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People hunting
TDC off idols use trained dogs to capture escapees
(AP) — Nine dogs race across a sun
lit, grassy field, gathering in the
shade of a live oak to stare into its
dark boughs and bark.
It’s the successful end of an af
ternoon hunt.
Their quarry is Robert Dugger, a
44-year-old Texas Department of
Corrections inmate.
Dogs are one of three prime secu
rity measures prisons have against
escapes, says Rudy Artherholt, dog
sergeant at the TDC’s Ramsey II
Unit.
“You can’t beat the count, you
can't beat the radio and you can’t
outrun the dogs,’’ he says.
But dogs are not natural man-
hunters. They must be trained.
Their training starts when they
are weaned.
They’re taught first to ignore the
instinct to chase animal scents and to
recognize and follow human scents
instead.
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.
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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
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and run f aster. The scent is hotati(jP^^ oc ^ esle
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closer. such young
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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
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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. You I ,
did good today.” ■nts willb
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