I have decided to try a rat terrier for tracking wounded deer. Does anyone know of someone in N.Y. or Pa that breeds hunting dogs. AKC dogs are way out of my price range. I see them down south for reasonable prices but VA or KY is a long way to travel.
You certainly don;t need AKC papers to get a dog that will follow scent.
Just a modicum of training should teach any mixed breed what he/she is looking for (bar the 'toy' breeds)
http://www.thetroutbum.com/messageboardfr.htm
Try this site
all about blood tracking dogs
best tracking dog I`ve had was a sooner. He could find a deer or hog without blood.RC
Oh Jeez- here we go again. I'm sitting this one out...
Beagle
RC....what's a sooner?
I'm with Monty
Black lab worked for me. Kirby was his name. passed about 3 months ago. We used to pick up the road kills in S.E. Wis. and he could find them with out a blood trail when they would run off into a field or woods. Helped me find coyote's too, miss that dog alot.
get ya a coon hound that wont hunt coon can get them pretty cheap or free real easy to train to track deer had an redbone that woundnt hunt coons but people stoped by ever year to get me to find deer they could not find thats how he earned his keep he was a good old dog