tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59643296045942476072024-03-14T05:38:48.643-04:00BORN-TO-TRACK BLOGTracking dogs for finding wounded big game. Also dachshunds for blood tracking, field trials, their breeding, training and more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-84590554418868895082022-07-05T16:53:00.000-04:002022-07-05T16:53:51.738-04:00John Jeanneney – A Visionary Leader Driven by His Passion<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p align="center" class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-align: center;">by Jolanta
Jeanneney</p><p align="center" class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-align: center;">Dachshund Club of America Newsletter, Summer 2022 </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNuB1-cJzPwL2XQFYYUszOLlt9QwxfvSglMIOiXzK9i83KyuhewSPTS9Tdt-SONh7tqmYg4ffh2C8mAqd008v2qAvQBSfRVuAOiYKfzMUce3bq9E_vsLSl_i0QeS7oAFZbZUEmki_ySSUlrLO4eD3evtMyQX-IWODl_S8wMqR3H3KJWKVsjw7aO65ZA/s2560/john-2022%20Collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNuB1-cJzPwL2XQFYYUszOLlt9QwxfvSglMIOiXzK9i83KyuhewSPTS9Tdt-SONh7tqmYg4ffh2C8mAqd008v2qAvQBSfRVuAOiYKfzMUce3bq9E_vsLSl_i0QeS7oAFZbZUEmki_ySSUlrLO4eD3evtMyQX-IWODl_S8wMqR3H3KJWKVsjw7aO65ZA/w640-h360/john-2022%20Collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-align: left;">On July 5, 2021 my heart was broken when John
Jeanneney, my husband of 26 years passed. He was 86. It was not unexpected; his
death followed a long decline. His world was gradually shrinking due to his
advanced age. I can still recall his last field trial that he attended, his
last attempt of tracking wounded deer, and his last training line. I even have
a picture when he held a puppy for the last time. There were so many “lasts”,
and with many of them we were not aware of their finality. With some we knew.
As a spouse and a solo caregiver, even though I knew what was coming, I was not
prepared for the aftermath. So many emotions, so many tears and so much sadness.
</p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">John has left an amazing legacy behind, which
involves establishing the standard dachshund as a true working dog in North
America. Very few people know how his love for dachshunds started.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">It all goes back to 1960s. In his private
autobiography written for his family John said: </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“As a graduate student at Columbia University I
applied for a Fulbright Grant, which would subsidize a year of research abroad.
Amazingly, I was accepted to do work in the archives of the France National
Forestry School (Ecole Nationale Forestière) at Nancy in eastern France. At the
forestry school I had all the privileges of an exchange student. The Forestry
School had hunting privileges in a nearby National Forest. I enjoyed being a
beater driving out deer and wild boar to the guns of my fellow students. It was
on these hunts that I first saw the use of tracking dogs. The French were just
beginning to use tracking dogs to find wounded big game. At the time the
Germans were much more advanced in this art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A German student friend invited me to spend a vacation break in Germany,
and I learned more about this use of leashed tracking dogs. One of the breeds
used was the small hunting Teckel, a European alternative to the longer,
heavier, more extreme American/English Dachshund. </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">I had to have one of these Teckels. Mary Lou (John’s
first wife) and I would be living in a 9th floor city apartment when we
returned to New York New York. A twenty pound Teckel was the one hunting dog
that would fit into this environment as I finished my Ph.D. dissertation.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">I bought my first Teckel, Carla vom Rode in 1966,
and she came back to the States with us. When I could get away on weekends to
my parents' country places upstate, Carla hunted rabbits, pheasants, and
raccoons at night. She was the versatile dog that the German breed standard
called for. I did not track wounded deer with Carla because this was strictly
forbidden in the northern United States.”</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">With his Ph.D. completed John started to teach
history at Hofstra University on Long Island, NY. He moved to Wantagh, where he
lived for five years. He wrote:</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“The five years in Wantagh were not all bad. There
was undeveloped State Park Land, and it was there that I took my Teckel, Carla,
to run rabbits. Dachshund field trials began to be offered in New Jersey. Carla
rapidly became an AKC Field Champion. </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">In 1982 work was started on a greatly expanded
version of the original “Dachshund Field Trial Rules”. Gordon Heldebrant,
President of the North California Dachshund Club, took the initiative in
getting the project moving. I worked closely with Gordon from the East where
the majority of dachshund field trialers were located at the time. Our more
precise rules adapted from the AKC Brace Trial rules for beagles were accepted
by the AKC and The Dachshund Club of America. They are essentially the official
dachshund field trial rules in use in the USA today.”</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">John has always been an avid hunter, and he wanted
to move into a more rural setting.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“It was in the 1970s, while living at Clinton
Corners, that my fascination with tracking dogs for finding wounded deer burst
forth. I was hunting on an estate in southern Dutchess County, New York, when I
took, what I thought was a careful shot at a big doe. A twig, which I could not
see at 50 yards, deflected the 12 gauge shotgun slug so it did not hit the deer
where I had aimed. There was no blood trail after the beginning, and though I
searched all day, I never could find the deer. Two weeks later, some hunters
mentioned that they had found a big dead doe in a swale a half mile from where
I had shot. This was very upsetting, even more so because I had learned about
leashed tracking dogs in Germany. That doe could have been readily found with a
trained tracking dog, but this was highly illegal, not only in New York State,
but throughout the northern part of the USA.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">I thought a lot about the incident and a year later
had the opportunity to try an experiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A Department of Environmental Conservation employee, who had law
enforcement credentials, asked me to find a gut shot deer for him. His
credentials made a tracking dog legal in his case. I took Clary von Moosbach, my
tracking wirehaired dachshund at that time, to the one visible spot of blood,
and she started out on a short, six foot leash. After about a quarter mile I
happened to notice a smear of blood on a sapling. Clary continued to track, no
checks or hesitations, and in another quarter mile there lay the dead deer.
Finding deer was easy, or so it seemed at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">Some of the next steps toward the legalization of
leashed tracking dogs were a lot more difficult than finding my first wounded
deer. It began pleasantly, with another trip to France where I met Hubert Stoquert,
who was a regional wildlife manager in eastern France. Stoquert gave me the
same introduction to tracking wounded deer that we have given so many times
since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He worked a young wirehaired
dachshund on a training bloodline, showing me how to train a dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we went back to his house, looked at
dogs, saw slides and talked long into the evening. He generously shared his
time and knowledge even though his wife was going into the hospital for surgery
the next morning. Stoquert was in the final stages of setting up a tracking dog
network in eastern France. When I got home I had a clear idea of what I wanted
to do. For many<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reasons the French and
German blood tracking procedures couldn't be directly imitated in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the United<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>States, but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the general<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>philosophy, if<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not the details, of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>clean,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>responsible hunting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and good<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sportsmanship were the same. </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">The details of convincing New York's Department of
Environmental Conservation (DEC) to permit a research project are too lengthy
and complex to describe here. The positive recommendations by Bill Wadsworth,
patron of bowhunting, certainly played an important role in the granting of
that research permit in 1976. Clary did outstanding work, and local, public
acceptance of the "wild, radical idea" of leashed tracking dogs was
favorable. Cautiously, the DEC added more handlers to my permit and expanded
the area within New York State where the experimental use of leashed tracking
dogs was permitted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1978 the
individuals on the tracking permit formed the promotional and educational
association, Deer Search Inc., which was eventually to become a state-wide
organization, divided into chapters. Deer Search’s system of tracking dog
testing was similar to the German prototype.”</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">The Deer Search concept spread through national
publications, and finally legalization of leashed tracking dogs in New York
took place in 1986, largely through John's efforts. John has always considered
this legalization as one of the most important accomplishments of his life.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">John and I have met for the first time in the early
1990s. At the time I worked as a canola breeder and research station manager
for Pioneer Hi-Bred in Edmonton, Alberta. I was married to my first husband
Chris, and I was just starting as a breeder of wirehaired dachshunds. John was
based in Clinton Corners, NY, but he taught history at Hofstra University on
Long Island. He was married too. Of course we met because of our love for
working dachshunds, and at the time we both had French imports. I imported from
France FC Fausto de la Grande Futaie, he had FC Sheriff du Bellerstein aka Max.
Back then people used to write letters, and we exchanged a lot of them, mainly
about dachshunds and their pedigrees. I still have the letters – one of mine
was eight pages long. At the time breeders associated with Deer Search had
several litters of dachshunds out of imported stock that showed a genetic
defect, which later was diagnosed as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">osteogenesis
imperfecta</i>. John appreciated my help with trying to solve the issue of this
mysterious disease.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">After having divorced our spouses, we were married
on December 29, 1995. I quit my job and moved to Clinton Corners. And as they
say… the rest is history. </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">John bred his first litter in 1968, and he followed
the German system of naming puppies according to alphabet. He bred under “von
Moosbach” kennel name, which in German means “Mossy Brook”. His last “von Moosbach”
litter was an “R” litter. When we combined our breeding programs we started to
use the name “von Moosbach-Zuzelek”, and our first litter bred together, the
“S” litter was born in February 1994. I don’t know how many Field Champions we
have bred because it was never a priority for us, especially for John. Above
all he valued usefulness of deer tracking dachshunds and thought that they have
to prove themselves in the field, on a real job.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">In 1999 we moved to a rural Berne in Albany County.
Our 34 acre farm property is ideal for breeding and training tracking/hunting wirehaired
dachshunds. Once John retired in 2000 he finally could focus exclusively on his
passion full time – tracking wounded deer for hunters, promoting the idea on a
national scale through writing and workshops, and breeding Teckels according to
the German standard for tracking/hunting purposes. </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">John and I co-founded the North American Teckel Club
(NATC) in 2000 and the United Blood Trackers in 2005. John spent 41 years tracking
wounded deer and bear for hunters. In most cases when he did not recover the
deer, he was able to establish that this animal was not mortally wounded and
would survive.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">In the 2000s, the publication and strong sales of
John's self-published books, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tracking
Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dead
On!</i> played a large role in the expansion of the use of tracking dogs across
the United States. As of 2022 it is legal to use tracking dogs in recovery of
wounded big game in 44 states. His adaptation and development of the European
tradition of finding wounded game with dogs was the accomplishment John was
most proud of over the course of his "long and very good life", as he
described it.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">Last spring, while John’s 86<sup>th</sup> Birthday
was approaching I asked our Facebook friends to send him a birthday card for
the occasion. More than 100 cards came. These are some quotes from them:</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“I want to thank you in so many ways… You have
touched so many lives… including mine with kindness and help. You are truly a
legend when it comes to tracking dogs and have helped so many hunters and
others across this country to do exactly what you have done for so many years.
You started something that continues to grow to this day”. </p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“Your passion for tracking and the breed has really
rubbed off on me and I am very grateful”,</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“The mark you have on all of us will be one that
will never be topped”,</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“Thanks for all your contributions and sacrifices to
deer hunters, trackers and dog owners all over the globe”,</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">“Thank you for not only sharing your skills but also
building a community and friendships that will last a lifetime”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">There has been an incredible outpouring of love for
him on social media following the announcement of his death. A friend said
“John was a man with a passion. He lived his passion, and shared his passion,
and ignited the passion in others”. And another quote: “The positive domino
effect continues as more areas legislate wounded game tracking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has impacted countless dogs, handlers,
States, Provinces, and communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
has directly or indirectly helped thousands of big game animals be found for
hunters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, he has inspired the tracking
organizations that lead all over North America.”</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">In 2017 United Blood Trackers hosted their annual
event in Berne, NY. During the banquet John gave a short speech and said: “The
relationship between a tracker and their dog is special, it is not one of
command and obey. The dog is neither tool nor toy, you are partners giving each
other advice. Each brings something to the work that the other doesn’t have and
cannot do alone.” It sums up well John’s stand on partnership of a handler and
his tracking dog, based on their relationship.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">His outstanding contributions to the sport of
hunting and conservation led to John's 1994 induction into the Sports Museum of
Dutchess County and his 2012 induction into the New York State Outdoorsmen Hall
of Fame.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent">He is sorely missed by so many.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><i>by Jolanta Jeanneney </i><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">It has been 4.5 months since John Jeanneney passed on July 5, 2021. It
is still hard to think and write about it, but it is also a right thing to do.
