Why are purebred foxhounds not suitable for clean boot hunting?
JW: Foxhounds are not as low scenting as bloodhounds. To take the argument to extremes, we know that pure bred bloodhounds can differentiate between individual human scents, but have no evidence that foxhounds can. It is arguable as to how much human scent clean boot hounds are hunting and how much is disturbed ground. I suspect clean boot bloodhounds tend to hunt one or other or both depending on scenting conditions. So to sum up I think it likely that bloodhounds are more capable of discerning human scent while foxhounds hunting the clean boot would be more likely to rely on disturbed ground. Ground can be disturbed by a number of things therefore you want a hound that we know can differentiate human scent; hence we use bloodhounds. Follow up question: I remember one chase on a windy day last season going up the side of a hill when the hounds were following two different lines. You said that some of the hounds were following the scent on the wind. I guess the others were scenting the
