Lowjack
Senior Member
What would Blood trailing dog be worth ? , 2 years old beagle has found many deers,
Not sure what a blood tracking dog is worth....last weekend I went to North Tenn. to pick up another Plott hound puppy. Total money spent including the pup was $740.00, took him (pup) to the Vet the following Monday and spent another $100.00 for shots. By the time he gets 8 months I will have over $1000.00. And by the time he gets pretty good (hopefully in two years) I`ll have a bunch of money in him. It takes a lot of time to train one. One of my new pups is 7 months and the other is 2 months....today I paid $250.00 for a small upright freezer at sears...that's to save deer legs, livers and hides. I will be picking up legs this weekend hopefully, then I have to get em ready to store in freezer for training until next season. Now to what a blood tracking dog is worth....I have 3 trained dogs in my kennel and I would not take $2500.00 for any one of them. These dogs are part of me and I`ll spend what ever it takes to take care of all of them. With the two new pups it will take a lot to get em where they need to be, in three years hopefully they will be where they need to be. One thing about a tracking dog you don`t won`t to go to help find a deer for a hunter if you don`t have a dog that will track...when the blood stops that's where a good dog will earn his keep.
its priceless to a man that lost a trail and the dog goes in and does like it should!!!...im sure you could recover some cost but im sure the reaction when the hunter puts his hands on a deer the dog found is gonna be the biggest reward!!
I would think that the question of value would be difficult at best to determine.
A fully trained blood dog has 2-3 years of work invested in it along with potentially thousands invested in purchase, vet bills and training aids/time. Of course I am speaking of blood dogs that can run cold lines of 24-48 hours old with little difficulty. When you ad in the crazy passion these guys (myself included) have for their dogs, I am not sure you could get enough money together to buy one. Personally $15 grand would not even get a consideration from me for my Bavarian.
Come to think of it I can't remember ever seeing a quality, fully trained blood dog for sale. Their handlers just would never part with them at any price.
Having said that, a dog that has "found some deer" is a totally different story. Still, it is difficult to put a price on any dog without seeing them work a blood line, looking at pedigree/health records and a few other factors.
Sorry, not a short $ answer on this one IMO.