You can read John's obituary <a href="https://simplechoicescremation.com/tribute/details/723/John-Jeanneney/obituary.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Recently my friend Kelley Doolin had to write a class
assignment about a visionary leader. I was touched that she wrote about John in
her article. Thank you Kelley!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">“When reading about visionary leaders in Shashkin's article,
John Jeanneney came to my mind. He was an avid hunter, and after losing a
wounded deer, he applied for and received a research license from New York
State's Department of Environmental Conservation to investigate if it was
possible to use leashed tracking dogs to find wounded game. He went on to
co-found an organization called Deer Search Inc. to expand the research across
the state. Ten years later, after a lot of hard work and dedication, the use of
leashed tracking dogs was legalized in New York. John co-founded an
organization called United Blood Trackers which has become a great resource to
hunters and aspiring or current trackers. As part of their mission, United
Blood Trackers hopes to promote legalization of tracking dogs in all 50 states
and, as of now, most states have legalized tracking wounded game. One of the
books that John wrote, Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer, has become known
as the “tracker’s bible” and outlines blood tracking dogs, dog selection,
training and use.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">John exhibited traits of a visionary leader, he had the
vision of using dogs to help track wounded animals. He got the support of
governmental officials to conduct research throughout the state. He worked with
others to help teach them how to train their dogs and track game. John found a
solution to allow hunters to have better luck finding the animals they had
wounded and lost”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Every year I produce a calendar with our teckels. This year
several of my friends suggested that John should be in the calendar. So to honor his memory I designed
the calendar with John’s pictures showing him with his dogs. The calendar can be ordered <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y3rw5p8j" target="_blank">HERE</a>. These are the
pictures: </p>
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I hope that you are going to enjoy the calendar as much as I did while I was working on it. I have done calendars with wirehaired dachshunds in 2013-16. Last year I ran out of time, and I know that I left some people disappointed. I am trying to redeem myself this winter. The calendar is available through cafepress: <a href="https://www.cafepress.com/calendarsbyjolanta.380166099" target="_blank">click here</a>. It is "printed on demand" - you order it
from them, they print it and ship it to you directly while I get a small
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">We didn't have any puppies in 2018 so for puppy pictures I had to go back to 2017. The cover shows two pups out of Tommy and Tuesday, our A-litter. From the left: Andi von Moosbach-Zuzelek lives now with Jerry Gregston in Oklahoma. Artie von Moosbach-Zuzelek, called Enzo, is a tracking partner of Blair Smyth in Virginia. These pups were born on April 9, 2017.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">January picture, which is one of my all-time favorites, shows Bernie (FC Darin von Moosbach-Zuzelek), Kunox (FC Kunox von der </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dohlmühle</span>) and Mielikki (FC Mielikki Raptor). This picture was taken in February 2014, and when I look at it, it stirs my soul. These were happy times, especially for these three dogs. Since then Bernie has passed (I miss him dearly), and Kunox and Mielikki are in their new homes (I miss them too). Being a breeder leaves you with a heavy heart on so many occasions. You have to make hard decisions - your heart screams "enjoy the dogs you have and don't add any new ones to the pack", but then you have to consider your future breeding plans. Often dogs who are retired from breeding (like Mielikki after 2 C-sections) are better off in a new home, where they are a part of a much smaller pack. Anyway, Mielikki enjoys very much her new life in Maine, and Kunox tracks for Rom Rausch in northern NY. Both decisions to rehome these dogs were heart breaking for me but very good for the dogs.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">February picture shows Willow (FC Willow von Moosbach-Zuzelek), a lovely daughter of Kunox and Tuesday. Willow was born on March 9, 2015, and we hope to breed her in 2019. She combines the best features of her two parents.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">April picture goes back several years. It is a very young Mossy Brooke (Viola von Moosbach-Zuzelek), a super tracking dog owned by Judy Catrett from Georgia. By now Mossy Brooke has recovered over 100 deer, and we are very proud of her. She is a daughter of Tommy and Tuesday, a full sister to Andi and Artie. For more on Mossy Brooke see the November picture.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">May picture is of Z-puppies, which were born on March 26, 2017. This litter was co-bred with Cheri Faust, who is an owner of the dam FC Uta von Moosbach-Zuzelek. Puppies were whelped and raised in Wisconsin, and then they came here for four weeks. Cheri kept two pups for herself, Zeus and Zenyatta, who became Field Champions quickly. Zale (Aldo), Zorro, Zack (Cooper) and Zander von Moosbach-Zuzelek are trackers of wounded game in Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia, respectively. BTW, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Aldo (Zale von Moosbach-Zuzelek) owned by Lindsay Ware from Maine participated in 103 tracks and recovered 34 animals (6 bears and 28 deer)! </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">June picture shows Odin von der Dohlmühle, who was born on August 9, 2017, and was bred by Annelie Grauer from Germany. Odin is handsome, talented dog with a super nice head and soulful eyes. He always has his nose to the ground, and loves to track and hunt.</span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a picture of FC Keena von Moosbach-Zuzelek, who turned 13 years old on April 7, 2018. Keena used to be a tracking partner of our friend Dan until he moved to Texas this summer. She is doing OK in her old age, but her arthritis and heart problems have started to interfere a little bit with her quality of life. She is still full of piss and vinegar though!</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">August picture shows FC Joeri vom Nonnenschlag, who is going to turn 11 this coming February. Joeri loves to swim and retrieve from our pond. Joeri and John are inseparable. He is a dog of many talents, with a lot of soul and heart.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">FC Tom vom Linteler-Forst is still our top tracking dog. He is going to turn 11 this coming March, but he is still very much a puppy - can be very playful and and just plain silly. This year Tommy was tracking for our friends. Actually anybody who sees him tracking says what an amazing dog he is. He turned out to be a great producer as well.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Odette von der Dohlmühle, a sister of Odin, born August 9, 2017, is a small mischievous 16-lb female full of fire. This summer she showed how much she loves to swim and retrieve from the pond. She loves to track, go to the ground and chase rabbits while opening on them. A truly versatile teckel.</span></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">This picture was taken by Judy Catrett and shows Mossy Brooke (Viola von Moosbach-Zuzelek) with a young hunter Jake. In Judy's own words: </span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">Jolanta, you ACED it when you chose Viola to be our puppy. If
everything you have done in life has been this accurate, I would consider you
to be most astute at your endeavors. I wanted a pup who could/would communicate
with me. This little girl has graduated from Communication 200. When we track Mossy
Brooke communicates to me that the deer is within 10-30 yards in front of us
alive. This has proven to be one of her most helpful traits in our tracking.
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off. Mossy Brooke’s vocabulary continues to grow. She loves to lay next to me
on my pillow after tracking and we talk about the tracks we have done that day.
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keep talking if I stop. She eventually falls to sleep and before long, her
little feet are running and she is quietly barking as I am sure she is dreaming
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiEfZIr2oPrD3_XetNKJDZGVI6xajirkJAGN5Uos6POqukdOUkjE6ll4Nd_uj7u9kbVA6P3nRGn1MPzrA8UAi-NpJJvU3QGrHEb5p5RzY6P9xLiZGFzaXDJtbw3psrQLNK4iaLNiy8ACgW/s1600/2019-12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="1600" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiEfZIr2oPrD3_XetNKJDZGVI6xajirkJAGN5Uos6POqukdOUkjE6ll4Nd_uj7u9kbVA6P3nRGn1MPzrA8UAi-NpJJvU3QGrHEb5p5RzY6P9xLiZGFzaXDJtbw3psrQLNK4iaLNiy8ACgW/s640/2019-12.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">December picture was taken last winter and shows our inquisitive Xena von Moosbach-Zuzelek, who was born on July 26, 2015. Xena is a daughter of Dachs von Tierspur (Billy's son) and FC Mielikki Raptor. She is a high energy hunting dog who never quits. We hope to breed her in 2019.</span></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-72565037685774704492018-11-09T11:30:00.000-05:002018-11-09T15:54:41.812-05:00Our breeding plans for 2019<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We get a lot of questions about our breeding
plans for 2019. Yes, we are going to have puppies. How many litters, we don't know yet. To help you plan we have created a sign-up form, where you can add
your name and email so we can notify you once we make a decision. By
adding your name to the list, you are guaranteed that you will receive
email from us once we decide to have puppies. In no way it means that
you are on our waiting list or that you will get a puppy. We screen all
our buyers very carefully and it is a multi-step process that involves
filling out a questionnaire and phone conversations. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To add your name to
the notification list, go to <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="async" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Feepurl.com%2Fc3v7Rf&h=ATPSnRLYq0PblKwjd9VHgmZ0j8Bew_NKPQuZZ_an0m623CkPm8vRxECfl-mfTTA0EVMH1qwiDaOplotHvS8GVhx4UYlGcCXYCKmckT6xp6m01IB-Zv29rgfKJ9tLrouDfxEeD87UR77fXdw57NIqpxezT9NaFQnVipSr4plSUziWHwjVI0mdOyaghbGxs67qjjrazCGbZsMEbrNWQiVBgZkEn6MqvsqcvLTruNwki31hR9lGwljqLSfupcMX2G8CLB9BRQgjBO-eC91DB1PneWWg2OI_Zauo8326kGLv__uQKiPayikNUcuZ0A" href="http://eepurl.com/c3v7Rf" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/c3v7Rf</a>. It would not hurt to read more about how we raise and sell our puppies:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.born-to-track.com/buying-puppy.htm"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">www.born-to-track.com/buying-puppy.htm</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.born-to-track.com/how-we-raise-our-dogs.htm">www.born-to-track.com/how-we-raise-our-dogs.htm</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="style1481"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We sell puppies only to people who are serious about tracking and would like to track for other people, not just their family and friends. A tracking dog learns a lot on the job. He will never be developped to his full potential if he is used only 5 times a year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We do not ship puppies so you will have to come to Berne, NY (40 minutes from Albany, NY, which has an International Airport) to pick up your puppy when the pup is 10-12 weeks old.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">All our puppies come
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tuesday had two puppies in 2017, and they were born on April 9. Andi is owned by Jerry Gregston from Oklahoma and Artie is going to track for Blair Smyth from Virginia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FC Uta von Moosbach-Zuzelek, co-owned with Cheri Faust, whelped six puppies on March 26, 2017. They are Zeus, Zorro,, Zack, Zander, Zale and Zenyatta. This litter we co-bred with Cheri, who decided to keep two puppies - Zeus and Zenyatta.</td></tr>
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I have not expected to receive any pictures of recoveries from Pete Martin this year as his Lisa von Moosbach-Zuzelek is 13.5 years old. Boy, was I wrong! This recovery is the 19th bear in Lisa's tracking career. Huge congratulations to Pete and Lisa! </div>
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Pete wrote in his email:</div>
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Sunday, October 21, 2018 was the day of this awesomely
memorable bear track. I received the call the nite before. The shot was
taken @ 5:30 p.m. Hunter waited a good hour before looking. In the dark he
took up track with his buddy and proceeded to follow blood for about 75-100 yds.
No arrow found but recovered the luminock glowing in the dark. When he came to a 1/2
acre recently cleared logged area, hunter backed out for the night. This is where
Lisa and I started track next day 18 hours later. </div>
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No blood to get started on, but
Lisa picked up scent and went across this soft wet dirt/rock area to the woods
on the other side. We crawled 30 or so yards in on our hands and knees, and Lisa took me
right over top of blood. Our confidence soared. Now Lisa was very vocal. Another
25 yards, another spot of blood. Little ways more hunter noticed blood. After a very
thick mountain laurel we came to logged road. </div>
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This was Lisa's first check. 15
minutes, round and round, and back again, where we came from only slightly to the
left. A while later another check in the laurel. Small circles and zig-zags.
