If push comes to shove I can't say that I would risk anothers life. I don't know where you got that Idea. I did say that most including maybe me would do many things to survive but thats a damn far cry form the subject of this discussion. I have never hunted anything with dogs. can't answer that question at all. No hound hunters up my way. When I was a kid we used to have some hound hunters from down south come up to our area in the summer to hunt coons in the cornfields but I never went with them and have no idea how its done. We have cougars but I have never seen them hunted with dogs. We don't have bears here. I have often hunted them in Sask but never with dogs.