult to train with a leash.
The following tags are aliased to this tag: blood_hound (learn more).
This tag implicates scent_hound (learn more).