After figuring this one out, she had positive body language and nose glued to the
ground. Then another point of confusion before she picked it up again. All this
time she was vocal when tracking and quiet when checking. So focused you could see what
she was thinking. Just when we started to have some doubts, Lisa got quiet, pulled me to a beautiful black bear and started to claim her prize.</div>
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Yet
another two hour lesson in trust taught to us by Lisa. She wiped all shadows of
doubt anyone could have had about her ability to track so flawlessly because of
her age and weight. This was black bear #19 at age 13 1/2 years old. I can't
ask for anything more of a blessing. Thank you John and Jolanta.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-43180221542149974232018-01-28T19:56:00.000-05:002018-01-28T20:40:22.613-05:00John's last training line<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>by John Jeanneney</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You young trackers</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">have many good years ahead of you, but eventually things wind down. As
old tracker, I can give you a preview of what is coming eventually. First I had
to give up taking calls to find deer. I just couldn't navigate steep slopes and
thick cover due to poor balance and lack of leg strength. But at least I had
the comfort of knowing that I could still train puppies on easier terrain. I
could still work with my dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the end of January there was a break in the winter weather
and the ground was bare. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I took out Odin, age five and a half months, on a 22 hour line, 375
yards long. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Odin's is a puppy from
Germany, and he had not had much training in tracking before the snow came. Odin was
doing amazingly good work on the old line with its six right angle turns. Then
I fell down in the flat, easy</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">woods and
lost my grip on the plastic clothes line that I use as a tracking leash with
half-grown puppies. What a nuisance it is to be 82 years old and semi-competent!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Odin took off, as I struggled to crawl to a tree and pull myself back up on my feet. When I hobbled
ahead to the last turn I could see Odin a 150 yards ahead. He had followed the
blood line around the last turn and was "baying" at the deer skin. He
didn't quite know what to do with it, but he knew that it was the treasure at
the end of the track, and that this was important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My instability in the woods, falling down and all, forced me
to admit to myself that even training</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">puppies to track was now beyond my capability; this sad day </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">was softened by Odin's brilliant work at a young age. I will live on in the memory and spirit of my dogs.</span></div>
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<i>Thank you Justin and Suzette for this beautiful write-up of Remi's track. Remi (Remy von Moosbach-Zuzelek) is owned/handled by Justin Richins of <a href="http://www.thehuntingcompany.com/" target="_blank">R&K Hunting Company</a>. Now 7.5 years old, he is a
son of FC Joeri vom Nonnenschlag and FC Gilda von Moosbach-Zuzelek. He
is one of the most accomplished dogs we have ever bred. Thank you
Justin!</i></div>
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Yesterday, was quite a day. It started off with waking up
to our little Yorkie completely lifeless. We rushed him to Marion Lott, at
River Valley Vet, barely breathing. They spent quite a while trying to bring
him back & get him going again. He had gone into hypoglycemic shock, and I
thought for sure he was gone. As we were anxiously waiting, praying he would
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During the midst of this, I received a phone call from our friends at J&J,
saying they had wounded a deer Wednesday evening, and were wondering if Remi
the wonder dog could track it down. I left with Remi & his gear in tow, and
we headed towards the mountains. This turned out to be one of the most intense,
grueling, difficult tracks this little teckel has done. We started out in the
high country, in a mix of chaparral & pine trees, worked our way around the
mountain, down a rock slide, through several thick oak brush and maple stands,
down the middle of a few two track roads, and across some grazed off
pastures. Just as we were about to call
off the search, due to extreme fatigue, exhaustion, and being completely out of
water, we caught a glimpse of what looked to be an antler between some grass
and sage brush. Sure enough, against all odds, and some extremely wicked
terrain, Remi saved the day once again! </div>
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The track was over 3.5 miles long, not
including all the loops and back checking work the dog has to do, to
continually double check himself. Calculating that distance in, the miles were
easily doubled. Every time I work with Remi on a track, especially one of this
magnitude, he never ceases to amaze me. Especially considering he has been run
over by a 3/4 ton truck, which required him to have a total hip replacement,
was gored by a deer, which lacerated his liver, and punctured his intestine, went
head to head with a coyote, multiple throw downs with porcupines, disappeared the whole day, after jumping out of the truck in the rugged mountains of
Wyoming, to go after an antelope that he watched fall down after trying to
justo through a fence, signaling the "this must be a wounded animal I need
to track" response. My little soul mate has definitely defied all odds on
multiple occasions. We gutted the deer, gave Remi his liver reward, then quickly
sped home to watch my other son play his last football game. He threw some
amazing passes, and a long distance
touchdown pass. I am so grateful for these boys of mine. Definitely a
proud papa, full of miracles day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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R&K Hunting Company Inc. <o:p></o:p></div>
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passionate tracker, is not easy. Here are the ways that Joeri and I handled the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> First, let me write about
Joeri, who understands well that the bond between tracking dog and handler
endures, even when adventures in the woods are over. Joeri is beside my chair as I write this. If
I go to another room, the bathroom, for example, he follows. He sleeps with me
on my bed.</span></div>
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around the house. But it is an old, dry deer leg, hair, hoofs and all, which he
carries with him everywhere in the house. This is not for chewing, but it is a souvenir
of the best years of his life that he will not forget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In parallel with Joeri I have my own souvenirs. On my desk
are my "trophy antlers” that a little, six point buck knocked off against
my jaw and chest as he charged me near the end of the track. The buck "cold
conked" me and gored Sabina, my tracking dog. With a deep gash in her
flank, Sabina was licking my face as I came to and opened my eyes after the
blow. We kept on tracking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up with joy when I found their deer. My tracking dog and I shared the hunters'
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and realize that I am no longer capable of taking a real live call. I feel
useless, and all I can do is answer the telephone and dispatch calls to other trackers Some of them use
another of my dogs, Tommy, whom I trained and tracked with up until my final good
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We wish all our friends and readers a Very Happy New Year! We hope that the 2017 brings you many occasions to laugh and enjoy life.<br />
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Since we have posted very little in 2016, I'd like to take some time now to look back. We are going to skip dogs' registered names and their titles as this is not what this post is about. <br />
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<b>OUR DOGS</b><br />
At the end of December of 2016 we have ten dogs ranging greatly in age. Our oldest is BILLy, who in two months is going to turn 13. He has a heart murmur that is checked periodically but otherwise he is in a fine shape. He looks and behaves like a middle-aged dog. This fall he managed to get away from our enclosure and was gone running rabbits in the neighborhood for 5 hours. His old age has not diminished his hunting desire, that's for sure. And in spite of cloudy eyes, he can still catch a piece of cheese in the air!<br />
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The second oldest dog is Billy's daughter KEENA, who turned 11 on April 7. Keena is really our friend's dog. Dan Hardin had her for a couple of years, but when he got married and moved out from his parents' house, Keena came back to live with us. Dan visits us often and spends some time with her. This year Dan and Keena still tracked together and they found a number of deer. Keena is in a good shape though her stamina during tracking was not what it used to be.<br />
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Bernie turned 11 in October. Even though BERNIE is "just" our pet, he plays here a very important role. First, he always makes me smile as he is such a happy dog. His joie de vivre is truly infectious. And he has always been wonderful with puppies so he plays a role of a Big Uncle to all our pups and young dogs. They adore him and he is very patient with them.<br />
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JOERI (below) is going to turn 9 in February 2017. Readers of this blog probably remember that he had a back problem over 4 years ago. These days Joeri
is feeling really well. He can gauge well what he can do physically. He was not allowed to climb the stairs and he obeyed the rule. But last summer, on his own initiative, he started to appear in the kitchen, which is on the second level. Now he scales the stairs regularly on his own. I guess he started to feel confident about his health and
it is really good to see him enjoying life. He runs in our yard with
other dogs and he can outrun some of them. Joeri is John's shadow and follows him everywhere.<br />
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TOMMY is going to be 9 in March 2017, and he has been our tracking star for a
number of years now (basically since Joeri's surgery in 2012). This past
tracking season was the first time ever when John was not able to track. But
as it turned out Tommy was happy to track for anybody that was willing
to take him out. He ended up being
handled successfully by 5 different local handlers. So even though John
has
always attributed a "strong bond" as the key to a tracking team's
success, Tommy showed much more flexibility on the issue :-) It just did
not
matter much to him who took him to track, and he was just very happy to
go. I guess
some dogs are a "one person" kind of dog, but he is not the type. He
is ecstatic when he sees a harness and tracking lead, and since he is
very
experienced, easy going and not possessive of deer at all, we let him
go. All
his handlers have DEC tracking dog license and always say how much they
learn
by handling Tommy. At one point they will get their own dogs, but having
handled Tommy has been very helpful to them. So Tommy ended up
recovering 9 deer and having a lot of fun in the process. Tommy also sired our only litter of 2016 and Yukon is his son.<br />
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TUESDAY is going to be 5 in April 2017, and at present she is our best field trial dog. Last fall I took her to 6 field trials and she placed in 4 of them with 1 Absolute win. Tuesday had a litter of 4 pups on July 3, but we will cover this in a separate post. She is in her prime now, this is her pack and she knows it. She has two "kids" here - Willow (sired by Kunox) and Yukon (sired by Tommy). I love everything about Tuesday - her conformation, temperament and her working ability. If we could breed consistently dogs like her, I would be really satisfied. As a puppy she was a pretty wild dog completely controlled by her hunting instinct. She would not recall. With very little training and a lot of attention she turned into a very responsive dog that is a pure pleasure to work with<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kunox is 3.5 now. Loaded with hunting desire, he loves to run rabbits at our
place, and he is very good at it. Nothing beats hearing him voice freely
while in pursuit of cottontails. Kunox is a dog with a lot of soul, and
I love to have him by my side when I work on the computer in my offic<span style="font-family: inherit;">e.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>One look at his giant brown liquid-center eyes and it seems
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WILLOW will be two in March; she is a daughter of Kunox and Tuesday. She is a beautiful dog that inherited the best qualities of her parents. Her voice on rabbits is as good as Kunox's. She has been excellent on artificial training tracks. She is probably one of the best dogs we have ever bred, and we have bred quite a few of them. Last fall she finished her AKC Field Championship.<br />
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XENA is 18 months old, and she is a daughter of Dachs von Tierspur and FC Mielikki Raptor. This is a dog with a lot of energy and a ton of hunting drive. She is 22 lbs of pure muscle. There is still much unknown about Xena and we will be learning about her abilities in 2017. So far I have not heard her voicing on rabbits even though obviously she follows them. The picture below shows Xena with the rabbit she killed.<br />
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YUKON is a promising six-month-old son of Tommy and Tuesday. So far we like what we see in him, and the future will tell whether it was a right decision to hold on to him. He keeps us on our toes and he is highly entertaining. His conformation follows the FCI standard as he has good ground clearance and is long legged. <br />
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So at the end of 2016 we hope for all our dogs to stay healthy and well in 2017. They are our family and we care for them deeply. It is very rewarding to see that our breeding program (Willow is a great-great granddaughter of Billy) has produced dogs like Tuesday and Willow - under 20 lbs, with a great conformation, lovely temperaments and excellent aptitude for hunting and tracking. And it is even more rewarding to see what dogs out of our breeding can accomplish in the field for their owners and we will write about it in the next installment.<br />
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I have been
bow hunting in New York (and occasionally elsewhere) for over 20 years. Over this time, I have gone from taking a few
deer to dozens each year. This is
explained, in part, by the fact that I have been involved with implementing and
executing suburban deer management programs using archery equipment in the
Ithaca, NY area. These often involve
Deer Depredation Permits (colloquially called nuisance permits) that allow
shooting outside of regular hunting seasons, over bait, and at night with the
help of artificial lights. The goal is
to reduce deer populations that are threatening crops or forest regeneration,
and other species. My season currently
stretches over 6 months, typically from late September to the end of
March. Having a slight red-green
blindness (I can see individual colors just fine, but when red and green dots
are interspersed, I am unable to pick up the red), following blood trails is
not an easy task for me since blood drops do not “light up” as they do for
others. Consequently, I have honed my
skills over the years due to patience, slow approaches, reading signs like hoof
prints, and asking for help from others (my wife Vicki and other landowners
included). This has helped greatly but I
also had my fair share of grid searches and long hours after dark, or the next
morning to locate deer. And not always
have they been successful, particularly not in tall goldenrods or cattail
swamps, or dense thickets of honeysuckle, privet, buckthorn and multiflora rose
that are common in suburban areas.
Sometimes it was the vultures that needed to tell me where I walked by a
dead deer at 5 or 10 yards, or I found only bones the next morning as bears,
coyotes, bobcats and foxes have helped themselves to a welcome late dinner. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the years I called in and
observed several dachshunds do their tracking searches and I had become more
and more interested in developing this approach for myself, and in helping
other hunters. It seemed the right thing
to do, but there was a lot of homework that needed to be done, including
convincing my wife that a dog in the house and in the family would be a good
idea. It took several years of reading
and background work, and some planning for the right time to train a puppy
before this last year finally saw it all come together. I had settled on obtaining a Deutsch
Drahthaar (a Schwarzschimmel) because I had fallen in love with the breed after
seeing a six-month old “trainee” at the Rhode Island airport. I wanted a medium sized dog, and a versatile
hunting dog, although I rarely, if ever, venture out for upland or waterfowl
hunting. But I am an ecologist and
conservationist in my professional life and I wanted to maintain a potential
option for the dog to be trained as a conservation dog in finding rare
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Having grown up in Germany I pursued options to obtain a puppy both in
the US and in Germany, where I worked with a breed warden. And this connection paid off when a breeder
had a litter of 10 puppies born on New Years Eve, eight of which were
Schwarzschimmel, with a good blood tracking pedigree and other physical
features my wife and I were favoring. We
picked up Sylvie (the name is an inspirational combination of the date, known
as Sylvester in Germany and over much of Europe in honor of an early pope, and
the Latin Sylva for forest where the dog will spend a major portion of her
time) in late February, spent a week with relatives to help socialize her, and
then returned in early March with her in the cabin to New York. And I have been training her ever since
through late spring, summer, and fall on artificial lines, always looking
forward to the start of the season. It
did not always go as desired, she failed miserably on her first overnight
track, and the hot and dry summer of 2016 made tracking conditions difficult. But she always was eager to work and dog and
handler are trying to learn each other’s approaches. Most of the time I try to slow her down as
speed appears to be the enemy number one when she overshoots and then loses the
track. But she has learned to circle back
and around to pick up where she lost the trail.
Over this time she has grown from an adorable little puppy to nearly her
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One of the
recommendations is to have practice runs for dog apprentices, i.e having the
dog find a dead deer, even if a dog is not necessary. Just for good practice on the real thing. But the first call that came in on October 3<sup>rd</sup>
was the real thing. A hunter had shot a
deer in a suburban area surrounded by houses, lawns and roads. There was a reasonable blood trail that the
hunter was able to follow for maybe 200 yards to two large blotches of blood
and then nothing. After not being able
to find any more blood that evening the hunter backed out. I took the tracking opportunity after the
report of a high hit but out of a treestand with a downward trajectory, and
good lung blood on the arrow. We started
the track in the early afternoon, some 15 hours after the hit. Sylvie took right to the track, and she was
much slower and more deliberate than on the artificial tracks, something I
immediately noticed. My artificial lines
may have been too easy, even though I thought I was making it more and more difficult. The area of brush and woods was crisscrossed
by deer trails but Sylvie followed the trail down the path the hunter had
marked to the spot with the abundant blood and then further towards the edge of
the woods ending on a lawn. She lost the
track twice during this time, but only briefly and circled right back without
me needing to correct her. But at the
edge of the lawn she was unsure and then appeared to follow other interesting
scents. I walked her back around in the
thicket and we started over, all the while discussing with the hunter what
could have happened. The second path was
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the woods, look into some hedgerows, go across two of the roads that separated
the piece of woods where the hit occurred from a larger forested area and allow
Sylvie to see if she could pick up the scent trail once again. She picked up all kinds of interesting
scents, apparently, but we never found another sign of the deer or any
blood. We returned to the pocket of
woods, made another circle through it in hope the deer may not have left the
woods if mortally wounded but ended up tired and without the deer. After further discussing the hit once more,
it was my opinion that the hunter likely hit too high to get a double lung, and
that the big blotches of blood were not from the deer bleeding out of both
sides but probably standing in the same spot, bleeding out of his nose with his
head lowered until the hunter following the track pushed him out. I thought this deer may still be alive, since
these are amazing and resilient animals.
