re: Deer Blood Tracking Dog

Just to add a story: I've got a 3 year old lab that I've been slowly training to track over the past few years. Any deer we kill we let him find, even if we see the deer fall. He has gotten obsessed with it. The problem is he was 112lbs at the last vet visit with no fat. Biggest lab I've ever seen. Long and long legged.

He is usually really very obedient and handles well. Main job at home is to make sure the couch doesn't float away. However, if he knows he is after a deer he will drag you through the brush, around trees, etc on a lead.

He knows where all our stands are and if we come get him from the kennel at the camp he tries to make a break for it and will backtrail you to the stand you were on. Like a black bowling ball tearing through the brush. Last deer my son killed, I went back to get the dog and he got past me coming out of the kennel. My son said if he didn't know that the dog was coming, he would have thought a bear was charging through the woods at him at night. Dog found the deer on his own.

He is the same way with hogs. Will jump up and down when we catch hogs in a trap. We have wild ducks that come into the pond in the back yard. He doesn't care anything about them. The ducks aren't even scared of him anymore.