Mike challenges a bloodhound, LeDoux, to a tracking game, attempting to outsmart him with various tricks involving scent and distraction. Despite Mike's efforts, LeDoux successfully tracks him, revealing that the dog relies more on skin particles than scent on shoes. In the end, LeDoux finds Mike, and Mike playfully trash-talks the dog while celebrating his escape.
Sure, here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Bloodhounds are used by police for search and rescue missions to find missing people and criminals.
2. Bloodhounds are trained to track scents and can differentiate between various scents, including humans, clowns, doctors, etc.
3. There is a difference between trailing dogs and tracking dogs, with tracking dogs following footprints and trailing dogs following scents.
4. The narrator is planning to escape from a bloodhound in a challenge and has taken various measures to confuse the dog's sense of smell.
5. Bloodhounds have a much stronger sense of smell than humans, with over 200 million olfactory cells in their noses compared to about six million in humans.
6. The narrator has a 30-minute head start in the challenge, during which the bloodhound sniffs the narrator's clothes to memorize the scent.
7. The narrator uses tactics such as covering themselves in vaseline, wearing different clothes, and using skunk odor to throw off the bloodhound.
8. The narrator's accomplices use remote-controlled cars to distribute the narrator's scent along specific paths.
9. The narrator encounters obstacles like overflowing trash bins and uses them to leave their scent to mislead the bloodhound.
10. Despite the narrator's efforts, the bloodhound eventually loses the trail, and the narrator successfully completes the challenge.
11. The narrator trash-talks the bloodhound in celebration of their victory and plans to attend their grandmother's 88th birthday party.