The hunter had a trail camera in the woods and 4 days later the buck he
shot walked by the camera with the entry wound clearly visible. The entry wound is too high to have hit lung
on the deer’s left side and on the right side the broadhead probably hit one of
the small back lung lobes, not sufficient for a mortal hit. This made me feel much better about the tracking
job Sylvie did. Who knows if an
experienced dog would have been able to follow the track across the hard
surfaces, and it would have ended at a live deer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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weekend came quickly and with it another practice opportunity, this time in a
suburban community shooting over bait.
As for the previous weekend, the agreement was that if one of us would
shoot a deer, we would allow Sylvie to find it for good practice. Little did we know that she would get both an
easy practice and then two real searches.
I was able to shoot a fawn coming to bait and it ran 40 yards and
collapsed (see yellow arrow in picture below showing bait and the dead deer
next to the tree in the background).
After waiting for dark and the potential for another shot, I put Sylvie
on the track. I was not able to locate
the arrow in the dense grass after the pass through, so I was not entirely sure
of the exact hit location. Sylvie was
clearly confused by all the hot deer scent coming and going to bait and she was
eager to investigate it. I allowed
Sylvie to find the arrow and once she had it she picked up the trail and we
were at the dead fawn in no time. It was
interesting to see her investigate the deer with caution – this was, after all,
the first real deer she found. She walked around it investigating the wound and
the leg glands and the muzzle. It looked as if she was not quite sure what to
make of it. At home, the end of a line
was usually some old piece of deer hide, so this was different. But she eagerly consumed the deer treats that
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So far so good – good practice!
Let’s call it a night I thought. But not
so fast. One of my fellow hunters had
shot two deer, neither one of which he was able to locate. So we went to the next
property, just about a mile away. The
hunter had located one of the arrows but not the second. I determined that there was clear sign of gut
on the arrow and the description of the deer behavior after the hit (jumped up
and then slowly walking off) suggested a potential hit of the liver as
well. It was about 2.5 hours after the hunter
shot this deer, so I decided to track the second animal first to give the gut
shot animal more time. The location was
in a small cattail swamp, surrounded by old fields, gardens and lawns. Sylvie
picked up a trail, but the hunter indicated to me that the deer took a
different path, so I called her off after 10 yards. I should have known better,
but I am an apprentice, as is my dog, in learning the skills of collaborating
with each other. So off we went on a
wild ride through brush, thickets, trash and myriad deer trails criss-crossing
the area. I could tell after a while
that Sylvie was not on the track but I allowed her to search for about 20
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I then decided to track the gut shot deer. After allowing Sylvie to sniff the arrow she
slowly followed this deer track through the cattails, over a lawn, back into a
hedgerow, out onto a lawn and then towards two houses. This time I trusted the dog, although I was
surprised about the travel directions.
Knowing that it was only about 3 hours after the gut shut, I constantly
checked into the distance to see if I could locate a deer, potentially still
alive. There was no possibility for me
to return to the location the next morning so this was the best option. Sure
enough after about 200 yards of tracking I saw the eyes of the deer about 60 yards
away right next to the house looking at us.
It had bedded down next to a compost pile. We immediately backed out, praised Sylvie and
left the area. There was no possibility
for a follow-up shot given the deer’s location.
I advised the hunter to pick up the deer in the morning as it would
likely be in the same spot, or only slightly away. This he did and the deer had not moved and it
died right there. Without Sylvie, we
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Then it was back to the first track.
This time I said I trust the dog and Sylvie went onto the same path that
she took the first time. We did not make
it beyond 50 yards after coming out of the cattail swamp. There the button buck had collapsed. A happy hunter and a happy handler – probably
a happy dog as well as there was half a deer heart as reward. An easy practice session was anticipated, and
that she got with the first deer I shot and then 2 real ones, all in the same
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A few days
later I took out one of my students to observe a hunt. I went to one of my favorite places that has
been incredibly productive over the years, but it is also the place where the
brush “eats” the dead deer. I had lost
numerous deer that I thought were perfect hits in the brushy wetlands and I
have spent countless hours with the landowner in the dark, or during the day
trying our luck on grid searches. Often
we were successful, but occasionally we were not. A big motivation to obtain and train
Sylvie. This evening turned out to be
just like so many others but with a much better final outcome. So we got into the tree overlooking bait for
the first outing of the season at this location with Sylvie patiently awaiting
her time in the car. A button buck
approached the bait soon thereafter and a 25 yard shot killed him after a short
40 yard dash. We heard him fall. An hour
later two fawns approached the bait from the same direction and this time my shot
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We continued to wait for another hour in anticipation of deer movement
right at dusk or shortly thereafter.
Soon enough, a very cautious doe approached the bait and circled around
right after dark. With a half moon, I
could easily spot her. My shot found its
mark, we heard ribs breaking, then a very short mad dash, brush breaking twice
indicating a collapsing deer and then silence.
This sounded all perfect. After
waiting 20 minutes we climbed out of the tree and located the first two
arrows. I got Sylvie and put her on the
first deer. She was so excited to be out
of the car and with all the scent around (we had seen a grey fox, a raccoon and
plenty squirrels) that she ventured off track immediately. After I calmed her down and she found the
track, she took a very short time to walk up to the button buck, not paying any
attention to the second deer that was just 5 yards away from the track she
followed. Good practice success and time
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I decided to forgo tracking the 2</span><sup style="text-indent: 0.5in;">nd</sup><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> deer since it was laying
just right there and the track would have been 25 yards.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">It did not seem worthwhile and there was one
more deer to track – an easy practice track I thought given what we had heard.
Little did I know what this turned out to be.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We found the arrow and blood on the grass and goldenrod and Sylvie took
up the track.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">She got into very thick
honeysuckles and walked around some brush trying to get through the thickest
parts but was unable to do so.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We tried
to see what she was trying to get to but other than some trash we could not see
anything in the dark. So I called her out of it (I should have walked her
around more, but that is with hindsight) and allowed her to follow whatever she
thought was right.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I tried putting her
onto the same trail 3 times and she always followed the same path for about 20
yards and then veered off to the left.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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I was getting confused and worried about what went down with the
deer. All indications were that it was a
good hit, maybe a slight bit low, but the crashing indicated that there was a
dead deer very close to where it got shot. But we could not locate the deer after
almost 2 hours of searching and allowing Sylvie to explore close to the hit
locations and way beyond. I finally
called it a night, rather disappointed and questioning myself and the shot
location, my interpretation of the sounds of and after the hit, and Sylvie’s
ability to track this deer. But I had
two deer to process and occasionally such things happen. I thought with the help of a dog this would
be kept to a minimum, but I also recognized that even with a good and
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The next morning, while taking Sylvie on our usual morning walk, I could
not get this deer and the scenario out of my head. I felt I owed it the deer
and myself to go back and check one more time during daylight. I also decided
to allow Sylvie another crack at it after a good night’s sleep, and some early
exercise.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">So off we went.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">When I put her onto the track, she did the
same as every time the night before: 20 yards through tall grass and goldenrod,
then veering to the left and then clearly getting lost in other scents. </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I decided to just break through the dense
brush, following deer trails, following the sounds of a group of crows calling
from their perch 100 yards away, basically doing nearly a grid search with my
dog. </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Nothing materialized, other than
stumbling through the brush and getting scratched by multiflora rose.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I made the decision to allow her one last
time to follow the trail after having burned off some of the energy over the
past hour, and then I would put her into the car and try a real grid search one
last time before giving up. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">And this time, for reasons I am not able to explain, it went quite
different.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We came onto the track she
had followed and for some reason she picked up the scent.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">She slowed to nearly a crawl and instead of
veering off to the left after getting out of the tall grass, she stayed
straight and crawled under a honeysuckle bush overgrown itself by vines.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I could barely see her, but she was
investigating something, which turned out to be the dead doe. I have
illustrated the path the deer and Sylvie took with the yellow arrows in the 3
pictures below. The total length of path the deer ran with a perfect heart shot
was 30 yards, if that far.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The deer had
crashed into the brush and lodged itself on its belly so no white was visible.
Even as I was standing a few feet away from the deer, I could not see it.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I saw something white, that the sun lit up,
which turned out to be white on a hind leg. I only investigated this further
because Sylvie was under the bush, quiet, not pulling any longer, clearly
having found something.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I had to get
onto my belly and crawl into the brush to finally convince myself that she had
in fact located the dead doe.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I took a
few extra pictures to show how difficult and camouflaged the entire situation
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under honeysuckle bush, barely visible, if at all. Yellow arrow indicates sunlight hitting hind
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With the
help of Sylvie, and with being persistent, I was able to locate this dead
deer. After a perfect shot, after a mad
dash of only 30 yards, this deer eluded 2 people and a dog for many hours. It
is not always the distance that the deer are able to travel or the lack of
blood. I would have never been able to
see the deer – in a few days we would have smelled it. We stood a few feet away from it and walked
by it many times. But this time the
brush did not “eat” the deer; it went to the venison donation program feeding
the hungry as did the two fawns from the night before. It is satisfying to end this search on such a
high note. It confirms to me the value
of having a tracking dog – even if she still gets confused by all the scents at
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On Nov. 8<sup>th</sup>,
Thor and I took a track in Geneseo. The
hunter, Josh, hit the buck about 4 pm the previous day. While interviewing Josh about the hit, not
long after he shot it, he said that the buck was broadside when he hit it and
the arrow passed thru near the center of the deer. Surprisingly, the buck bedded within 20 yards
of the hit, then got up shortly after and bedded 2 more times in the next 50
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Josh waited awhile and then inspected the hit site and arrow along with
a few yards of the early trail. He saw a
reasonable blood trail and then backed out and called Deer Search. The quick, frequent bedding, signaled a liver hit, but then Josh described the arrow as having heavy intestinal matter on it. With a broadside shot it’s hard to hit both liver and intestine. I told Josh that
the options were to go after it late that evening, like 11 pm (assuming it was liver), or to wait to later in the morning assuming it was intestine only. It was a tough decision. A liver-hit deer could be dead in less than an hour
(typically 7 hrs covers 95% of liver hits), but an intestine-hit deer can go for over
24 hrs. We had to worry that it might
spoil if it died early or we might jump it if we go too early. We decided that we’d wait till late morning
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We started at about
11 am, 19 hrs after the hit. I inspected
Josh’s arrow and confirmed it was covered with intestinal matter and a little
blood. We started the track and quickly
got through the first 100 yards where blood sign was still visible along the
way. Soon we came out to a standing
cornfield, where Thor spent about 10 minutes circling around in about 20 rows
of corn. I was happy to find 1 spec of
blood on a corn stalk, while he was circling.
Finally, Thor came out of the corn and headed off pretty hard across a
clover field for about 125 yards, until he entered the woods that surrounded a 1
acre pond. Soon, he was walking through
the shallow water at the corner of the pond.
He came out of the pond and climbed up a short bank. There I found a single drop of blood. Thor then took a path through the brush along
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I
scanned the pond hoping to see a floating deer. Finally, he walked off the bank
and started swimming into the pond. I
let him go out a few yards, and then pulled him back to shore. He jumped up the bank and then I spotted a
bloody leaf on the shore. I let the
leash go and told Josh to grab it as I climbed through the heavy brush. He grabbed the leash but had a hard time
holding Thor back as he dug in and pulled hard into the brush. A few seconds later the reason was
obvious. The dead buck was lying about
40 yards from the pond. So far the track wasn’t that interesting, but the deer and
the hit changed that. Looking at the
8 pointer, it was obvious that the deer had passed just a short time before we
arrived. There was no rigor, and the
internal organs were freshly warm. The other observation was that the lower half
of the deer was soaking wet and his legs were brown with pond muck. It had obviously been laying in the
pond. The autopsy revealed the biggest
surprise, the 3 blade broad head clearly passed thru the liver, before exiting
out the intestines. This buck, with a
solid liver hit, likely lived for 17 or 18 hours! Not sure if laying in the pond had any
influence, but most liver hit deer are dead at 6 or 7 hours. I did have one buck years ago, that we jumped
after 20 hrs with a liver hit. The
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">The first edition of <i>Tracking Dogs for Finding Wounded Deer</i> was released in 2004, and was followed by the 2nd edition in 2006. The book had been selling well but in the last few years it became clear that we needed to update it. A new version was printed in October 2016. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">This "new" 2nd edition has additional 7 chapters, new pictures and appendices, and an index. The information has been updated throughout the book. While the 2006 book had 360 pages, the new version has 424. Its cover is green. The book can be purchased on our website (<a href="http://www.born-to-track.com/book/order-info.htm" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>) for $39.95 plus $4.00 for shipment within the United States.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Just today we received feedback from </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Marianne Jacobs who lives in </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Luxembourg, and has a lot of experience in hunting and blood tracking. When John read it, I could see some tears of happiness in his eyes. Thank you Marianne!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">I wanted to give my
feedback on the book “Tracking dogs for finding wounded deer”!<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">First of all: I am
amazed and this book should be on every trackers book shelf! </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">It is very clearly
structured and written in a great English. The chapters and words are well
chosen, and the sentences are easy to understand (important for me as a
non-native speaker). I never had to read a sentence twice to get the meaning of
it! Reading the book was a real pleasure for me.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Concerning the content:
It covers all that I could imagine: blood-tracking in general, breeds,
puppy-choosing, training for all age stages, equipment, different game, tracks,
problems, tests and so on! And what I loved the most about the book were the
small summaries at the end of every chapter!<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">The information given in this book is priceless! I would recommend this book to
every tracker; to the ones who gets started and also to the experienced ones.
