There is always the exception. Had a 4 yo. beagle house dog given to me, dropped him off with my cousins who lived in the country. The first time that dog got the scent of a cottontail he went out of his mind. He was the runningest dog anyone in that part of the country had ever seen. My cousins hunted him hard, but he left them and went to live with some folks a few miles away who just about rabbit hunted for a living. He was one fine rabbit hound.