Thanks!....Yep his breed was originally used as a hog dog in Eastern Europe. They're not really that well known in the US because the Slovs were apparently very, very picky about exporting any. I think they wanted to have complete control over manipulating the breed to be what they wanted it to be. Over there they are strictly working dogs. From the videos I've seen they still do it old school style where folks are blowing horns and chit before they head out on a hunt. Something like what you would think of with a fancy fox hunt.

Folks have started using them in more recent times for trackers. They use them up in Canada to track bear and moose. He's a super smart dog and acts exactly like what you read when you see the descriptions of them on the net. Here's one more pic of Otis. You can really see the Ol' hound dog in him when you look at him straight in the face. He's fifty pounds on the dot which is about the breed standard. I'd like get a couple pounds off of him for tracking. Both of Otis's parents were imported from Slovakia.