ChickenSoup
Banned
"not to chase them, to track them"
I dare say a beagle can't tell the difference in a hog track and a deer track.
In Best Foghorn Leghorn voice....."I say, go away boy, you bother me."
You are trying to be too cerebral and are not concentrating enough on "being cute".
Yes, yes they can. They can tell a deer from a rabbit and vice versa, I know that from experience, and then they have a special bark I hear when they sniff a skunk and dash up to it only to get sprayed. A hog wouldn't be much different (although I wouldn't take them hog-hunting because I love them too much and, fiesty though they may be, a couple pointy teeth on a small dog vs. tusks on a large hog is, well, sad)