There is plenty of information for everyone, no matter if they where
they track in the world.<br />
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I have read many (especially German and French) books about
blood-tracking, but this is clearly my favorite now. I truly have the
impression that the author wants me to learn (a lot) from his book. I always
missed this feeling with the European books: they gave some information, but
the content was more about the authors’ dogs and his personal
successes and tracks. And they often only praised certain breeds, and
ignored others completely. I couldn’t get that much information from these
books, especially practical information about training and trouble-shooting
were often missing. But not in this book!! While reading, I could feel how the
author put his soul and all his knowledge into it. </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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I will absolutely recommend this book to our puppy buyers, fellow trackers and hunters,
they can learn a lot from it. I learned so much and I already know that I will
often look something up in this book, because this is definitely NOT a book
that you only read once and then put away.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks a lot for writing
this wonderful and educational book!</span></i></span></div>
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The track we started this morning at 9:00 has
a long backstory. The Hunter, Charlie,
had hit a big buck this past Saturday morning (11/5) at 9:30. He thought his arrow had entered low in the
ribs, about 6 inches back of the front leg on the right side. The white hair at the hit site indicated that
the exit was near the bottom of the deer. Being pretty new to bowhunting, he
waited about 1.5 hours to begin tracking.
He and his hunting friend tracked the deer about 300 yards, when they
jumped it. They then backed out for
about an hour and continued tracking a dwindling blood trail. After several hundred more yards, they jumped
it again. Finally, after about 3 hours
of tracking, they jumped it a 3<sup>rd</sup> time and then tracked it a few
hundred more yards to the last blood sign at the edge of a golf course, on a
cart path. At this point they’d tracked
about ¾ of a mile. After the cart path,
the buck headed across a fairway and then along the woods on the other
side. Charlie was able to track the buck’s
hoof prints in the soft dirt. About 100 yards
past the cart path, they lost all signs of the buck. From that point on, Charlie and his hunting
friend grid searched the woods on that side of the fairway for another hour to
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Two days
later, on Monday 11/7 at 8:30 am, Charlie called into Deer Search asking for
help. The rut in our area, as well as cross
bow hunting began this weekend. As a
result, we had 30 to 40 calls waiting in our system. We don’t have the manpower to handle all
those calls, so on Monday evening I began deleting calls older than 36 hours
and then calling those hunters back to say sorry and to discuss their
hits. Charlie hunts in an area far from
most of our trackers and it was now 59 hours after the hit, so I deleted his
call and then called him. After hearing
the story of his hit and track (jumping the buck 3x) it certainly sounded like
a liver hit. It went a long way between
beds, but it was being pushed. I knew
the deer was dead, and Charlie made it clear how much he wanted to recover it,
his best buck to date. I thought that a
body search, to smell the dead deer might have a chance of working – but they
usually don’t! I told Charlie, that I
might be in his area on Tuesday and that I might want to give it a try. Well, Tuesday didn’t work out, but I did
catch a call for Wednesday that would be nearby. Charlie and I traded a bunch of text messages
Tuesday night, and he even emailed me a Google Maps photo of the area with his
deer track marked on it. At that point I didn’t realize that the track
so far, was ¾ mile long. The photo
showed that the area was very large with diverse vegetation. I agreed to meet up with him on Wednesday
morning at 9 am – 4 days after the hit.
From Saturday thru Tuesday it had been sunny, warm (65deg) and breezy,
but Tuesday evening and Wednesday AM the forecast was for rain. Sure enough it started raining about 9 pm
Tuesday evening. At that time, the
thought hit me that with this moisture, Thor might actually be able to follow
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morning, as I made the 60-mile drive to Hume, Allegany County, the rain was
pretty heavy, but luckily just about stopped as I met up with Charlie. After doing our paper work, Charlie showed me
his arrow & Rage 2 blade broad head.
The arrow and fletching showed not much blood, and the first 10 inches
had a coating of white fat / suet on it.
Likely from passing thru the fat on the bottom of the chest. I decided
we should start the track at the hit site in the hope that Thor could actually
pick up and carry the track beyond where the hunters had lost it. I started Thor where we thought the hit
occurred and headed off in the direction the buck went. I never saw any blood, but Charlie convinced
me that Thor seemed to be going the right way.
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To make a long story shorter, for about the
next hour, we followed Thor down what seemed to be the right track through the
mixed hardwoods. On 3 or 4 occasions
along the way, Thor got into a circling pattern 30 or 40 yards in diameter,
obviously trying to figure out which direction the buck went after it stopped and
circled. Once we got to within about 200
yards of the golf course, Thor got stuck in a circling pattern for about 15
minutes. He was working hard, but couldn’t get out of it. It could have been
the Hunters bloody boots that complicated that area. The 3<sup>rd</sup> bed was ahead in the thick
brush between us and the golf course. We
were now about an hour into the track and still hadn’t gotten to where the hunters
had lost the track. At that point, I
asked Charlie to take us to the last sign of blood at the edge of the golf
course, 200 yards ahead. Soon we were at
the cart path where the buck came out of the woods. Still in the path, was a
dime sized blood clot. The 1<sup>st</sup>
blood I’d seen so far. Thor caught the
scent again and headed off hard across the fairway towards another
woodlot. A short time later, Charlie confirmed that
Thor was on the path of hoof prints in the fairway that they had followed 4
days earlier. 75 yards further along the
edge of the fairway and we were now at the point where Charlie lost the trail
for good. At that point, Charlie and his
friend went on to search the woods on that side of the fairway, and the woods
beyond. Now I was hoping / praying that
Thor would take us in a totally new direction.
Soon after, he was in the middle of the fairway, heading back across
towards the cart path and woods beyond. Yes!
Charlie, had never searched in this area.
It was totally clean and Thor was heading hard into it. That buck should
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Well, we continued into the new section of woods for another 200 yards
with Thor seemingly, still on the trail – I sure thought so. Then, just as I was beginning to doubt him
(I shouldn’t do that!) I spotted what I thought was a blood spot on a wet
leaf. I stopped and dabbed it with a
white paper towel – BLOOD! The last
blood sign I’d see on this entire track.
A short time later, Thor was in his 4<sup>th</sup> or 5<sup>th</sup>
area of circling. I stood by for 5 minutes
trying to be patient – it’s hard!
Finally, he was off on another 200 yard line thru the woods. I expected to see the dead Buck ahead of us
at any moment. We’d been in this woods
for at least 400 yards, the buck should have bedded by now. After another 100 yards we were at the
corner of the woods and a clover field.
Here, Thor spent at least 10 minutes circling a 30-yard diameter area in
the woods. This is torture! Multiple times, he would seem to head off
on a line out of the area, only to come circling back! In our early tracking days, I couldn’t take
it, and would pull him off in a direction I wanted to go. Now, I’ve learned that he almost always
figures it out, if I give him the time he needs. Finally, Thor headed into the
clover field and then took a good straight line, for about 100 yards, across it
to the woods beyond. He quickly got
thru the woods and then we headed into a large thick brushy basin. We were now more than a half mile beyond the
last bed, with no sign of the deer. I
began to have my doubts, but Thor was still determined as we headed down the
narrow deer trails in the dense brush.
After a 200-yard arch thru the brush, Thor’s nose was suddenly up,
scenting hard. 10 yards later I caught a
whiff and a few yards later I saw half a rack poking out of the weeds ahead –
we had him!!! The buck was a big 6Pt,
and the shot was just about where Charlie thought. The broad head looked to hit the bottom of
the liver. Unfortunately, after 4 days,
only the rack was salvageable. But that,
and the track it took to find him, will provide memories of this Buck well into
the future… Photo below shows Charlie
and his Buck. Map shows total track
route. Red portion is where Charlie
tracked the Buck, Thor tracked the
entire route. I learn more and am amazed
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thor von Moosbach-Zuzelek, a brother to our Tuesday and Darren Doran's Theo, has had a great tracking season so far. He helped hunters to recover their deer that otherwise would go to waste or feed coyotes. This is what happened today, in Bob Yax's words:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After breaking my streak of Birthday recoveries yesterday, I
was ready for some success today. Boy, did we get it! 3 recoveries on 3 tracks
that were all hit yesterday and sat overnight in the heavy rains. Thor was
awesome today... relentless on every track.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Track 1 was in Romulus. I started it yesterday afternoon
thinking it was a liver hit. We then postponed it till today when I saw only intestine
matter on the arrow. The arrows level / broadside path could have not
have hit liver and intestine so we needed to wait overnight. Yesterday there
was no blood found on the 1st 20 yds of the trail. That's as far as the hunter
tracked it. This morning just as the rain was ending we took up the trail - 0
blood was seen, but Thor took off hard down the trail. To our surprise, we
found the buck dead 100 yds from the stand. Autopsy showed arrow deflected (off
a branch) down thru the back strap, lung, liver, stomach and came out the
intestines. The 9pt was likely dead after 5 or 6 hours. We found it at the 24hr
mark and it was still good, likely due to the heavy cool rain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the big buck, but he had a pass thru with only blood on the arrow (no guts).
Yesterday, he and his wife tracked it for hours over a mile till the blood
petered out. We started the track 29 hrs after the hit. The arrow look almost
clean to me, maybe from skidding thru very wet clover? Over the next 30 min we
covered the mile long trail with 0 visible blood again. We did go right past 3
markers the hunter left along the buck’s path. That is always reassuring!
Finally we hit a railroad track where they had stopped tracking yesterday. The
thick brush on the other side was a promising place for the buck to bed. Thor headed down a trail into the brush, then came out into
a clearing in the swampy woods. About 50 yds later his head was up scenting the
air hard - was the buck nearby? - yes! It was laying in the open wood 40 yds
ahead. It looked dead, but it was laying straight up on its belly with its chin
on the ground and antlers up? Thor was barking like crazy! I had the hunter
hold Thor's leash as I slowly approached the buck. Soon I was 15ft from it and
it was still motionless. Just when I was sure it was dead, it blinked and took
off running. I got my 20ga up and shot when it was going away at 30 yds. It
tumbled into one of the big puddles then ended up lying head up in the woods 40
yds ahead. My hit to the back knee put it down, but it was still trying to get
up. Too long story short - 2 more shots finished it! (this included an
"ammo run" to get a 3rd slug!) It was a Big 10pt. The Hunters shot
passed thru the top of the lungs just under the shoulder blades. PS, it was a 4
blade Muzzy. This was the 1st marginal lung shot we've ever recovered, and it
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the buck broadside and far back. He saw stomach contents on a tree. The arrow
showed me only intestine contents, but I did find stomach matter on the tree.
Yesterday the hunter tracked it (pushed it!) about 175 yds with a little blood,
he then backed out. We started on the track 23 hrs after the hit, again no
blood was visible (dam rain!). Thor again got hot on the trail and was soon
passing the hunters backpack that he left where he backed out. About 300 yds
later, Thor again had his nose high in the air looking for the Buck. We then
saw it dead, 50 yds ahead. The 8pt was very fresh, no rigor. It had only been
dead a few hours. The entrance wound was halfway back and about 6 inches from
the bottom of the deer. It hit Stomach and exited out the intestines. A
day that started with driving in the pouring rain, turned into our best
tracking day ever. Tracking conditions were great, damp and cool, and Thor was
really on his game. The heavy rain that washed away all blood sign probably
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">My neighbor shot this doe on his land at approximately 5:45 pm
Halloween evening. He said he heard the arrow hit but was unable to locate it
or any blood at the shot site. A few hours later Winnie, myself, the
hunter and two friends took to the field. We started tracking at 9:15 pm.
It was difficult to locate the first blood as there was none at the hit site
that we could see. We tracked for quite a distance. Some heavy blood
fading to some light blood and back to heavy. After several hundred yards
and it was apparent that the deer was still alive as we were finding fresh
blood that was not dried like at the beginning of the trail. We never
found a single bed. We pushed the deer to make her bleed and we ended up
through the large block of timber where the deer crossed the road. We
located a few drops on the road and Winnie was anxious to push on. Shortly
after crossing the road Winnie came upon her first real deer. The deer
was dead and Winnie realized what she has been training to do. She went
right over and started licking the blood and eventually she latched right on
and was biting the deer with all she had. She showed no possessiveness as last
night I think Winnie realized that we are working as a team. All of
the other people and the lights in the woods were a distraction at times as
this was only her second time in the woods at night, once on an artificial line
and then this actual call. I would reassure her with a calm tone that she needs
“find the deer” and she was back to tracking. We recovered the deer at 11:28
pm. The deer was shot quartering away hitting the gut, liver and a single lung.
There was an entrance and exit wound, however, the arrow was still in the deer.
