Lacy the Blood Trail Dog, 2 for 2, 2010

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Lacy’s 2 nd tracking job for 2010!

Well, I put a shaft thru to boiler room of a nice forked horn buck this morning and it was time to give Lacy a little track job.

As usual, without a word she back tracked me right to the stand and we were off on the deer track. She learned real quick as a pup that daddy’s back track leads to a dead deer. That is something you need to remember if your going to train your own blood trail dog. By the time I got Lacy out there the track was aged a little over 4 hours.

It was a pretty easy track except for the three deer that had crossed the blood trail about 15-20 minutes after the buck had run off. Lacy faded a step or two off on their trail but got back on the right deer without me correcting her. That was pretty awesome. I don’t know for sure if she just got lucky on that or if she really got it right and knew what was going on with the distraction of the other 3 deer. It looked like she knew which track was which.

It was a short 50yd or so track and she went right to him and we made successful, recovery #2 for the 2010 bow season.

I need to go back and see what her record is to date. I can only think of 3 deer and a hog she did not recover and I feel one of the deer was not hit at all. One was apparently shot in the lower foreleg and not recoverable. The third deer is a mystery! There were a pile of other deer and hogs in the area and I think this really confused her on which was the one she was supposed to be following. She was just a year and a half old at that point. The hog was the same situation. There was a half a dozen of them and they had been all over the area like rats. We just never got it straightened out from the other hogs. She has probably found 20-24 deer successfully. I will research that and confirm the exact number. I will try to get those tracks posted as soon as I can.

Larry S.

Lacy, My 12 Week Old Bluetick Pup Finds First Deer!

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Sept. 22, 2007

This was so incredible I had to share it with everybody.

Lacy, my new blood trail prospect just found her first deer! Absolutely incredible!

I shot a 90# doe on the afternoon of the opening day of bow season in s stand of flooded pine trees. The deer splashed off thru the flood water and out of sight. I had been waiting for this moment, although I had not planned for such a difficult track for her first live exercise. Lacy and I have been training just about every day on short blood tracks I have laid for her.

Well, she just turned 12 weeks plus three days and sucessfully recovered the deer on her first real track in belly deep water! Pretty remarkable for such a young pup under those extreme conditions. I could hardly believe it!

There was another deer involved in the deal and Lacy made one loose and got off on the wrong deer. I recognizing her mistake and I took her back to the last blood and she straightened it out from there and went right to the deer.

The doe was literally floating in an old flooded pull trail, 2/3 submerged and Lacy was all but swimming by the time she found the deer! A 100 yd track in flooded conditions the whole way! Had I not seen it with my own two eyes I would not have believed it.

I gave Lacy some well deserved praise and began rafting the deer out to the hill. When we got back to the truck and started getting ready to take some pictures I turned around and Lacy was eating my our deer! I don't mean just licking it, she was tearing into the thing like she was half starved to death. It was a sight to see. She LOVES these things!

Here's some pictures of her first find

She sure looks like she is going to make one fine blood trail dog.

Best of Hunts,
Larry S.
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Lacy & Her Pet, Rosie!

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Here's a few pictures of Lacy i thought everyone would enjoy.

I have been working her on short tracks almost every day and I pack her everywhere I go. What a pain that is becoming! However this is very important and builds a bond between you and your dog that will return big rewards in the future. Additionally, the dog will learn so much more than a dog that is kept in a pen 24/7. That is not the way to go if you really want to develope a serious tracking dog.

Oh! the little brown dog in the picture is Rosie, Lacy's pet. Technically, I guess that is Rosie's bed but The "monster" as my girls refer to Lacy, has claimed posession of it at this point. Really pisses Rosie off!

Larry

My New Blood Trailing Hound, Lacy!

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I have been considering getting a new tracking dog prospect for tracking crippled deer.

Well, here she is.....Her name is Lacy, she is a full blooded Bluetick Coon Hound. Time will tell if I made the right pick. It's only been a day and she is about to wear me out. She better make a good one is all I can say!

I really wanted a Bavarian Mountain Bloodhound but they are quite proud of them and they start at about $1,000.00 if you can even get on the waiting list.

In an effort to keep me from buying a thousand dollar dog my bride Tammie, alerted me to an add in the local paper for some bluetick pups that were a third of the cost of a BMH.

We called the number in the add and setup an appointment to see the pups. I took a deer leg with me to see if i could get any reaction out of any of the pups and it came down to two females and we finally ended up with this one.

I had already decided I wanted a female as from my experience I feel females are a Little smarter and level headed. You have the issue of heat cycles but all in all I prefer a female.

The training process will start immediately with short deer blood training tracks and a regular diet of raw deer meat. I have been prepping for this and have enough blood, liver and legs to train 10 dogs.

Deciding to take on the training of a blood trail dog is quite a commitment if you expect results. It's going to be a pile of work and a lot of aggravation but in the end it will be worth it.

Here's a few pic's

Larry S.