Dog trackers .

[mereside]

I assume that it’s no different to Gundogs and poultry.

Our dogs will nail a pheasant / partridge that is injured or wrong but we keep hens at home and they wont look at them (well maybe I have a cocker who occasionally fetches one back when she has been left to her own devices for a while and gets bored

There is always a risk and you don’t know how dogs will ultimately react but you can be pretty confident.

100% confident, my dogs are around sheep, goats horses, we have a free range chicken farm and my hound will work the open paddock and bring a fox back without taking a hen, the training in the dog with working ability and then testing through the generations shows what the dogs will do, the training and then the tests are done to show any faults and work on these to be sure the dog will do what’s asked, even on live deer and boar they are put into situations under control to prove they are ready, as George said earlier dogs tracked off leash through Berlin with walkers dogs, deer and wild boar to track a wounded animal,
driven hunts where hundreds of different animals do not get dragged down only the wounded single beast, last year I worked a driven hunt and me and my hound had some really difficult tracks which other dogs didn’t complete but we had success.
when we know an animal is wounded other teams will try to complete and end suffering, knowbody has a dig sometimes a dog will go a huge distance and get exhausted and you have to carry on the whole notion of a dog off leash is out of control is totil bo lox and shows someone without proper knowledge of what our dogs can do, we have just taken on two new members who are going to both courses to be shown exactly what these dogs can do and will learn to understand and read these dogs and also see dogs in a sowgatter and how they are introduced to animals and work, later they will see driven game being followed and how many deer, boar they ignore to find that one wounded animal over many different shot sites and previous tracks, howy has never seen these dogs do this or he would not comment in such a way, regards wayne

 

[Dan Newcombe]

I have to admit that I had never seen a hound track deer until a couple years ago and to that point thought that they were a waste of food based on what I had seen.

Very simple track on a roe we knew where it had ended up but wanted to give the dog a run out.

Was like it was on rails and dragging the handler along. I was seriously impressed despite the simplicity of the track, wouldnt get one / don’t really need one as my labs will do what I need and I don’t really stalk enough to justify feeding another dog just for that but if people haven’t seen a proper deer dog work it would be well worth trying to arrange to understand it better.

 

[User00014]

I have to admit that I had never seen a hound track deer until a couple years ago and to that point thought that they were a waste of food based on what I had seen.

Very simple track on a roe we knew where it had ended up but wanted to give the dog a run out.

Was like it was on rails and dragging the handler along. I was seriously impressed despite the simplicity of the track, wouldnt get one / don’t really need one as my labs will do what I need and I don’t really stalk enough to justify feeding another dog just for that but if people haven’t seen a proper deer dog work it would be well worth trying to arrange to understand it better.

There is a massive difference between putting a dog on a fresh dead roe deer and tracking an actual wounded beast.

of course the dog is going to pull like a freight train.

Yesterday I did a call out on a leg shot beast 30 hrs after the shot for once boundary wasn’t the issue, I pulled the off the dog as we were heading to deep water on a marsh and I was in chest waders and almost up to my waist after almost 2km.

Heidi worked slow and methodically, she was bang on the track, but there come a point where you have to think of your own safety no matter how much you want to get the beast.

had another call out this morning but that was just a control (clean miss) form the evening before.