Bloodhound
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The Bloodhound is a large scent hound originally bred for hunting deer and wild boar, but also used from the Middle Ages onwards for tracking human beings, and now most often bred specifically for that purpose. Thought to be descended from hounds once kept at the Abbey of St Hubert in Belgium, it is known to French speakers as the Chien de Saint-Hubert.
This dog is famed for its ability to discern human odors even days later, over great distances, even across water. Its extraordinarily keen sense of smell is combined with a strong and tenacious tracking instinct, producing the ideal scent hound, and it is used by police and law enforcement all over the world to track escaped prisoners, missing people, lost children and lost pets.
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Fictional bloodhounds
- Pluto, pet of Mickey Mouse, officially a mixed-breed dog, but designed after a pair of bloodhounds from The Chain Gang (1930)
- Ol' Red, from the George Jones (later remade by Blake Shelton) song of the same name.
- Ladybird from King of the Hill
- Beauregard in Pogo
- Pedro, the bloodhound owned and used by the English detective, Sexton Blake.
- Henry, a bloodhound in a popular series of British TV dog food commercials, with Clement Freud
- Trusty in Lady and the Tramp and Lady and the Tramp 2
- Snuffles in Quick Draw McGraw
- Napoleon from The Aristocats
- Duke, Jed's bloodhound from the Beverly Hillbillies
- Hubert from Best in Show
- Bobby Lee and others from Virginia Lanier's Bloodhound series
- Buddy, in Cats & Dogs
- Bruno in Cinderella and Cinderella 2
- The Bumpuses' hounds in A Christmas Story and My Summer Story
- Woofer and Whimper in Clue Club
- McGruff the Crime Dog
- Jasper T. Jowls at Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza
- Achoo from the Provost's Dog trilogy by Tamora Pierce
- General Pepper from Star Fox, by Nintendo videogame
- Everett from Back at the Barnyard
- Bear & Bryant in Sweet Home Alabama
- Pommes Frites, faithful and remarkable companion of Michael Bond's culinary detective, Monsieur Pamplemousse
- Waylon and Floyd in The Fox and the Hound 2
- Sniffer in Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws
- Tweock in One Hundred and One Dalmatians and 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
- Laughing Dog from Duck Hunt, by Nintendo videogame
- Bayard Hamar from Alice in Wonderland
- B.H. (Calcutta) Failed : a bloodhound that lost its sense of smell, in The Perishers, cartoon strip published in The Daily Mirror
- Frank in The Dog Who Thought He Was Santa by Bill Wallace
- Beauregard Jr. in Hee Haw
- Sergeant Murphy from The Busy World of Richard Scarry and Busytown Mysteries, by Richard Scarry
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In popular culture
- A bloodhound appears when Big Daddy goes outside while changing the porch light in the 1958 classic film, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- The bloodhound is seen in the 2009 film, Hotel for Dogs.
- A pack of bloodhounds track down Paul Newman's character in Cool Hand Luke. He is able to briefly avoid them by pouring cans of pepper on his trail.
- A bloodhound is seen while Lennie and Eli are tracking down the title character in the 1991 film, Bingo.
- A bloodhound is seen as part of the dog pack in Secondhand Lions.
- The bloodhound is seen in The Borrowers (1997 film).
- Lightning the bloodhound is seen in Racing Stripes, voiced by Snoop Dogg.
- A pack of bloodhounds search for Tim Robbins character, Andy Dufresne, after he escapes prison in The Shawshank Redemption.<ref>The Shawshank Redemption</ref>
- Doug Heffernan briefly adopts a bloodhound in the King of Queens episode Ruff Goin'.
- Hubert is the name of Harlan Pepper's (Christopher Guest) bloodhound in the cult comedy Best in Show (2000 film)
- In the animated show King of the Hill, Hank Hill's beloved dog Ladybird is a bloodhound
- The abilities of bloodhounds were put to the test in two episodes of Mythbusters.
- "Mcgruff" The Crime Dog was a notable animated bloodhound.
- A bloodhound is seen in the film 102 Dalmatians at Cruella de Vil's dog party.
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See also
- Hound Dog (song)
- Dog type
- Hunting the Clean Boot
- Northern (North Country Beagle) and Southern Hounds
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