I purchased a Bluetick beagle 2 1/2 years ago been training him to blood trail and he’s now come around. I can take out a drag and not even take them there to show him lately. He’s been working the trail out himself, but my only problem is, he will not bark so I put a cowbell on him so I know where he’s at. Anybody with any suggestions on how to get him to bark? There was an article that said, tease him till he gets aggravated then he will start barking and give him some treats. Tell him that he’s doing a good job. If this doesn’t work, I guess I’ll live with it but I do know he can trail a deer that’s been wounded.
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Blood trailing dogs
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coastga
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I have a dachshund/beagle mix that will not bark when trailing a wounded deer. He now is 12 years old and I never was able to get him to bark while traililng. When he is not trailing, he is barking all the time
That is the same with him when I come home from work he is the loudest dog on the block can’t figure this out, but I love him. It brings me so much joy when he can work a drag he is still young and he’s only two years and seven months old, I’ve taken him to the woods since he was a puppy and showed him deer that were killed
specialk
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some of the other dog men will chime in but i think that is instinctive. maybe run him with some other dogs thats barking just a time or two and see how he does....also if you turn him of leash during kill season i would highly recommend a tracking system either way....
Gator89
Senior Member
Definitely need a tracking collar.
Raylander
I’m Billy’s Useles Uncle.
Preface:
I am not a blood trailing expert
Question:
Do y’all cut em loose to trail or keep em on a lead?
I think it would be better to keep them on a long lead or check cord. I understand that makes for challenges concerning brush, etc.
My reasoning for this is that I want to see what the dog sees. Specifically, I do not want the dog to arrive at the injured/dead game without me. The dog could bump an injured animal many times without the handler knowing if he is off lead
Again, I am no expert so I may be way off base here
A walker beagle cross would bark most likely. The important think and I bet he would bark if it jumped up. May want to have a hide tied to a long rope. As he gets to it take off with it. See if he barks. Have someone pulling while your there and tell him to get it. Excited like.
A tracking device is a must. When it gets to it. The tracking device will show u he’s at it when dead. A cowbell is good also.
My lab barked when a wounded one was getting up.
GL
A tracking device is a must. When it gets to it. The tracking device will show u he’s at it when dead. A cowbell is good also.
My lab barked when a wounded one was getting up.
GL
I don’t know what the law is in Georgia, but I’ve had him on a lead and he gets all hung up so I figured it’s better to let him go by himself and he works better. We are really behind them probably 20 to 30 yards when we can keep up with him he’s not a fast tracking dog, it’s always all the bushes that’s in your way. I think he works better when he’s not on that lead we’re pressuring him.
My old lab. Her last track. She was a great one. She knew why she was there and did her job. She was so strong on a leash u got drug. Off the leash she was fast to it. She would come back and get u and take u to it. 
My 7 yo now she’s good not quite like the older one. Took her to this one it was hours after the shot. They looked. Only a speck of blood. What they smell we can’t see. She trotted straight to it. Approached from behind smelling. She has the main job now. Made a kid happy.
My 7 yo now she’s good not quite like the older one. Took her to this one it was hours after the shot. They looked. Only a speck of blood. What they smell we can’t see. She trotted straight to it. Approached from behind smelling. She has the main job now. Made a kid happy.
I think WMAs would need a leash.
specialk
Senior Member
the guy i know does the exact same thing, uses a little 20lb toy dog, not even hunting stock...25ft check cord and drags him thru some nasty stuff....he uses a tracker and sometimes will cut him loose but normally keeps him lleashed....
okay. Yes I agree about finding little blood shot 2 years ago the deer hit the ground instantly and started thrashing around, of course in my celebration getting my uhmuu together the deer ran off little did I know when I got down there? There was only a few specs of blood. I believe if I would’ve had a dog that had a nose, we might have recovered it who knows that’s hunting right have to deal with the good and bad but this year I feel a lot more confident.
Hillbilly stalker
Senior Member
If you have a tracking collar made by Garmin, you can set it to where it beeps when the dog trees or points. I would set it to point. To get the dog to bark it’s best to teach that first when they are a young pup with treats, I know you’re kinda past that, but it’s a good thing to remember. What I would try if I was you is to run a track you have laid, not a super long one, when the dog finds the deer , tie the dog back and drag the deer off a little. He will likely get excited enough combined with being restrained that he will cut loose barking or bawling. The challenge you have here is teaching a tree dog to bay game. It’s against his nature and breeding, but he can do it. If that doesn’t work, run another track and you hold the dog back while someone else drags the deer off, you need to be hissing him on to raise his level of stimulation eliciting a bark. You mite have to work at it a little but I betcha can get it done. You should be able to run him on a 30 foot lead, we always tied a knot about 5 foot from the end so when your feeding him line…..you can tell without looking that the end of the line is coming up, you can drop the line at anytime and pick it back up.
Raylander
I’m Billy’s Useles Uncle.
Understood.
My last dog would do anything you asked him too. But he didn’t bark much either. I reckon some of them are just more about work than show’n off
I hope you find 100 this year. Good luck
Find some deer 1st you have shot. Then go get him. In the beginning I did that. My lab was so fast pulling me she would run the deer over and keep going for a few seconds. Then regroup to find it.
