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A buddy turned me onto this forum a couple days ago. I read through these comments and there are some misconceptions, but most of the folks understand the reasoning for having a tracking dog. I couldn't make it to the whitetail classic, but if you did, the United Blood Trackers booth should have offered you a lot of good information. Locally, there is also a good facebook page titled Iowa Blood Trackers. There is some good information there.
Just to clear up a couple of things that were mentioned: We do not turn our dogs (we own a registered wire hair dachshund, so do a couple of other local guys) loose on anything for tracking. We do use a leash or "tether" and the dog is completely under our control. We do not use our dogs to hunt or "push" deer. I can't even begin to convince you that that is the absolute furthest thing from our mind, I say that because we have children or friends children involved in hunting deer and we try to convey to them how to ethically pursue deer.
We DO anticipate a phone call from a buddy or a buddies buddy saying they lost track of a deer they wounded.
I can't comment on the trespassing issues, but, I would make sure that the property owners ground isn't presently being hunted and an accident happens. Iowa had a safe year last year, no reason to be a statistic.
I endorsed this long before we got a dog, because it made sense. Our dog came from an Illinois family. This family assisted in the pioneering efforts to legalized leashed tracking in Illinois. An unfortunate death left the dog with no owner. And so now our interest, mostly my sons hunting interests, can continue to use this dog for how it was raised.
I don't have much other input. I don't do this for myself, but rather my son who is becoming a great outdoorsman. Last night he wanted to start shooting clay pigeons with his bow but it was getting dark.
Sorry for the beginners rant.
Just to clear up a couple of things that were mentioned: We do not turn our dogs (we own a registered wire hair dachshund, so do a couple of other local guys) loose on anything for tracking. We do use a leash or "tether" and the dog is completely under our control. We do not use our dogs to hunt or "push" deer. I can't even begin to convince you that that is the absolute furthest thing from our mind, I say that because we have children or friends children involved in hunting deer and we try to convey to them how to ethically pursue deer.
We DO anticipate a phone call from a buddy or a buddies buddy saying they lost track of a deer they wounded.
I can't comment on the trespassing issues, but, I would make sure that the property owners ground isn't presently being hunted and an accident happens. Iowa had a safe year last year, no reason to be a statistic.
I endorsed this long before we got a dog, because it made sense. Our dog came from an Illinois family. This family assisted in the pioneering efforts to legalized leashed tracking in Illinois. An unfortunate death left the dog with no owner. And so now our interest, mostly my sons hunting interests, can continue to use this dog for how it was raised.
I don't have much other input. I don't do this for myself, but rather my son who is becoming a great outdoorsman. Last night he wanted to start shooting clay pigeons with his bow but it was getting dark.
Sorry for the beginners rant.
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