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Artherholt has been in charge of the Ramsey II dog packs for eight years. Inmates do most of the actual training under his direction. They start by playing with the puppies and running away, enticing them to follow. Each day, they run a little farther until the puppies understand “liey, when he does that. I’m supposed to go find him,” Artherholt said. “For a puppy to mature into a good one, it takes about two years on an average. And not all of them make it,” he says, estimating that out of a nine- or 10-puppy litter, only six or seven will make good tracking dogs. Dogs that don’t make the grade are eventually sold by the state. The manhunting instinct is re fined in frequent practice tracks in which dogs follow scents left by in mates. NY loi On this day, Artherholt takes Dugger to a cow pasture south of the kennel shortly before 10 a.m. Back at the kennel two hours later, Artherholt walks outside the fence, telling an inmate which dogs to release into the run. He has 32 adult dogs divided into four packs and uses only one pack per track. Today, he uses Four Pack, com prised of Joe, Rock, Moose, Big Red, Honcho, Jim, Ruby, Rosie and Tom. They are released into the run where they are teased into a frenzy by an inmate outside the fence or atop the kennel roof. Artherholt whistles and tell the dogs, “Look for him.” The dogs leave the kennel about noon and a short time later reach the pasture where Dugger was dropped off. They fan out, appearing to be meandering through the field. But they aren’t meandering aimlessly. This is an experienced pack sniff ing for a scent. “We don’t use pre-scent technique here,” Artherholt says. “We drag our dogs.” Dragging means working in outward circles, or semi-circles, noses to the ground. Officials know who was supposed to be where on a prison every min ute of the day, so the dogs are taken to the site where the escapee was last seen, Artherholt says. The silence is broken when one dog barks. The others file behind him, start sniffing and bark in response. They pick up Dugger’s scent and “line it out,” running briskly behind the lead dog, barking the entire way. “They’re testifying,” Artherholt says. “As long as they’re on the trail, they’ll testify.” The track proves difficult. though. Dugger’s scent gets mixed with those left by bulls and cows that frequent the fields he zig-zagged. Artherholt knows roughly where the trail should be. He told Dugger where to put it. But he won’t help the dogs find it. This is training and if he helps them now, they’ll expect help every time the job gets difficult, he says. Artherholt runs short tracks. His predecessor at Ramsey 11 used to run 15-mile Hacks around the pe rimeter of the 15,088-acre prison unit. “I don’t lay a long track, but I put a lot of work in a short track,” Ar- therholt says. Dugger has set a complicated, winding trail. Artherholt says an actual track is easier for the dogs to follow because escapees will run off in a straight line. There are other problems during an actual prison break, though, when escapees often have several hours’ head start. Under other circumstances, par ticularly on a cool, dewy night, the dogs would be hard to keep up with. “A dog can run a horse to death. When the dogs pick it up, you try to stay with the dogs,” Artherholt saw B “If those dogs pick up a good, warn BACHES scent, they’re going to leave you ery year, tin the dust. Try to stay in hearing diJniil I ion chili tance of them. Keep richng and! d et ' s > ori tha tening. That’s all you can do.” maybe ever Near the end, they testify loudeiP° anne and run f aster. The scent is hotati(jP^^ oc ^ esle v iliev avp apifin,BI a the dogs know they are gettinj ^ an y sl closer. such young Dugger, who was standing besid(ff oin * n g 1 the tree watching the dogs jr s H SSIOoni through the paces during the laj nmc * 1 w ' t ^ 1 f ew minutes, climbed into the tren s BP e . Lua ^y the dogs came down off the leveelit.H e 1 le * r 14 side the Brazos. cations, or Within minutes the hunt isover.lr! l " e y ( * ( It has taken about two hours.IfeBri e lien<: knou where Dugger is. le ias He stays in the tree until tolditjPFS 1301 °1 comedown. arount Artherholt is concerned thatpeo-Br' , 1 ' 1 pie believe the TDC raises and useBr <>n y, to man-killing dogs. The dogs areDi^ 11 a ! u , sl dangerous, but they know theirjol) | n 11 et ' he says. They are supposed to f their quarry and hold him untilhelpl arrives. Five minutes later, Dugger iso the ground playing with thedogs, “That’s good, Red,” he tells Bi s Red. “You did good today. 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