Anyone train a dog to track blood?

[white848evo]

Anybody on here have any experience with training a dog on how to follow blood trail? Golden Retiever and he is terribly smart. Any one have any tips or advice?!

[Dirtymike]

why yes, there are a few around here. Search tbh tracking dog. A huge thread on it. Good info. If I was on a pc I would send u the link.

[txpitdog]

Do a search, but start small and very easy. Be consistent each and every time, including how you signal to the dog that it's time to start working. Only after they consistently master a short straight trail with heavy blood should you change anything. You can make the trail longer OR put a turn in it OR use less blood, but don't d anything more than one variable at a time. The dog will figure it out and you can slowly make your mock trails more challenging.

[white848evo]

I tried searching before posting and found mostly people describing their pups that already mastered the ability. Interwebs have many differing opinions on it all. Just wanted to talk to someone who had done it personally. You know that whole first hand experience thing.

[AntlerCollector]

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=464157&highlight=Blood+tracking

PM. TUCO

[elkbowhunter]

http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...Blood+tracking

ha! the search button is your friend

[white848evo]

Apparently not that good of a friend I didn't see much. Not on speaking terms i guess. Thanks gents!

[Phillip Fields]

Try this book.

http://www.born-to-track.com/book/order-info.htm

[Atfulldraw]

you can drop him off here and we will get him trained

or you can do it yourself.

We start with blood, and lots of it as soon as they stop nursing.
We put it on their kibble and also dunk raw meat in it and hand feed them with it.

Puppies get hides, antlers and deer legs at about five weeks old just to play with.

That progresses to short tracks with blood drips and raw meat inside the barn, then longer tracks outside with more blood. We then work into progressively longer tracks with blood, then animal hides, legs and more raw meat as a treat.

The blood trail gets reduced and the tracks get longer.....

And we put them on every kill we can. One or two dogs get the real thing, then we bring the carcass back and drag it around and hide it for the other dogs to trail.

Nothing beats the real thing, though.

[Froggy]

I've trained a couple using the methods in the link posted above.

[SoTxHunter]

How old is your dog? Dont get to frustrated if your dog doesnt take to it quickly. I believe that certain dogs have a higher prey drive that really make them good tracking dog. But, you never know. Youre dog could just be a natural.

I would put a bell on my pup when working mock trails. To this day, he hears that bell and he gets sooo excited to work!!!!!! Also, my dog was young when I started so I only did one trail a week.

[white848evo]

My dog is 4 years old. I know starting him as a pup would have been ideal; but It's a wee bit late for that. Chase (the dog) is terribly smart though. Retrieving and pleasing is his life. So I wouldn't assume it would be terribly difficult for him to pick it up. Or maybe I'm completely wrong and this will be hellacious.

[Atfulldraw]

My dog is 4 years old. I know starting him as a pup would have been ideal; but It's a wee bit late for that. Chase (the dog) is terribly smart though. Retrieving and pleasing is his life. So I wouldn't assume it would be terribly difficult for him to pick it up. Or maybe I'm completely wrong and this will be hellacious.

it's the same method.

[white848evo]

Thanks a lot guys!