re: Bloodhound for house pet

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They aren't dumb at all as a breed. They are just completely enslaved by their noses.

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If theyre anything like Beagles they will dissappear constantly if not attended to or kenneled or not attended to...Beagles will follow a scent for days and forget where they started if left to their own devices. We had beagles when I was a kid and it was a revolving door...they were rabbit dogs and we didn't keep them in the house but they were in what we called a kennel but it would only keep them a while. They weren't pets either...they were more or less treated like pets but if one went missing another one replaced it pretty quickly...we either bought another one or one showed up from someone else's pack of rabbit dogs. If a hound manages to get out of the yard its likely to dissapear and forget where it came from...