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Is my dog a Plott Hound?

11K views 8 replies 5 participants last post by  LoveLola  
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I think she looks just like a Plott but the idea of me finding a plott that was left for dead just seems weird to me.

Lola is 9 months old now. (The pictures go from older to younger)

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#2 ·
Are there a lot of hunters where you're from? They dump dogs all the time around here....

I recently found a dog that I suspect was dumped. Mine looks like a plott to me, but the short-eared variety. My next-door neighbors just happen to have a long-eared plott that they adopted in North Carolina after she was dumped. Both dogs are gun shy.



If plotts are pretty rare where you're from, I'd listen to Occam's razor : )
 
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I live in Austin and I suppose there's a decent amount of hunting near my area. She was found when she was around 4-5 weeks old and to be perfectly honest I'm surprised she lived. She was a very sick puppy. I call her my "accident". I had never actually wanted a hound because of those noses wanting to get into everything... but she's the best thing ever.
 
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You would be surprised. My hounds all have great recalls, and they are much more attached to me then my English bull. My Beagle, now that she is older, will walk with me without a leash and pull off a scent immediately if I tell her to. My redbone is still under 3 years so it takes a few hollars to get her back, and the bloodhound rarely leaves my side, unless I tell her to track.
 
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I feel a little bad that I don't hunt because I know that she would be amazing at it... but i try to hike as often as I can (which is a good amount) and I've started taking her to an agility class and I found out that they do scent training classes as well...

This was Lola the day I was able to take her home. I'm estimating she was around 6 weeks old. You could count her ribs she was so malnourished and she had ringworm, roundworm, hookworm and a very resistant strain of coccidia. Of course my pug, Bella, got it all as well.

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NO worries, I haven't hunted with a rifle for years. I now use a camera instead. I always train my hounds to track and go out with them so they can have a good time. Heck, my english bulldog even thinks he is a hound at times.

The girls were after an Opossum and he was about 6 -10 feet behind them trying to keep up. In this picture he was attempting to make sense out of an old birds nest that the girls blew right past.


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