She had not been dead long as there were still bubbles coming out of the exit
hole near the lungs. The track totaled just about a mile in distance. The
Halloween deer that Winnie found will be one I will never forget. Winnie did get on
Halloween a little treat of her own, a few slices of fresh deer heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Winnie on the last blood found and then she was back on track. She persevered
and did great. I was very proud of her as you know she is not even 4 months old
yet! I am on cloud nine right now and I have the itch to get back out there and
let the sniff hound go find another! Thanks for being a part of all of
this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A hunter called about a deer he hit on Friday morning, October 21, about
7:30 am. At the hit the deer walked off about 60 yards and lay down. The hunter
thought that the deer was going to die right there. After about 20 minutes the
deer got up and slowly walked away. The hunter stayed in the stand for a while, then climbed down and snuck out. He came back around noon to check the arrow and
look for the deer. During this time it had rained heavily and was threatening
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When the hunter checked his arrow he smelled gut on it and saw
white hairs on the ground. Despite the rain, there was a substantial amount of blood in the bed. He began to
track the deer and eventually lost the blood alongside the creek. The hunter
looked me up on the <a href="http://www.ubnj.org/deer-tracking-contacts" target="_blank">UBNJ web site</a> and called me. It turns out that the hunter
was a new resident to the town I work for and was hunting right out of his back
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At this point I would
like to say that this swamp buck was a mature deer over 3 ½ years old. I have
seen this behavior in this age class of a buck many times. At the hit the deer
doesn’t run or panic. They don’t elevate their blood pressure by running, and by
bedding quickly they slow their blood loss. With the onset of the rut, this
type of buck with this type of hit can be very hard to kill and recover.</div>
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I made arrangements to meet the hunter after work and I was at his
house by 4 p.m., 8½ hours after the shot. We went to the hit site and I
got Theo ready. The arrow had a slight gut smell and the white hair was there
just as the hunter had said. I started Theo and he took the track and ended up in the wound bed. I could see good blood indicating it was a liver hit. Theo tracked to
the creek to where the hunter had quit and began searching. He kept going up
and down the bank and then just jumped in and swam to the other side. The creek
was about 15 feet wide and I just kept feeding out my lead. Theo got to the
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It looked like we were going to get wet. The creek
was mid-thigh deep and a little chilly but had a pretty good bottom. We got
across quickly and tracked along the top of the creek to an ox bow. Theo
started down towards the creek again and stopped on a log that was in the
water. He was stretching out and sniffing but hadn’t committed to taking the
plunge. The creek was deep here but not wide and if we went in we were going to
have to swim.</div>
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Theo came back up to the top and began searching the bank.
All of a sudden he took a line right over our track in. The deer had back
tracked. He bedded high on the creek bend with the deep water at his back
looking over his back trail where he crossed the creek the first time. It’s
quite possible that the deer saw or heard the hunter from this vantage point
looking for him earlier in the day.</div>
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Theo then tracked out of the flood plain and up to higher
ground. I hadn’t seen any blood since the bed at the creek and we were heading
right for a housing development in the neighboring municipality. Theo was
tracking right behind the backyards of the houses and I was praying that the
deer stayed in the woods. All of a sudden Theo’s tempo picked up and the hunter said
he saw a deer get up and go to the right. Theo was really excited and tracking
left towards the road. I just held back on the lead and let him settle a bit. It was obvious that there was more than one deer
here and they left in different directions. Theo took a line that was straighter, and the hunter said that the deer went right. I asked him to stand by and wait. When I saw a small drop of fresh blood 30 yards later I knew he had the
right deer. I went about another 30 yards, found another spot of blood and called
up the hunter. Theo was tracking towards a mowed retention basin behind the
houses and he was pulling hard. I planned to track up
to the edge and look across and check for the deer. The basin was about 125 yards wide and there was no dead deer in it. I pulled Theo back and it was time to
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I was afraid to push the deer because
of the houses. I’ve lost big deer to the developments before and did not want
it to happen now. I laid out our options. We could continue and
risk losing him in the development, we could come back around midnight and re-start, or we could take our chances with the rain and start in the morning. I reassured hunter that Theo could track after a rain and it wouldn’t be a problem, but I
didn’t realize how much we were going to get.</div>
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We decided to resume tracking in the morning. It had poured
over night and was raining hard in the morning. I sent a text to the hunter to make sure
that were still on and he said yes. I was a little apprehensive about tracking
to the deer but felt confident that if it stayed in the woods we could find
him. I picked up the hunter and we started at the first creek crossing. I swear
when Theo saw the hunter he knew we were going to finish what
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I brought Hip Boots for the crossing and just made it. Theo swam
across and was dragging he short lead following the exact same track to where we
stopped yesterday. I hooked up Theo about 50 yards from the edge of the basin
and started. He ran down yesterday’s line and into the basin and began
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At the other side he began checking runs. I was really
hoping to find the deer just inside the edge but it didn’t happen. We had the
wind in our face,a and I was sweeping Theo in a
search mode from the houses to our side of the creek in an effort to pick up
the trail of the deer or air scent a body. Theo was working nicely through the thick green briars and
brush and we went about another 500 yards sweeping through the bottom without
any luck. Now the plan was to work the creek back and have
Theo check the runs leading up to a crossing. We had gotten about 150 yards from the retention basin when Theo started sniffing the briars while standing
up on his hind legs. When he does this it usually means he’s confirming the
scent of our deer or has caught a piece of familiar scent. Theo started to take
this run towards the creek and worked down to the bank and was looking across
the water. I happened to look downstream and there was the deer floating in the
middle of the creek stuck against a fallen tree. As soon as I saw him I shouted
out my favorite saying “I gottem”. The hunter came running over and because of
the briars and the creek bank he couldn’t see him. He said “where, where “. I
said "he’s in the creek, you got him".</div>
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By now Theo had seen him and was swimming over to him. He
climbed up on the deer and began to pull out his hair. I waded out and dragged the
deer back to the bank. The deer died about 100 yards behind the hunter's stand
and looked like it was headed back to where it had come from. We had a heck of
a celebration, and I was genuinely happy for this hunter. He was a good guy and
I’m glad we could find his deer. The deer was hit low in the liver and because
of the way it acted after the hit, it lived a long time.</div>
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This kind of track makes believers out of hunters and
legends out of tracking dogs. This may be my last track this season and if so
it was a great one. Theo is still learning and getting better every time we
track. We have developed into a team that knows what to do to get the job done.
I love working this dog and finding deer with him.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-29528602277603834772016-10-23T21:52:00.003-04:002016-11-03T11:46:52.034-04:00Wired To Hunt podcast with John Jeanneney on how to track and recover wounded deer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Few days ago <a href="http://wiredtohunt.com/" target="_blank">Wired To Hunt</a> posted a podcast with John Jeanneney on the topic of deer tracking and recovery. The podcast can be accessed <a href="https://goo.gl/LXjxT3" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The whole podcast is about 90 minutes, and the first 30 minutes or so are on other topics. John's part starts around the 60-minute mark and lasts an hour. We hope you enjoy it.<br />
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This is the first year when John is not tracking. He turned 81 in April! He still stays very much engaged, dispatching hunters' calls to local handlers and advising hunters on the phone and over email.<br />
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<i>Few days after the podcast had been aired we received this email from a hunter:</i><br />
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<i>I was fortunate enough to have been able to listen to Wired
to Hunt Podcast #124 with John’s infinite wisdom filling the hour. I
wanted to express my thanks for opening my eyes to the “let it lay overnight”
theory. I let a buck I hit in the shoulder lay overnight when I knew he
was close by last year. To keep a long story short, I ultimately saw him
dragging his front leg (shattered at the shoulder) by a camera then out of my
life that next morning. I believe I would have continued pushing him had
I learned this information earlier, and definitely would have done nothing but
increase my odds of harvesting the animal. I know he died in a very thick,
impassible portion of my property. I never recovered the animal, and
think about it very often. With this new found knowledge I gained from a
short listen to John, I firmly believe I will in the future have a much better
chance of finding a deer in various situations, as well as be much more
inclined to contact someone with a tracking dog to assist me in the harvesting
of the animal.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>I know that was a lot of rambling, but I wanted to say
THANKS!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was with great anxiety that I anticipated the start of
the tracking season this year. My 9 year
old veteran dog, Eibe, had continued to partially lose her sense of smell
since last year and I knew she would only be able to handle a very limited number of calls this year; perhaps even fewer than last year. On top of that my two 16-month-old young
dogs, Hazel and Hunter, who I have been training for the last 14 months were
struggling to come out of a very difficult adolescent period after demonstrating
unbelievably great work, basically perfect, up to about 7 months of age. Hazel had been coming along especially well
the last month of training but I still had my reservations as to how much I
should put her in the field this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I train a dog I always look at the long
term results, and I don’t like to put a dog into the field to soon on an unknown
natural line until I can fully trust the dog.
On an unknown natural line, a young dog can learn a lot of very bad
habits if you are not careful. The most
damaging bad habit being that the dog
can learn that it is enjoyable to track any deer, not just the wounded deer
that they started on. Hazel’s last three training lines before the start of our season showed me enough progress that I
planned to definitely put her in the field this year but I planned to be very
careful in track selection. My strategy
was to screen calls carefully for her and only take tracks likely not to be too
long and the ones that have a dead deer at the end.
The last thing I really wanted was for her to jump and chase a wounded
one still alive. She was already gamey
enough. She certainly did not need that
type of stimulation. I also planned to
curtail any track we might be on if I did not have some confirming sign or
circumstance where I could be absolutely sure we were still on the correct
deer. Without confirmation, I planned to
quit any track where I had not have confirmation of some sort for more than 200
yards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well luck was certainly with us for our first call of the
season this year. When the phone finally
rang last night I got a call that sounded close to perfect. An hour after the hit the hunter had started
tracking and tracked 200 yards to a puddle where the deer stood with drips of
blood. My
interview of the hunter revealed a likely liver hit so the deer had a very good
chance of not being very far from the puddle and almost for sure dead. The hunter got to the puddle 2 hours after
the hit and judging from the described light blood trail
coming to the spot where the deer stood, the deer had stood there a long time
to create the puddle. The hunter on my
advice decided not to continue tracking and give the deer more time to
die. I arranged to meet the hunter at
first light and put my rookie dog Hazel on the deer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the hit site in the morning, Hazel’s natural instincts
really kicked in. There was only a small
speck of blood at the hit site, which she basically ignored and clearly locked right
in on the hoof/body scent of the wounded animal. She easily tracked the 200 yards to the
hunter’s point of loss in 5 minutes. Her adolescent lackadaisical attitude that she still showed in some of her recent
training was nowhere to be seen. It was
all business. At the point of loss at
the puddle where the hunter and 2 helpers had done some walking back and
forth she had some trouble. In her training she had never encountered
that type of thing before. She seemed to
interpret it like it was a star, which we had trained for and after maybe a 5 minute long check in the area of the
puddle she found her way out. For a
moment during the check I thought she
was going to lose concentration and drift off onto junk, something I still saw
but less and less in training. But with
a very light call of her name by me standing near the point of loss, she
refocused and found her way out. She got
back on the line, pointed out a spot of blood to me maybe 30 yards past the
point of loss, and found the deer maybe 20 yards past that. It was a perfect situation: Right after
correcting herself back onto the line a big reward; the dead deer for her to
tear into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This certainly was not a difficult track. Even my Eibe with her debilitated nose could
have found this deer only 12 hours after the shot. Heck, the hunter would have
found without the dog, but it was a perfect track to further develop my
dog. And as you can see from the photo, the
deer sure made for a great photo for my dog’s first find of what I hope is a
long career.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This came from Andy Bensing and his organization <a href="http://www.deerrecoverypa.org/" target="_blank">Deer Recovery of Pennsylvania:</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The effort to legalize
Leashed Tracking Dogs for recovering wounded deer in PA has been ongoing for 17
years and right now we are the closest we have ever been and almost
there. The PA Game Commission, PFSC, USP, UBP, QDMA ,NRA and 97% of PA
hunters as of the last survey taken support the legalization of Leashed
Tracking Dogs. HB1722 which will legalize the use of Leashed Tracking
Dogs has passed the House and is awaiting a final vote on the Senate floor. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: inherit;">The problem is that HB1722 has been languishing on the Senate Calendar for the
last month and has not been brought up for the final vote. There are 2
weeks left in Harrisburg before the Senate goes on Summer Recess. If
HB1722 doesn’t come up for vote by the end of June, PA hunters will be going
another hunting season this fall without access to Leashed Tracking Dogs.</span><br />
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: inherit;">The Leashed Tracking Dog movement needs every hunter’s help right now. </span><br />
<span style="color: #505050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no time to waste. To help make this finally happen, here is what
you need to do.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #505050; font-family: inherit;">Send an email or letter to Senator Jake Corman right away. Tell him you
support HB1722, the Leashed Tracking Dog bill, and ask him to bring it up
for a final vote on the Senate floor. If you are really feeling
motivated, in addition to sending an email, call his office and let his office
know you would like him to bring HB1722 up for vote. Senator Corman is
the Leader in the Senate and he is in charge of deciding which bills get a
chance to be voted on. Here is the contact info for Senator Corman: </span><span style="color: #505050;"><a href="http://www.senatorcorman.com/contact/">http://www.senatorcorman.com/contact/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-40408841001690440592016-05-22T21:13:00.000-04:002016-05-22T21:13:13.906-04:00Beginnings of the United Blood Trackers<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Compiled by Jolanta Jeanneney</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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The need for a national organization of blood trackers
became evident in March 2005 when Henry Holt ran into problems regarding using
tracking dogs on public land in Illinois. In his email circulated within
borntotrack group (for owners of dogs bred by John and Jolanta Jeanneney),
hosted by smartgroups, he wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Last season here in Illinois there was an emergency
administrative rule issued prohibiting tracking on public land. Just before the
season opened, Larry Gohlke, Cheri Faust, Al Diehl and I all attended a meeting
in Springfield with Tim Hickman, the DNR head of public lands, Jack Price the
DNR attorney in charge of wildlife and administrative rules, and Mike Kennedy a
Captain in Law Enforcement (and also a Drahthaar trainer). It looked as though
everything was on track until I saw a new rule published on the DNR website. <o:p></o:p></div>
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1) Tracking on public land has to be conducted outside of
legal shooting hours which are 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before
sunrise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2) Dogs must be certified as deer tracking dogs by a
national dog tracking organization.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the time there was no national organization able to
provide this kind of certification. After many emails and lively discussion,
several members of borntotrack yahoo group decided to go ahead and form the organization.
