The last couple of weeks have been hard, although I have been retired from tracking for a good couple of years, Heidi and I have enjoyed retirement.
2 weeks ago I had to make the painful decision to put Heidi to sleep, she had lost her final battle with cancer and the medication that was keeping it at bay was no longer working.
To say I took tacking to the extreme is no understatement, a pup from the KBGS breed club Germany, trained and tested in Germany, I flew a judge to the uk for the 2nd tracking test on a wing and a prayer and was lucky enough for a track which resulted in a 1km with chase resulting in a 2nd prize Hauprufung the first and almost certainly the last BGS in the UK to achieve this.
Her last track was a 5km track on a leg shot stag in the rut and pushed on by the stalker l, we didn’t manage to recover the animal because hunter didn’t listen, if he had of done we would have recovered the stag within 500m.
The days of me and dogs are now over I can’t do it again.
In the coming weeks when I’ve had a sort out I’ll be giving the last of my tracking gear away to a deserving handler who I hope wil take the jobs seriously.
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