Hunting the Clean Boot

Hunting the Clean Boot is a term that has been used in Britain to refer to the use of bloodhounds to follow natural human scent.

The 'clean boot' refers to the absence of either an artificial scent such as aniseed (used in drag hunting and more recently trail hunting, adopted by some established foxhound packs in England and Wales) or the scent of a live quarry.

References

• Lowe, Brian (1981). Hunting the Clean Boot: The Working Bloodhound. Blandford Books Ltd. ISBN 0-7137-0950-2. 

See also

• Bloodhound
• List of bloodhound packs of the United Kingdom
• Beagling
• Drag hunting
• Fox hunting

External links

• Masters of Draghounds and Bloodhounds Association
• Masters of Bloodhounds Association
• Belgian Clean Boot Hunting (only available in Dutch and French)