Ken Parker, an owner of Bavarian Mountain Hounds, was invited as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An organizational meeting was held July 21-22, 2005 at the home
of John and Jolanta Jeanneney in Berne, NY.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top row from left: John Jeanneney, Henry Holt, Larry Golhke; bottom row: Andy Bensing, Cheri Faust and Ken Parker. Jolanta Jeanneney was behind camera.</td></tr>
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Present were John Jeanneney, Jolanta Jeanneney, Henry Holt,
Ken Parker, Andy Bensing, Cheri Faust, Larry Gohlke, Tim Nichols (Friday).</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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We discussed: Bylaws,
Deer Search, Inc., Testing, Judges, Benefits of Membership, Membership
Application and Dues.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The following were
selected to serve on the Board of Directors:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Larry Gohlke (2006) – appointed Director of Testing<o:p></o:p></div>
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John Jeanneney (2006) – appointed Director of Education<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cheri Faust (2007) – elected as Secretary<o:p></o:p></div>
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Henry Holt (2007) – appointed as Director of Membership
and elected as Vice President<o:p></o:p></div>
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Susanne Hamilton (2007)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ken Parker (2008) – elected as Treasurer<o:p></o:p></div>
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Andy Bensing (2008) – elected as President<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jolanta Jeanneney (2008) – appointed as Director of
Publicity<o:p></o:p></div>
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Initial UBT-approved judges were:<o:p></o:p></div>
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• Larry
Gohlke<o:p></o:p></div>
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• John
Jeanneney<o:p></o:p></div>
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• Jolanta
Jeanneney<o:p></o:p></div>
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• Henry
Holt<o:p></o:p></div>
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• Andy
Bensing<o:p></o:p></div>
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A Board of Directors meeting was held September 23, 2005 at
the Black Horse in Denver, PA, and on September 25, 2005 at
D-Bar-W Equestrian Center in Reinholds, PA. Present were: Andy Bensing (President/Director-2008), Cheri
Faust (Secretary/Director-2007), John Jeanneney (Director of Education-2006),
Jolanta Jeanneney (Director of Publicity-2008) and Larry Gohlke (Director of
Testing-2006)</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Secretary received a letter from Henry Holt, who resigned
as an Officer and Director. Dave Johnson
was elected for the Board of Directors to serve as Director of Publicity. John Jeanneney was selected to fill the
vacancy of Vice President. Jolanta
Jeanneney was appointed as Director of Membership. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2005 Bylaws were drafted, finalized and incorporation was
filed with the State of Illinois. A
website (<a href="http://www.unitedbloodtrackers.org/">www.unitedbloodtrackers.org</a>) was established. The Board of Directors has exchanged over
1,600 messages via the email group list, in addition to private emails,
telephone communications and discussions at other events for organizational
purposes. Even though the organization was started mainly by handlers of
tracking dachshunds, it has never discriminated against other breeds. From the
beginning handlers of all kind of tracking dogs have been accepted, regardless
whether their tracking dogs were purebred or not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next meeting of the Board of Directors was held on June
12, 2006 at Neal and Debbie Meyer’s, Quincy, Illinois, the site of Trackfest
2006. Even though this event was not officially affiliated with the United
Blood Trackers, it was organized by the core of the UBT and everybody present
was encouraged to join the organization. The report from this events is at <a href="http://www.born-to-track.com/trackfest.html">http://www.born-to-track.com/trackfest.html</a>. Neal Meyer’s dachshund Chloe was the first
dog certified by the UBT. This was a press release describing it:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>First Dog Certified
To Track Wounded Deer On State Lands</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><br /></b></div>
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Chloe, a wirehaired dachshund owned by outfitter Neal Meyer,
was the first dog tested and approved to track wounded deer on state-owned
lands in Illinois. The bill passed in 2004 legalized the use of leashed
tracking dogs. The associated regulations require that any dog tracking on
Illinois state lands must pass a test demonstrating basic ability and training.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chloe’s blood tracking test was administered by United Blood
Trackers (www.unitedbloodtrackers.org), a national organization, on June 11,
2006. The dog was required to track a blood line with two sharp turns for a
quarter of a mile to part of a deer that was placed at the end of the line. The
small amount of blood used for the simulated trail, combined with the heavy
ground cover, would have made the line very difficult or impossible for a
hunter to track by eye.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dachshund Chloe has little in common with the beloved wiener
dogs of cartoonists. She is bred from German hunting stock, has longer legs and
a harsh, wirey double coat. Chloe weighs only 20 pounds, but in her own mind
she is a “big dog”, big enough to track those huge Illinois bucks, even if they
are still alive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-76745705783587304702016-04-16T21:59:00.000-04:002016-04-16T21:59:06.415-04:00Theo's advanced blood tracking training<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>by Darren Doran</b></div>
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This April Theo turned four years old and is developing into
a solid tracking dog. We had somewhat of a disappointing tracking season last
year as the call volume just wasn’t there. I really only got a few calls that I
would consider difficult enough to test Theo’s current tracking ability. With
that in mind this spring I decided I would really push Theo hard to see where
he really is in his development.</div>
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My first line was a 800 yd, 24 hour old tracking shoe line
with about 1 oz of blood used. He ran this in about twenty minutes and it was
obvious that this was too easy.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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My next line was a
880 yd, 40 hour old tracking shoe line with no blood. Again Theo ran this
with no problem.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My third line was a 700 yd 72 hour old tracking shoe line
with no blood. Part of this line went through a controlled burn area in the
woods that was done three days before I placed the line. Theo made one mistake
when he left the line on a turn to follow only what I imagine was fresher deer
scent. I gave him the opportunity to correct himself but he didn’t. Also his
body language was such that if the line wasn’t marked I would have followed
him. The second spot that slowed him up was the burn. He really had to pick his
way through this. Even though he had a mistake and got slowed up it only took
40 minutes to finish.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So far my training with him had been excellent. So I decided
for my next line I would try to make it as close to a real hunting track as I
could. In New Jersey you are allowed to bait deer and most of my tracks start
in a bait pile. I have a spot in a natural county park which holds a lot of
un-hunted deer. I train here frequently and I decided that I would pack bait
into the park in two spots. After the deer started feeding there I would start
a training line in one bait pile and track through the second about 300 yds
before the line ended. In about two weeks I had the deer cleaning up about 25
lbs of corn every two days or so. I had a trail camera out at what was going to
be my hit site and pictures confirmed that deer were there regularly and at any
time of day, but mornings and evenings were the best just like in hunting
season. I also had raccoons visiting the corn at night as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i>Deer visiting the bait</i></span></td></tr>
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I decided that Friday after work I would pack in another 25
lbs of corn and the materials needed to make the training line. I dumped the
corn and put on my tracking shoes. This line was going to mimic a bow shot deer
from a high tree stand with a pass-through the liver and gut. I brought an old
half of an arrow and put it in a plastic bag and poured blood on it and let the
fletch soak it up. I put a wad of hair in the hit site and dropped in the
arrow. I was going to walk out of the hit site for 30 yds put down a small
squirt of blood every third time my right foot hit the ground. After the 30 yd mark
there would be no more blood on the line. I tried to walk out so that I wasn’t
on a deer run but there were tracks everywhere. I wanted to make it as evident
as possible that Theo was taking the line and not just any deer leaving the
bait.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Getting ready to lay the track</i></span></td></tr>
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One thing I want to mention is that all my training
materials used on a training track come from the same deer. The feet, blood,
hair, and skin and not only that I only use materials that come from a deer
that has been shot and run before it dies. I don’t use road kills or deer that
die instantly from a gunshot.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe a deer that has been shot and is going to die
smells different to a dog or predator than a healthy one. I see a difference in
my dogs tracking style on a deer that we get as opposed to one that is high
back or shoulder hit. I want my training lines to be as close to real thing as
possible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Shed buck in the bait 1.5 hour before the start</span></i></td></tr>
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The line ended up being about 900 yds. It started in a creek
bottom and went through various terrain to include saplings, a gas line
crossing, brush, mature forest and finally across a power line.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second distraction was located in the mature forest in a
clear area amongst a bunch of blow downs. This was about 300 yds from the end
of the line. Again I left the distraction in a way that was not being used by
the deer so I could tell if Theo was tracking the line correctly. I also lost
one of the hoofs from the tracking shoe in this area and didn’t realize it
until I was finished.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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We started the track on Sunday morning at 9:15 am it was 34
degrees and 40 hrs after the line was put down. Also we had a steady rain most
of Saturday. This was going to about as close to a real track as I could get.
The trail camera had pictures of deer up to an hour and a half before we got
there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I started Theo at the hair and arrow. The rain had washed
all the blood off the arrow but I was sure the fletch still held some scent.
Theo started too quick and really didn’t lock onto the hair or arrow. He was
all over almost instantly. The amount of fresh and old scent there must have
been intense.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Working the hit site.</i></span></td></tr>
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As with most of my hunting tracks, I had a direction of
travel the deer took from the hit site. I didn’t let Theo take any of the deer
runs for any length of time. He crossed over the line a couple of times and
didn’t acknowledge it. I was beginning to think that this was just too hard. I
restarted him three times and made him smell the hair and arrow each time. The
second restart he had part of it but pulled off. On the third restart he ran
right down the line to the spot I picked him up at the second time, made a
correction and started tracking the line. He had it! We spent over 15 minutes
at the hit site and by him settling down recognizing the proper scent and
ignoring the hot scent we were finally making progress.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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We tracked out of the bottom, through the saplings, across
the gas line, into the brush and finally to the mature forest without any real
problem. He located the wound bed in the forest and I gave him a meat reward.
Theo was now heading for the second distraction. When he got into the blow
downs and other scent he started searching. He found the dropped hoof and I
made a mistake here. I rewarded him with some meat, and I think he thought the
track was over. </div>
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I was encouraging him to track and he kept going to where the
hoof was laying and smelling and digging in the dirt. I imagine that there was
a lot of scent there as the hoof laid there for 40 hrs and was rained on for a
day. I finally got him going, and he was now tracking only 1 hoof . We went up
through the hardwoods and turned towards the power line. He tracked to the power
line and out into it. He was searching around and moving side to side in an arc
moving in a forward motion. The skin was just inside the edge on the far side.
I wasn’t sure and I didn’t think he really had it but at one point he was
heading right for the tree that the skin was behind. I dropped the lead
expecting him to find the skin at the tree but he passed on the upwind side and
went right past it and into the next woods. He continued on and I called him
back and was going to do a controlled search on the power line. On his way back
he air scented the hide and went right to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This line took 55 minutes total and 17 minutes at the hit
site and maybe 5 minutes at the second distraction. Once he locked on to the
right scent he had no problem finishing this line. </div>
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Theo has a very good nose
but he also has great mental ability on a track. Put those two things together
and you get a very honest tracking dog that gets the job done without a lot of
mistakes or very little help from me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I couldn’t be happier with our training so far and I’m
already looking forward to the next tracking season.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With a very heavy heart we are sending our deep sympathy to Andre Guerin
from Louisiana. Today he lost his beloved 3.5-year-old dachshund Aleah
to Myasthenia Gravis. I met Aleah and Andre at Trackfest in May 2014 in
North Carolina. She was a beautiful, talented dog and Andre could not
keep his eyes off her. They had an incredibly strong bond. Even though
we did not breed Aleah she was related to our dogs. Her dam, Macaria
Raptor, was imported from the Czech Republic, and she is a sister to Mielikki Raptor. Her
sire was Remy von Moosbach-Zuzelek "Remi". More info on Myasthenia
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-34416223660565125752016-04-07T13:17:00.003-04:002016-04-07T13:17:20.211-04:00"Old Deer Tracker" John Jeanneney: Happy 81st Birthday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today is John's 81st Birthday and I thought it would be interesting and fun to look back at the 81st year of his life. Last year I blogged very little, and many of these events have never been written up.</span></div>
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The picture below shows how John spent April 7, 2015. Paul, his son, and Marilyn came to have a birthday lunch with us, and they put some serious work into cutting down the tree that got damaged due to ice accumulation during previous winter. </div>
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Last year we had two litters of puppies, our W litter and X litter. The W pups (Woody, Waldi, Willette, Wiki, and Willow were born on March 9, and in the picture taken on his birthday, John is holding one of them. The X litter was born on July 26 and produced Xander, Xenos, Xakary, Ximo, Xavier, Xoe, Xola and Xena. This was a lot of work... and fun... and satisfaction.</div>
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On April 24 John gave a talk at the Annual meeting of the NADKC (North American Deutsch Kurzhaar Club) in Cobleskill, NY. Dick Aronica thanked him: "Your presentation on the actual practical side of deer recovery was perfect."</div>
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One of the highlights of John's year was participation in the Annual Workshop (Formation) given by ACCSQ on May 2-3 in St-Apolllinaire, Quebec. The ACCSQ is Association des Conducteurs de Chiens de Sang, which could be translated as Association of Handlers of Blood Tracking Dogs. John gave a talk at this extremely well organized and attended workshop on creating a tracking dog/handler team.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This lead to an article written by Kip Adams, the QDMA Director of Education and Outreach, for Quality Whitetails. Kip said "</span>Thanks for giving such a great presentation at convention. I took a page of notes so I’d remember your advice and realized I needed to share them with others. That’s where the article came from and I hope it can help others this fall and beyond."</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In July John and Andy Bensing traveled to Ontario, Canada, where they conducted "An Introductory Seminar and Field Workshop about Using Trained Tracking Dogs to Find Wounded Big Game". This was in support of Big Game Blood Trackers of Ontario (BGBTO).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the summer John spent many hours in his garden (this is something he can't live without)...</span></div>
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In July John was interviewed for the Hunting Dog Podcast and this interview "Blood Tracking Big Game with Little Dogs" can accessed <a href="http://thehuntingdogpodcast.libsyn.com/blood-tracking-big-game-with-little-dogs" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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In September, there was another presentation in Ontario:<br />
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When a hunting/tracking season arrived, I had my serious doubts whether John would be able to track. He has been battling multiple health issues over the years, but the Old Man proved me wrong again. He found 6 deer for other hunters and he shot a doe to provide meat for this human and canine family.<br />
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This past winter John gave more talks at local churches, which serve "wild game dinners" accompanied by informative presentations on topics related to hunting. His last one was at Bethlehem Community Church in Delmar, NY on March 5, 2016. Four days later he was in the hospital and had a pacemaker inserted.<br />
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Nobody ever knows what next year will bring, but it looks like being inactive while getting older is not an option for John. His tracking days are over, and now he admits it himself. I am sure that he will find a way to stay engaged in the field of tracking dogs and will continue to share his knowledge through articles and books. Happy Birthday My Love!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On March 22 we were shocked to learn that Tom and Christine DiPietro, both 59, from Jericho, VT, died due to the accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. Their three dogs, Scout, Filou and Addie, died with them. For more information about it go <a href="http://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/jericho-community-remembers-tom-christine-dipietro" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Poughkeepsie Journal published the </span><a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/poughkeepsiejournal/obituary.aspx?pid=179426167" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">full obituary</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This
article about Tom and Chris DiPietro from Jericho, VT, was written five years
ago - see </span><a href="http://vtsports.com/deer-tracking-dachshunds/" style="font-family: inherit;">http://vtsports.com/deer-tracking-dachshunds/</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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It is impossible to express the impact of Tom and Chris's death in a couple of short paragraphs. People who were close to them have been grieving deeply. </div>
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lives touched so many people, and this sentiment has been expressed with such
emotion by many of their tracking friends, who were started in the field and supported by Tom
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I received this e-mail from Tom 15 years ago:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #1f497d;">"My name
is Tom DiPietro and I live and track in Northern Vermont. I came to Vermont
nine years ago when my company transferred me to its Essex Junction plant from
Dutchess County New York where I grew up. My love for tracking started many
years ago when I was a bow hunter in New York. One day I made a poor shot on a
doe, after searching all day, I failed to recover the deer and called a number
I had received at a local sportsman show for a group called Deer Search. The
Deer Search volunteers came out and assisted me in tracking the deer, which we
never found. I was very impressed with the way the small Wirehaired Dachshund
worked the trail and the dedicated handlers who gave their time to help a
person they didn’t know. <o></o></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #1f497d;">After
moving to Vermont, due to the demands of a new job, my family adjusting to
their new home and being unfamiliar with the hunting area, I didn’t hunt as
much as I would have liked to. As I became more familiar with the area
and my life settled down, I found myself drawn back to the woods. A few
years ago I heard about a man named Tim Nichols who had helped pass legislation
legalizing leased dog tracking in Vermont similar to the service that I was so
impressed with many years ago in New York. I called Tim and he helped me
to obtain a tracking license in Vermont. Now all I needed was a
dog. I contacted a breeder in western New York, who does blood tracking
with Wirehaired Dachshunds and had just had a litter of puppies, so I decided
to go out and take a look. I came home with a three-month old male puppy
whose nose seemed as long as his body and my son named him Musket." <o></o></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In December 2001 this email arrived showing how serious Tom and his tracking family and friends were about helping hunters:. This was a summary of their 2nd tracking season.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">Well tracking fans the year has finally come to a close.
