Thats the sign..
All others are lies/talltales...
I had an old feller offer to help me with a buck once, I told him it was gone, he told me to camp in his yard and we would find him. I would have taken him up on the offer but I had to go to work in Garland the next morning, I gave him my tag and a note for the Game Warden that said he could have it if he could find it...he may have, he had some badass Sounders...( Bayhounds/Sniffers)
A Sounder is a largeframed, bignosed dog( usually a Redbone or Catahoula) (not a Curdog), very common in E.Texas/Louisiana. Excellent for tracking when a human cannot.