re: German Sheperds trailing wounded deer

Why not try it? You can train the dog yourself. When you shoot a deer freeze the blood and keep it for training. Put the blood in a squirt bottle and start off by leaving an obvious trail for the dog with a treat at the end. Do this every day until he grows bored. As the days prgress make the blood harder to find and the trail lighter. By the end you should leave very vague trail even spraying small amounts of blood on the side of trees and none on the ground to really make the dog work. It is fun training a blood dog and you will be everyone's best friend when they can't find a deer.

You can definitely train a German Shepherd to trail a wounded deer. Mine has no problems getting tired easily. My lab on the other hand....