My dog is nine years old and I trained him to find things since he was a pup. The place we hunt in East Texas has heavy brush and I knew sooner or later we would have to find a deer in the thick brush. I trained him at home by hiding dog biscuits in the house and teaching him the command "find it." Then when I would go hunting I would always keep him where I could get to him and when I killed an animal and knew where it was, I would still bring him out and get him to "find it."

Well, last night we finally needed him. My son shot a deer just at the last of the visible light and it ran somewhere in the brush. We never had any issue with the Core Lokt rounds killing the animal but this one ran into the thick stuff and left no blood trail that we ever saw. It was dark as pitch and even with the lights we had no clue which way it ran. Brought the dog and he found it in less than 10 minutes, not 20 yards away in the thick stuff. As dense as our place is, without the dog we would have been out there a very long time on a cold dark night searching very thick woods that is very hard to walk through. The dog earned his keep. Man, that was a relief how quickly he found him.

So guys it wasn't hard to train him. I never spent the time to train him to actually track, just find, so he does a random search, but he doesn't give up till he finds it. Found this one pretty quick and saved us a long night of searching.

Great dog and outcome!

Nice and congrats

Fantastic!

Nothing like a dog, good boy

good boy!

Fantastic! I swear some dogs just have "it." 'Hope he's getting pampered right now.

Well done pup, now give that good dog some kind of very nice treat.

Great job doggy

Makes a fellow happy when things work out like they should.

Love it...!!!

Love it, same think I told my Brittney when trailing one. Some dogs just have it others not so much.

All those years training that dog to find things on the chance that we might need him, then losing that deer in the dark……..man o man it was such a relief seeing that dog find that deer. He did exactly what he was supposed to. Saved us a long night of frustration. I’m still feeling good days later.

The day we got him from the pound he was sniffing the ground.

Awesome story and outcome!

Gotta love our canine friends! Great story!

Congrats!

I trained my last a beagle from a pup using her food and eventually graduated to saved blood from deer. Used her only two times but she found them both. Lost her this year at just shy of 16 years old.

This last year I started getting my kids 6 & 10 to start tracking, they found 2 this weekend.

That's cool