The state dog of North Carolina specializes in hunting big game like wild boar, mountain lions, and even bears! Plott Hounds also excel at chasing and treeing raccoons, so in some quarters ...

Today scent hounds are kept as working dogs, as well as beloved family pets. Read on to find out more about these dogs with ...

During one encounter, Hirano lost a hound. A wild boar ripped open the unfortunate canine's stomach with its tusks. “The dog howled, 'Yeow!' and did not last more than three minutes,” he said.

Bloodhounds date back to a seventh-century Belgian monk but they began to be developed in Britain some 500 years later to hunt rabbits, wild boar and deer. Described as “a nose with a dog ...