I Tried Escaping A Bloodhound - Summary

Summary

In this video, a man named Mike challenges a bloodhound named Ledoux to find him while he attempts to evade capture. Mike uses various strategies, such as covering himself in vaseline, wearing clothes from his friend, and using a bottle of skunk odor. He also uses boot scent pads and squirts coyote urine onto his shoes' scent pads. Despite Mike's attempts, Ledoux successfully tracks him down. After the challenge, Mike dances and trash talks Ledoux, claiming he's smarter than the bloodhound.

Facts

1. The text describes an experiment where a person attempts to evade a bloodhound trained to find missing individuals.
2. The individual, referred to as Mike, uses various strategies to confuse the bloodhound, including altering his body functions and using scent pads and skunk odor.
3. Mike's accomplices help him in his escape by driving remote control cars loaded with his laundry, which contains his recently shed skin cells.
4. Despite these efforts, the bloodhound, named Ledoux, successfully tracks and finds Mike, ending the challenge.
5. The individual, Lori, who owns Ledoux, explains that the dog can detect the scent of people's body odors and dead skin cells, which makes tracking them more challenging.
6. The experiment is part of a search and rescue operation, and the bloodhound is often used to find missing people and escaped convicts.
7. The bloodhound's nose is described as being significantly larger than a human's, with over 200 million olfactory cells, allowing it to detect scents much more effectively than humans, who have about six million scent receptors.
8. The individual, Mike, is confident in his ability to outsmart the bloodhound, but ultimately fails in his attempt to evade capture.
9. The text concludes with Mike celebrating his victory over Ledoux, the bloodhound, and preparing to attend a country-western themed 88th birthday party.