I have some mixed feelings on this: I'm glad to no longer be waiting for calls
but at the same time I want to be in the woods and find some deer. It drove me
nuts when we went out for an evening, then found out I'd missed a call and lost
an opportunity to find a deer. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">We did much better this year getting out on calls taking
24 of the 37 calls we received. Last year we took 26 of 44 so that shows some
improvement. Calls were definitely down this year because of last year's winter
kill but the lack of snow in VT extended our season 3 weeks over last year and
we came close in the total number of calls. Perhaps the best improvement we had
was in the number of finds we had: 12 of 24 for a exceptional 50% find rate.
When you add to this the fact that we actually came up with 2 other deer that
we found but determined they were okay and stopped chasing, and 2 more that we
didn't find but they were seen alive later in the season I think we had a
season that far exceeded our hopes. For comparison sake we found only 6 last
year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">A few more numbers of interest: our avg call time was 9
hours after the hunter shot and the avg time of the deer we found was 7.8 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">We did get some interesting feedback from a guy I tracked
for last year and didn't find his deer. Last year he shot a deer in the
shoulder with his rifle and we had a very good run, but came up empty. Well
this year he shot a deer in the same area that had a broken leg and a nasty
healed over wound on the same side as the one he wounded last year. We believe
it was the same deer that survived the year, what a great animal!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">As far as our
last 4 finds we had one very easy run where the deer made a quick turn and lost
the hunter. Musket and I never even got to the last blood before Musket turned
left and started down a trail. The hunter was saying: no, the blood is over here, you are going backwards. I was starting to pull Musket in when I noticed a smear
of blood on a tree. I let him go and within 15 - 20 yards we had the deer. The
deer had executed a little J maneuver and I had to tell the hunter twice before it sunk in that we had the deer that quickly. We could still see his boat in
the backyard.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">Another find was
in Craftsbury over an hour away and perhaps one of our best tracking jobs of
the year. We went a long, long way with no sign before we found a single drop
of blood. The hunter had walked out on the same trail the evening before so we
had our doubts but Muskie was working well so we stuck with him and went a long
way again before we found another spot of blood. The hunter was quite impressed
and studying the blood spot when the trail got hot and we found a few more good
spots of blood and then the dead deer. Something else had found it before us
and a fair chunk of one hind quarter was missing and leaves had been thrown
over the deer. We could have given up on the trail a number of times but Musket
"looked" like he was working so we didn't quit and ended up with a very impressive find. Chris was with us and we followed the guy to the check
station where we enjoyed celebrity status. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">We had another
very exciting chase on a four point buck 41 hours after he was shot. Someone
else had tracked the deer the prior evening but they couldn't get a shot into
it. We went out the next day and took up the trail from where the first tracker
had started the previous evening. We eventually kicked the deer up (this was 41
hours after the shot and he was still alive!!! </span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;">Like I said what a animal) after a short chase and a few
more shots we had him down. It ended up the hunter had not shot him in the gut
as he had indicated but shot his front leg completely off. Yes: "off
" and the bullet also passed through into his other leg so he was running
on 2 and a half legs. Chris says it was really a unfair chase because 3 people,
3 guns and 2 different dogs seems a little unfair. But it was really a good
find because this deer was coyote bait for sure.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">The last deer was another rifle shot that the hunter lost
the trail after a long track. We re-established the track very quickly and took
it to the deer in just a few minutes. This was another very impressed hunter
who we had to tell twice that we had the deer because he didn't think a little
dog could be that good.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;"> In review the
season was great, we found 12 deer but we were able to share the finds with
Rei, TJ, Danny, Scott Lopez, Scott's friend Joe, and Chrissy. </span></i><i><span style="color: #073763;">I think the most fun day was with Rei, TJ, Danny and
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">I can't wait till
next year, I'll be losing Scott Lopez to college but Chris is going to get
licensed and we will be running Filly and Musket which is sure to be a great
team. We've learned a ton this year and made some equipment improvements. I
never mentioned the night my light died and I had to stop and go back the next
day.</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Tom got Musket from Sue Redden, a Deer Search tracker from Western NY. Sue bred
her Sage von Moosbach-Zuzelek, our Sabina’s littermate, to a male that had been
bred by Gary Huber. Sage was a small, feisty female, who turned out to be a
very good tracker. Musket, her son, lived to be 14.5 and found 148 deer for
Vermont hunters.</span></div>
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seemed to be a bit impulsive when it came to getting puppies. I remember he
came to us to get a backup dog for Musket, and at the time the only pup we had
was Filou von Moosbach-Zuzelek. She did not look too promising, but Tom did not
want to wait for the next litter and got her. The arrangement was that he could
return her within next few months. He kept her. In spite of a pretty good
tracking start, she never turned out to be a decent tracking dog. At one point
she was placed with a new family but she missed her old home too much and came
back to live with Tom and Chris as their pet. She died with them at almost 15.</span></div>
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came back to us to get another dachshund, and around that time Filou’s sister
Fredrika (Rica) became available. In October he wrote:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="color: #073763;">John, I wanted to give you a quick update on our
last few days and Rica's progress. First off, while we were gone the boys took
two calls and found one so we didn't miss much while down at your house.
Saturday night we got a call where the hunter indicated a shot through the body
cavity but he wasn't sure exactly where. I took both dogs out with Scott
handling Musket and Rica with me. We put the dogs down and Musket started the
track while Rica ran off a little to the right. Once Musket was gone I
restarted Rica and she marched along the track that Musket had taken. She
appeared to be tracking so I let her do her thing. When we caught up to the
others they had just gotten to the point of loss and Musket was doing some
checks. Rica never faltered and marched right through! With us now leading the
way we covered 50 yards when Rica turned left up the side of a cut corn field.
Musket reached the point where we had turned and stayed straight, found blood,
and continued the track. We followed for quite a distance when we reached a
point that Musket was having trouble and we fared no better. Musket eventually
restarted the track and we were off again but I kept Rica back behind on the
trail. We reached another field where Musket was having trouble and once again
Rica marched through without hesitation. With us now leading we crossed a
stream and recrossed again. Just when I was thinking we were lost we picked up
some blood to confirm the track, found her bed and kicked the deer up! Not long
after finding the bed we lost the track and never regained it but I was
thrilled with her first track and the way her and Musket had worked their own trails but
combined to have a very impressive track</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2006 Larry Gohlke leased Fredrika (he raised
her) and bred her to Susanne Hamilton’s Buster. This litter produced Danika and Nix;
Cheri Faust’s Danika is an all-time #1 field trial dachshund in the States. Tom
had one more litter out of Fredrika and Buster, and Scout and Avy came out of that breeding.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chris DiPietro</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chris DiPietro</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">TJ and Tom DiPietro and Sally Marchmont</span> </td></tr>
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In 2013 John wrote <a href="http://borntotracknews.blogspot.com/2013/11/women-as-handlers-of-blood-tracking-dogs.html" target="_blank">a blog post about women</a> as handlers and this is what Chris said:</div>
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<i><span style="color: #073763;">The original motivation for tracking was to spend time with my husband,
Tom, who loved tracking more than hunting. I love to be in the woods
and he would always ask me to go with him, so I would go and help him
spot blood. I also love a working dog and truly enjoyed watching Musket
unravel the puzzle to find the deer. My motivation to continue is to
train our newest tracking dogs, Scout (WHD) and Addie (BMH) and to help
the hunting community find their deer. It is very rewarding to find a
deer that the hunter could not find him/herself. My favorite weekend to
track is our Youth weekend. It makes you feel so good to help a young
hunter find his/her very first deer. Other motivations are that it
keeps me in good health and you meet so many interesting people. I
remember my first years of tracking, I would be so exhausted. Running
up & down mountains and through swamps and thickets is very tiring.
Tom and I started training for sprint triathlons to keep us in shape
for the "tracking" season. Just another thing we could do together. Now
I can track for hours and still get up the next day and do it all over
again. The hunters are very appreciative when we come out to help them
and we have made many friends through our tracking connections. I love
the time I get to spend with Tom, in the woods with my dogs. It's my
favorite time of year.</span></i></div>
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Our deepest condolences and sympathy go to the DiPietro family and their friends such as Susanne Hamilton, Sally Marchmont and Scott Lopez. Tom and Chris lost their lives way too soon but they made difference in this world and they will never be forgotten. RIP.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5964329604594247607.post-7911422269623018332016-04-02T20:58:00.000-04:002016-04-02T20:58:17.622-04:00When you can't find the deer you have shot, a trained tracking dog can help!<span style="font-family: inherit;">So February and March have gone by without a single post. There have been a number of reasons for my absence, most out of my control, but let's not dwell on the whole thing. It's always hard to resume posting after a long break so I'll start with something simple, like why, even in the states where tracking dogs are legal and quite popular, a lot of hunters don't use them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know that in Michigan there are a lot tracking dogs. Yet, today I came across the article that troubled me a great deal and made my blood boil: <i><b>A Hunter's Hard Choice to Follow a Blood Trail, or to Wait, and the Consequences</b></i> by Tony Hansen. You can read it <a href="http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/big-buck-zone/hunter%E2%80%99s-hard-choice-follow-blood-trail-or-wait-and-consequences" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Don't miss the comments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It looks like the author has no idea that a tracking dog could be of great help in his situation. And neither people who made comments. Tracking dogs are especially useful in situations when a deer does not leave much blood sign. They are trained to track an individual, specific deer, even if there is very little blood or none at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To locate a tracking dog handler Tony Hansen could have gone to the United Blood Trackers <a href="http://www.unitedbloodtrackers.org/" target="_blank">website</a> and click on the "Find-a-Tracker" link and then a map of Michigan. The link is: </span><a href="http://www.unitedbloodtrackers.org/find-a-tracker/?state=mi">http://www.unitedbloodtrackers.org/find-a-tracker/?state=mi</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the hunting season of 2015/16,<b> members of the United Blood Trackers <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;">found 1000 whitetail deer, 15 mule deer, 11 bear, 4 hogs, 1 moose, 1 elk, 1 auodad sheep & 1 turkey.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19.32px;"> </span> </b></span><br />
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When you can't find the deer you have shot, a trained tracking dog can help! It's the only right and responsible thing to do.<br />
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