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Bloodhound Dog Breed Information & Picture
The Bloodhound was much used in olden times in hunting and in the pursuit of fugitives; two services for which his remarkable acuteness of smell, his ability to keep to the particular scent on which he is first laid, and the intelligence and pertinacity with which he follows up the trail, admirably fit him. The use and employment of these bloodhounds date back into remote antiquity. We have it on the authority of Strabo that they were used against the Gauls, and we have certain knowledge that they were employed not only in the frequent feuds of the Scottish clans, and in the continuous border forays of those days, but also during the ever-recurring hostilities between England and Scotland.
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Alternative Name
St. Hubert Hound
Origin
France / Belgium
Physical Attributes
- Weigh about 80 to 110 lb
- Height is about 23 to 27 inches.
- Bloodhounds coat is in black, tan, liver and tan, or red
Health Information
- Life expectancy is 10 to 12 years
- The dogs suffer from bloat and hip dysplasia.
Miscellaneous Information
The Bloodhound, from the nobler pursuit of heroes and knights, came in later years to perform the work of the more modern detective; but in this also his services were in time superseded by the justice's warrant and the police officer. We find it recorded about 1805, however, that "the Thrapston Association for the Prevention of Felons in Northamptonshire have provided and trained a Bloodhound for the detection of sheep-stealers."
The reputation it obtained for sagacity and fierceness in the capture of runaway slaves, and the cruelties attributed to it in connection with the suppression of the various negro risings, especially that of the Maroons, have given the animal an evil repute, which more probably should attach to those who made the animal's courage and sagacity a means for the gratification of their own revolting cruelty of disposition. It has been justly remarked that if entire credence be given to the description that was transmitted through the country of this extraordinary animal, it might be supposed that the Spaniards had obtained the ancient and genuine breed of Cerberus himself.
Half a century ago the Bloodhound was so little esteemed in England that
the breed was confined to the kennels of a very few owners; but the institution
of dog shows induced these owners to bring
their hounds into public exhibition, when it was seen that, like the Mastiff,
the Bloodhound claimed the advantage of having many venerable ancestral
trees to branch from. At the first Birmingham show, in 1860, Lord Bagot
brought out a team from a strain which had been in his lordship's family
for two centuries, and at the same exhibition there was entered probably
one of the best Bloodhounds ever seen, in Mr. T. A. Jenning's Druid. Known
now as "Old" Druid, this dog was got by Lord Faversham's Raglan
out of Baron Rothschild's historic bitch Fury, and his blood goes down
in collateral veins through Mr. L. G. Morrel's Margrave, Prince Albert
Solm's Druid, and Mr. Edwin Brough's Napier into the pedigrees of many
of the celebrated hounds of the present day.
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