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Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
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Tamora Pierce (Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2))
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Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, "Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know!"
And I'd say, "I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.
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Tamora Pierce (Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2))
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I'm not a bloodhound, your lordships."
"Woof, woof," Cameron said, giving Fellows an evil grin. "Good dog.
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Jennifer Ashley (The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides, #1))
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Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help.
Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. "This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. "The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now.
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Tamora Pierce (Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2))
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Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?"
She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax."
My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine.
"Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.
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Tamora Pierce (Bloodhound (Beka Cooper, #2))
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I hear dogs a woo-wooing,” she said.
“Yes, honey, the dogs are mine and they are woo-wooing because they’re happy they found you.
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Virginia Lanier (Death in Bloodhound Red (Jo Beth Sidden "Bloodhound" Mystery #1))
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Accepting Uncle Tom’s Cabin as revelation second only to the Bible, the Yankee women all wanted to know about the bloodhounds which every Southerner kept to track down runaway slaves. And they never believed her when she told them she had only seen one bloodhound in all her life and it was a small mild dog and not a huge ferocious mastiff. They wanted to know about the dreadful branding irons which planters used to mark the faces of their slaves and the cat-o’-nine-tails with which they beat them to death, and they evidenced what Scarlett felt was a very nasty and ill-bred interest in slave concubinage.
Especially did she resent this in view of the enormous increase in mulatto babies in Atlanta since the Yankee soldiers had settled in the town.
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Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)
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Aun en el caso de las razas del perro doméstico del mundo entero, que admito que descienden de diversas especies salvajes, no puede dudarse que ha habido una cantidad inmensa de variaciones hereditarias, pues ¿quién creerá que animales que se pareciesen mucho al galgo italiano, al bloodhound, al bull-dog, al pug-dog o al spaniel Blenheim, etc. -tan distintos de todos los cánidos salvajes- existieron alguna vez en estado natural?
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (50 obras maestras que debes leer antes de morir: vol. 1)
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The bloodhound is also an ace at locating cats, although Coldiron says that when they are working in Southern California, most felines have met their fate at the hands of predators by the time she is asked to help. There is comfort nevertheless: “People call me when they want closure,” she explains. “It’s so much better to know than still be wondering, five years later.
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Rebecca Ascher-Walsh (Loyal: 38 Inspiring Tales of Bravery, Heroism, and the Devotion of Dogs)
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Air dogs excelled at tracking scent in the air. Ground dogs like bloodhounds and beagles worked best tracking scent particles close to or on the ground. Scott
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Robert Crais (Suspect (Scott James & Maggie, #1))
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I’m not a bloodhound, your lordships.” “Woof, woof.” Cameron said, giving Fellows an evil grin. “Good dog.
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Jennifer Ashley (The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzies & McBrides, #1))
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When utilizing the Intensity Trail as the initial starting exercise, have your trail layer tease the dog with the reward and verbally entice him to follow. If you are employing a food reward make sure the trail layer allows the dog to smell it so he knows what delicious tidbits are at the end of the trail. The trail layer then quickly runs away while still verbally teasing the dog. The scent article should be introduced or utilized during this exercise, so have your trail layer take an article of clothing (a hat or shirt) and drop it in front of the dog as they leave. Retired Instructor Paul Rice faces his dog the wrong direction The dog handler also needs to verbally entice the dog while making sure the trail layer quickly disappears from sight. This disappearing act is accomplished by using anything that blocks the dog’s vision, such as the corner of a building, a vehicle, etc. Do not allow the dog to watch the trail layer run for a long time, because it will learn to sight hunt rather than use its nose. Instructor/VA Deputy Sheriff Mike Szelc working an Intensity Trail Also, you do not want to inadvertently teach the dog that the trail will always be in front of them. To avoid making that mistake, the handler should always turn the dog so that it is facing a different or wrong direction. The dog will obviously try to swing around towards the correct direction, before and during the presentation of the scent article. The act of making the dog turn after the scent article is presented (instead of allowing him to bolt straight ahead) will avoid creating that weakness in the dog. Shortly after the trail layer has run away, present the scent article by bringing it up to the dog’s nose or pointing to it while saying, “find um.” Then quickly give your starting command such as “get um” and allow the dog to start.
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Kevin Kocher (How to Train a Police Bloodhound and Scent Discriminating Patrol Dog)
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Your dog will determine the distance of these first runaways. Young pups may only be able to trail short distances where older dogs may cover 50 yards quickly. Just remember to keep it short enough for the dog not to lose interest, but long enough to see the dog’s head drop to the ground which tells you he is using its nose. Periodically try to place at least one turn in the Intensity trail so the dog doesn’t always think the find is going to be straight ahead. You will be able to tell the dog is becoming distracted or bored when you see him pausing or stopping to check or smell other things. If this occurs, quickly have the trail layer make a noise or motion to regain the focus. When the dog regains his focus, quickly give a verbal cue showing your approval. It is best to alert the trail layer to this possibility so they are prepared to react. Opal running a hound in Italy
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Kevin Kocher (How to Train a Police Bloodhound and Scent Discriminating Patrol Dog)
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I glared at him. “My dogs are professionals. Their job is scent tracking. They are neither attack dogs nor guard dogs. You could have shot them and they would lick your hand. They are the gentlest of all breeds. Of course, if you had shot them you’d now be dead meat.” I couldn’t tell whether he smiled or grimaced. It was hard to ready any expression behind the mask he wore.
