Judy Catrett from Georgia owns Mossy Brooke whose registered name is Viola von Moosbach-Zuzelek. Mossy is a 19-month-old daughter of our Tommy (FC Tom vom Linteler-Forst) and FC Tuesday von Moosbach-Zuzelek. This is Mossy's second tracking season. She gets a lot of tracking opportunities at a hunting plantation managed by Craig, Judy's husband. I get a lot of pictures and stories from Judy (thank you Judy!) and will try to share some of them here. This one came yesterday.
Mossy and I have been so busy tracking wounded deer this
past week, I have had very little time to email. She has recovered 15 deer so
far this year and most of these have been for hunters in the area who have
heard about Mossy Brooke. The majority of her recent tracks have been more
difficult--ranging from several hours to 24 plus hours old.
The buck in the picture was several hours old. This young lady was just engaged 2 weeks ago,
was shooting her new rifle given to her by her future husband, and could not
find the buck she had shot. Mossy Brooke
to the rescue. Mossy was shown the site
at which the buck was shot, and she immediately picked up the track and started
through the woods. The lady told Craig
that she did not think the buck went the way Mossy was tracking. Craig assured
her that Mossy should be allowed to track the direction her nose was leading
her. Mossy continued with confidence and
I began seeing blood. Mossy tracked to the edge of a beaver pond, which I knew
we could not cross due to the depth of the water and I could not see a floating
deer anywhere near. Mossy then turned
and began tracking up the edge of the pond.
Within a few minutes, Mossy had found the buck. Craig had already told
Stephanie that 3 blows from the whistle meant that Mossy had found the
buck. Craig said that when they heard
the whistle, Stephanie began screaming with joy and dancing. They made their
way into the woods to Mossy and me.
After
some celebrating and pictures, Craig asked Stephanie's fiancé to help him pull
the deer out of the woods. Stephanie
immediately interrupted and informed Craig that she would help him pull the
deer out. As it turned out, everyone had
a turn pulling the deer. This makes
mine, Craig's and Mossy's day. We helped
load the deer on the 4 wheeler and then left the newly engaged couple in the
woods celebrating. To make things even better, Bubba, Stephanie's fiancé had
killed a buck that morning--much smaller than Stephanie's.
We have had about 5 tracks that we have not recovered the
deer during the past week. Mossy tracked and worked hard, but after going about
1/2 mile without blood, I stopped her. I continue to learn from other trackers
posts and definitely from John. We plan
to be quite busy this weekend as Craig has hunters and our little town is full
of hunters right now. I think Mossy has
had 8 tracks this past week.
Mossy sleeps on pillow beside me every night like a
little human pup. We love her so much. Thank you again for choosing us as
Mossy's family.
Judy
Some of Mossy's recoveries from 2015.
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