The Blooded Hound Big Game Tracking Service

05/24/2025

These 2 just patiently waiting to start running training tracts!

02/07/2025

These guys did the last deer I shot and did a great job! And their summer sausage is excellent!

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02/04/2025

With deer season finally over we would like to thank everyone that trusted Cheri and I to help track your deer! Cheri had some really good recoveries this season and even added elk to her tracking resume!

Idk how many tracks we did this fall, but I do know we did more this season than any other, Cheri made her 70th find of her 3 year tracking career this season. Hopefully she can get to 100 next fall! And if not, hers still a pretty bloodhound dog!

01/27/2025

Last night after I brought Red in from his little training session, Cheri took one whiff of his mouth and knew exactly what we had been up to, and proceeded to throw a tampertantrum until I took her out to run the track also!

She is the most temperamental, mouthiest and needy dog I have ever seen in my life! I guess she decided covering this deer up was the best option to keep Red from finding it again. That or she has decided she is cat and is covering up her catches... idk!

01/27/2025

We a got a good 75 yard training track for Red tonight. He did alright for his 3rd time out on a track and his 1st time on his own without Cheri. You can see him air scent the deer just before he crosses the ditch.

GOOD BOY RED DOG!!

01/03/2025

Cheri and I are back from our trapping trip. We would like to get a few more tracks in before the season closes.

We will be tracking within 30 minutes of Imlay City for donations the rest of the season. Or be taking training tracks for Red.

12/24/2024

Cheri wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas before she went on the line check this morning!

12/22/2024

I shot this doe last night quartering too me. I hit her behind the shoulder and exited through the liver. She ran about 100 yards, so I decided to go back home and get the bloodhounds and see if Red could find her.

I haven't worked with him on scent yet but I've noticed he tracks everything and he is always working is nose, and I figured blood would definitely grab his attention.

I took him to the hit site, pointed to the hair and told him, find that! He quickly grabbed the line and head right toward the deer. He got within 25 yards of her and over ran the line. The doe had made a hard left turn just before she died.

I gave him a couple of minutes to try to figure it out, but the temps were already at -1 degrees and dropping fast, I got a little impatient and I turned the new pup trainer Cheri loose!

Cheri went right to her and Red followed her the 25 yards. I wasn't surprised he missed that turn as he is still so full of energy, but I think in time, he will be a good tracking dog.

Cheri was not thrilled to have him with her on a track so I'll have to work on that also.

If anyone shoots a deer and needs some help, please give us a call. Red could use the training, and of course I would bring Cheri along as insurance that we don't leave your deer behind!

This track was 4 hours old and it was so cold, the blood was freezing as it came out of the deer. I think had that not happened Red may have not missed that turn and gone to her.

12/19/2024

Cheri tracked her 1st ELK yesterday!

It took 3 starts to get her on the track. The DNR had been out to clear the hunter and had walked right on the line.

After the 3rd start Cheri grabbed the cow line and off she went. About 1 mile into the track we found our last blood. All the blood we found was just little drops so finding the cow dead wasn't looking good.

I let Cheri continue and about 400 yards later, she had jumped the cow on ridge top. We continued the track to see if pushing her would get her to start bleeding again.

We crossed a road and she had not started to bleed again. I checked my Onx to see how far we had gone and seen that she was headed toward some private land we did not have permission to track on, so we had to stop the track.

So I guess technically she did find the cow! Just not the way the hunter wanted us to find her!

He had been cleared to continue his hunt by the DNR, so hopefully he will call and Cheri can go pull some hair or bury her 1st Elk.

12/06/2024

We will be adding a 2nd tracker to our pack. Meet Red! Red is a 1.5 y.o male bloodhound and will be backing Cheri up next fall.

Cheri isn't a giant fan of this but I think she will be alright with some help come next fall.

12/02/2024

We got a call from Brian Saturday afternoon. He said he was hunting with his daughter Friday night and had shot a doe with his 450. He said the doe dropped to the ground in the front end and plowed through the field then finally getting her legs under her and ran off into a thicket.

He waited until Saturady morning to track so his kids could be involved. They tracked the deer about 200 yards with good blood before losing the blood trail.

They looked around a bit to see if they could find her laying somewhere in the woods but had no luck.

I told Bryan we could help later that day if he would like. He said yes so I scheduled him around 6:30pm.

When we arrived, Brian said he had last blood marked at the back of the thicket, so I suggested we start there as I really didn't want to crawl 200 yards thru that thicket if I didn't have too!

Cheri quickly locked on to the doe and led us to a creek. She had indicated the deer had crossed the creek, so as I looked for a good place to cross, I noticed eyes reflecting back at me about 40 yards on the other side of the creek. I told Brain... right there is your deer! He was shocked she was still alive.

I told him go get your rifle out of the truck and we will stay here to make sure she does leave.

The deer never moved and Brian was able to put a follow up shot on this doe.

Cheri was not happy that I made her wait as she whined and tried to pull out of her harness the entire time we waited for Brian to return but she got her chance to bury the doe shortly after the final shot.

12/02/2024

I got a text from Bob Friday night. He said he had shot a buck around 4pm at 100 yards with his 450BM and the buck had hunched up and taken 2 bounds and stopped, then started walking off.

He said he had gotten out of his blind to slip around a small wood lot to shoot the buck again, but once he got around the woods the buck was gone.

We planned to met at daylight Saturday morning to track his buck. We suspected the buck had been liver shot and needed at least 12 hours.

We started our track at 8am in the area that Bob thought the buck had gone. After searching that area and coming up with nothing, I suggested we try the woods that the deer was near when shot.

We skirted the edge and Cheri did not pick up anything. I was starting to think the buck had been missed as Cheri will usually start herself even if there isn't any hair or blood at the hit site.

I told Bob, lets go up to the end of the wood lot, cut in 50 yards or so and walk Cheri to the south and see if she picks up on line. We walked about 75 yards into the woods and I seen her head snap and she turned left down a trail and I could tell right away, she was tracking Bob's buck. She went about 60 yards and we found blood. Shortly after that we found a wound bed.

The blood in the bed indicated a mid body hit. We continued a short distance through the thicket and about another 40 yards, Cheri took me to Bob's buck!

The buck was liver/gut hit so I'm not sure why Cheri couldn't pick him up from the shot site. The wind was blowing good the night before from the field to the wood lot so all I can think is the scent was blown back into the woods and we just never got close enough to the actual hit site. Regardless of how she found the buck she still did it.