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Tiny but Mighty Big Game Recovery

Wound game tracking and recovery with dogs. Servicing the Eastern Upper Peninsula and Tip of the Mitt of Michigan.

10/19/2025

I got a wonderful puppy update tonight. Peanut has been in training all summer learning the ways of the tracking dog. Tonight her handler got a call from a friend to see if she could find his deer. Peanut tracked the deer step for step making this her first real world recovery. At 9 months old, I couldn't be happier to see a puppy I bred getting to do jobs and following in their mother's footsteps. Looking forward to hearing more from this new Wisconsin tracking team.

Also I'm back from my trip and ready to get back into the woods.

10/08/2025

I will be out of town starting tomorrow 10/8 until 10/15 due to a death in the family. I have attached both the Michigan Deer Trackers and the Michigan Deer Tracking Network lists to hopefully help hunter's out while I'm gone.

09/17/2025

We got a call last night from Andrew. He had shot a bear and lost blood. He had his arrow recovered and sent me a video of it. The arrow was covered in dark red almost black organ blood. I told him I would be out first thing in the morning.

We arrived at the 13 hour mark after the shot and got to work. Chipmunks had Rascal all spun up when we got there but after getting her focused, she got to work. She made short work of the 350 yard track and found the bear deceased in its den. This was Andrew's first bear and first time using a dog to locate a wounded animal. Rascal is definitely his new best friend as this bear would have never been recovered without a dog.

Congratulations Andrew on your gorgeous UP boar black bear.

09/15/2025

Rascal is on the board this morning with a youth buck.

Youth hunter shot last night and mom saw it was low and back indicative of a gut shot. They track a short way only to lose blood. They backed out and called us in this morning.

We arrived at the 14 hour mark and got to work. It was warm and dry do not the most ideal. Rascal had her work cut out as there was lots of live deer tracks she had to sift through. After several restarts, I decided to let her work them out off lead so we could cover more ground. I kept a close eye on the GPS as we started a grid search. I saw Rascal wasn't moving. I called Rascal back to us and she wouldn't move which is very unusual for her. I had a feeling she had something so we walk the short distance to her, to see her standing on the buck. The hunter, mom and grandpa were ecstatic to bring their youth hunt to a very happy close.

Congratulations young lady on your handsome UP buck.

04/10/2025

The rare moment you catch the puppy sleeping 😆.

It's hard to believe that someone hasn't snatched this pretty girl up. Squirt is now 9 weeks old and looking for a nice active family placement. She is litter trained, has been exposed to chickens, goats, horses and other dogs. She follows her nose and she should be a good candidate for tracking.

03/15/2025

Puppy update!

Puppies took a trip to town today to get their shots and final checkup before leaving for their new homes. Almost all the staff had to stop in to our room to play with the puppies. All puppies got a clean bill of health and ready to start their next chapter in their life.

Puppies will start going to their new homes this weekend already. Time really has flown by. There is still 1 female looking for her new family, she is a very spicy little girl and will do best in a working home.

02/22/2025

Puppy update!

Pups are 4 weeks old already and getting very adventurous. The kids really enjoy getting to spend time with these little pups.

I do have a few available yet. They will be great for an active household that likes to go out and do things.

02/19/2025

Not only are Rascal and Flynn hard working tracking dogs, they are also multi titled dogs. This past year we were able to make a few shows and both earned their breed championship title.

Harvey (my son and tracking buddy) and Flynn were a heck of a pair in the junior show ring, participating in both Obedience and Rally Obedience. (Both can be challenging with a terrier as they are a very strong willed breed). Today we got mail and Harvey and Flynn earned UKC Top Junior awards in both sports. To say I'm one proud mama would be an understatement.

Then to round out the mail, Rascal and Flynn tied for second place for all Parson Russell Terriers in the entire UKC. I'm so proud of my tiny but mighty team.

01/29/2025

Puppies are all doing well. 3 days old now and eating like champs. I decided on a couple winners as she surprised us with a 6th puppy.

Maryann Rogers
Hannah LaPointe
Chad Cerrone

I'll be contacting you all for your sizes and addresses.

01/27/2025

Rascal decided to start having pups today while I was out doing chores. Ryan came in to find Rascal had abandoned her whelping box and had her first pup under our bed. I got them both moved to the box and she birthed the other 5. She had 6 puppies total. 3 girls 3 boys. Both her and puppies are resting and doing very well. I'll announce the winner of the t-shirt tomorrow after I go through all the comments. There will be more puppy pictures to come.

01/19/2025

Hello followers, things have been pretty crazy following rifle season this year and I forgot to do a year end post.

We had a very tough season. We were able to go on 22 tracks (including 3 bear) but only 5 recoveries. There was 8 that I heard back were confirmed alive. 3 were harvested within a few days after the track. Seems like the deer are getting tougher each year and surviving shots that should have been fatal.

To bring in the new year, Rascal passed all her health checks and will be having puppies next weekend! She is bred to a very nice stud that will make for some very well balanced hard working little dogs. Rascal is going in on January 21st for an xray to count puppies.

Anyone have guesses? I'll give a t shirt out to the first person that can guess the number of puppies and number of each sex. If not an exact guess then I'll go with the closest.

11/10/2024

Another on the tailgate.

Hunter called last night, thought he had a good shot, couldn't find any blood when looking. He backed out and called us. Got all the info, I had a good feeling from the info that his deer was dead.

We arrived at about the 16 hour mark after the shot. Hunter was worried about the rain but I assured him it won't effect Rascal's nose. We got geared up and headed into the shot site.

We heard some crows and then an eagle and Rascal had her nose in the air and took off. We hustled after her only to hear her barking and standing on a brush pile. She had scared the eagle off the the hunter's deer. Hunter was very happy to have recovered his deer. There was a good amount of predator damage, but there is still some salvageable meat. Track was a max of 200 yards and probably the fastest we have ever recovered a deer (2 or 3 minutes). Hunter had a perfect shot just no blood.

Congrats on your first archery 9 point public land buck.

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