In "Black Forest Rescue" (WDC 227) we are told that the Junior Woodchucks do not use bloodhounds to track lot people - they track by skill alone! But sometimes their skills are not enough, and they have to use the Junior Woodchuk bloodhound.

Bloodhound allergic to cat hairs

In "Black Forest Rescue" (WDC 227) Donald is transported into the Black Forest by helicopter. The Junior Woodchuck hound looks up into the air because Donald was flown in, and it would have found Donald had it not been allergic to cat hairs.

Huey, Dewey and Louie borrow the Junior Woodchuck hound to find Donald in In "Spring Cleaning" (WDC 213) too. In this story we learn that the hound's name is Snozzie. It has never lost in a competition because it can track persons anywhere. The hound even has a nose filter to help it tracking uncles trying to escape spring cleaning

Short career for Bolivar

by climbing trees. But there is no way Donald can escape a dog able to track men in rubber shoes through the aisles of fish markets. Donald should know better! When Donald succeeds in clogging up the hound's nose, it feels its way to stop the stupid duck (using dark glasses to emphasize its skill).

Donald's relationship to the hound is shaped by his behaviour in "Medaling Around" (WDC 261). In this story the Junior Woodchucks hound is dishonoured to the rank S.L.O.B. (Simple, Lowdown, Ordinary Boobhound) after having misjudjed Donald's false lion trail. But soon it saves Donald from an escaped lion and is S.S.S.S. AND S.O.S.S. (Supremely Sagacious Spoor Sniffer and Saver Of Stranded Souls)

This is not Donald's only confrontation with Snozzie, probably because of Donald's dislike of a animal that is smarter that himself. This is easy to see in "Hound Hounder" (WDC 253). In this story Snozzie does not wear a license because it must not be caught by spies while bringing a message from one troop to another troop. The Junior Woodchucks confidently claims the hound is smarter than Gyro. The problems all start when the dogcatcher (Donald) sees the missing license. He tries a fake meaty bone, essence of Burgerbalm, and false cats with no succeess. In the end he has to abandon fair play and puts up so many conflicting signs that the hound does not know where to go. And so the messenger is caught and Huey, Dewey and Louie's troop is on the verge of being given the title J.O.I.K.S. (Just Ordinary Insignificant Kid Simpletons), but Snoozie breaks out of the pen and reaches its destination before the hound of the other troop's hound is attracted by the (false) the wooing call of the Cameroonian cuddle hound - a behaviour not worthy a Junior Woodchucks hound. Snozzie is iven the G.C.O.T.O.O.M. (Grand Commanders Of The Order Of Mercury) even though the troop has to pay licensees for thirty dogs unless they are able to catch the dogs set free by their hound.

Later Donald is provoked when Snozzie is awarded K.I.N.G. (Knightly, Intrepid, Natatorial Guardian) for saving all the pretty girls and leaving the ugly ones for Donald to rescue in "Beach Boy" (WDC 276). To revenge the debasement Donald prepares extremely fragrant food and both the K.I.N.G. and the grand overseer of all woodchuckism is tempted to behave dishonourably. When this fails Donald pretends to be drowning to make Snozzie fail a test. But the hound does not leave its post until Donald gets in real danger, which leads to its expulsion from the organization. Being kicked out of the Junior Woodchuks is to much for the dog, and it forces Donald to make a delicious dish - which is what was needed for being reinstated and being given the title G.P.O.O.T.K.H. (Great Peerless Overseer Of The Kitchen Help).

The honourable being does not carry a grudge for this. It does, at least, help Donald winning a skating/fishing competition by releasing quite a few cats from Mee-yow Cat Farm in "Duck out of Luck"(WDC 294). The cats eat Gladstone's fish, and Donald wins because the tiny fish he finds in his pocket is the only "surviving" fish. The junior Woodchucks hound goes skating in this story, btw.

Maybe helping Donald is what causes Snoozie's cowardice in "Hound of the Moaning Hills" (JW 12-01/ D/D 2002-015). In this story the hound faints after seeing the footprints of a giant dog. Only when the Junior Woodchucks are in peril does the hound correct this shameful behaviour. The following fight results in "The Golden Bone of Meritoriousness."

Nevertheless, this is the time we see Snozzie. But, we see two other dogs used by the Junior Woodchucks. Donald's dog Bolivar (Boneworthy in this story) is trained as a recue dog in "Operation St.Bernhard" (WDC 125) - the perfect task for a St.Bernhard dog as long as it does not prefer the warmth of the hearth to rescuing people in a blizzard. Bolivar is never used as a Junior Woodchucks hound again, even though he is given a medal for saving five lives.

Pluto knows how to use the Junior Woodchucks guidebook

The cause of this may be that Bolivar eats his medal believing it is a cake, or it may be that a Junior Woodchucks hound has to know how to read. Snoozie and Pluto, at least, know how to read.

Pluto features in two stories (replacing the Snozzie at the request of an Western editor). In "Let Sleeping Bones Lie" (JW 8-01) the Junior Woodchucks find the remnants of a colossal prehistoric animal. Pluto saves the bones of Colossosaurus Duckburgus Woodchucki from Scrooge. First by blowing up Scrooge's machinery and later by putting Pie-eyedus Wierdus Nightmarus in the soup Scrooge is making in the snack bar he starts inside the skeleton. Later, in "The Day the Mountain Shook" (JW 13-01 / H 92051) Pluto discovers NAPOLEON'S FORMULA FOR BAKING EMERGENCY CANNON TIRES in the Junior Woodchucks guidebook. This enables the degraded Huey, Dewey and Louie to put Scrooge's giant whirling mountain grinder out of order so that they are reinstated as generals (being a beanhead is no fun).