I have a dog that I carried with me several years ago. He is a tracking dog who tracked down his first deer when he was a puppy. I always hunted from a tree and tied him up at the base of the tree. When I would shoot a deer he would have a fit wanting to go find it. Most fell within sight but I would turn him loose and let him find it. He really enjoyed that. He did have to track down several and is very good at it. He is brown just like a deer and large(100+ pounds) so he always wore an orange vest. I think I got the vest on e-bay. He is also good at finding rattlesnakes and thieves(2).