yeah unless they smell dead, stiff as board with rigger, or warm and dead don't right them off. I had acorn that got loose and took me 4 months to find hime ( under the trailer then and he only lost the last 1/2 inch of tail to forst bite. ) and i still got him today at 15+ years old but he blind( cataracts in both eyse) andjust running out of go power anymore lol..