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Virginia Lanier (Death in Bloodhound Red (Jo Beth Sidden "Bloodhound" Mystery #1))
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I'll just say it: I've never liked stories about dogs. Stories about hunting dogs. Sheep dogs. Bloodhounds. St. Bernard's with casks of brandy. Dogs that could talk, count, sing arias, walk on two feet or dance the boogaloo. - Richard Ford, in the foreword 'The Beast at my Feet
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Robert DeMott (Afield: American Writers on Bird Dogs)
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male officers had a hard time accepting them as equals,
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Adam David Russ (Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner)
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and they proved themselves more than capable.
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Adam David Russ (Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner)
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Years ago, a woman named Amanda Holmes also vanished in Langley Woods. She went missing from the area. I remember that she was twenty-two at the time, a senior in college. Her case was strange, the kind that captured national attention. It was all over the news. I followed her story at the time because it was interesting. I didn’t think it would ever matter to me on a more personal level. When Amanda first went missing, her car was found about a quarter mile from Langley Woods. There was a suicide note set on the dashboard. The search for her should have been cut-and-dried. It was anything but. Search parties looked for her for days that stretched into weeks. They used bloodhounds and then cadaver dogs to scavenge the woods and the residential areas around them. Even the dogs couldn’t find her. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people searched for Amanda, whose friends called her Mandy, by air and by foot. Her family was devastated. This was maybe five years ago. I remember at the time watching her parents cry on TV. I remember that months passed without finding her. Eventually everyone gave up. People stopped talking about Amanda Holmes. They came to believe that she wasn’t at Langley Woods or anywhere even close to it, that something else had happened to her, something far more mysterious and insidious, but no one knew what. There were theories, and unconfirmed reports of Amanda sightings all over the Chicagoland area and around the country. Had someone met her and driven her elsewhere? Was the suicide note just part of a cunning plan? Had she abandoned her life, her family, and was she living a new life somewhere else? But why? No one knew. The case went cold. A year passed and still she wasn’t found, until one day when some hikers stumbled upon her body in the woods. The medical examiner determined the cause of death: suicide. Amanda Holmes took her own life. She hung herself from a tree. She had been in these woods the whole time everyone was looking for her, and still no one could find her.
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Mary Kubica (Just the Nicest Couple)
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You may well be wondering why a neutered dog would need prosthetic testicles. A vet quoted on the Neuticles Web site says the product “helps the pet’s self esteem.” I called Neuticles founder Gregg Miller to chat about the surprising notion of pet self-esteem. He talked about the day his bloodhound Buck was neutered. “I’ll never forget it. He had just come home from the vet. He woke up. He went to clean himself, he looked down, and he looked back up at me. He knew they were missing. He was depressed for days.” Miller concedes that Neuticles’s healthy sales figures (157,000 pairs sold worldwide) may have more to do with male pet owners’ hang-ups than with pets’—a fact supported by the not infrequent attempts to order Larges for, say, a beagle.
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Mary Roach (Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)
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Thus began perhaps France’s darkest hour. In desperation, in 1802 Rochambeau brought in packs of bloodhounds trained in Cuba to eat human flesh and unleashed them on the battlefield. But the dogs were “ignorant of color prejudice” and ate French soldiers as well. Rochambeau ordered slaves burned alive, drowned in sacks, or shot after digging their own graves. He became legendary for his brutality. But the slaves did not surrender, and by November of 1803 the rebel forces had driven what remained of Napoleon’s soldiers out of the country. Over 80 percent of the French army sent there died on the island.
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Daniel Rasmussen (American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt)
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When they tried to cross the Choptank River near Denton, just 17 miles into their long journey, the bloodhounds from the Murphy farm caught up with them. Did I mention that Moses was a planner? He had fully prepared himself for this turn of events. For months back on the farm, he had secretly befriended those dogs with scraps of food and other bits of love and kindness. Now, at this moment of great danger, those dogs turned tail and headed back home when he ordered them to do so.
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Jim Duffy (Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva)
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She would have liked to take Radish cowslipping, but Lalage had instructed her that one of the first unwritten rules of country life was never to take a pack of your own dogs to a strange house, where the hostess may possess jealous bloodhounds or be a dog-loather; and after several expeditions in his company,
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Carola Oman (Somewhere in England)
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Be conducted on a road with little or no traffic. 2. Have trail layer trot down the road a block or so and enter vehicle. 3. Have the vehicle (closed windows) drive back over trail layer’s steps. 4. Have vehicle drop trail layer off near the start for a short fresh trail after the dog has started working and is a safe distance away.
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Kevin Kocher (How to Train a Police Bloodhound and Scent Discriminating Patrol Dog)
Adam David Russ (Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner)
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some of the brass in key positions remained adamantly opposed to the idea.
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Adam David Russ (Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner)
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loyal and lovable Labrador retriever is America’s top dog in terms of sheer numbers and—hard to argue—fame.
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Adam David Russ (Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner)
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Service dogs for the blind
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Adam David Russ (Bloodhound in Blue: The True Tales of Police Dog JJ and His Two-Legged Partner)
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The dogs looked sad as they were nudged from the back of the car. They were big, red brutes with kind eyes. Their ears dropped below their noses. Bloodhounds don't like to hunt man.
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James H. Street (Look Away: ! A Dixie Notebook)