tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59266343263630714332024-02-07T21:46:00.527-06:00Blood Trail DogsA blog dedicated to helping archery and gun, deer hunters find lost or wounded deer using blood trail dogs.Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-36488026427494225092020-01-22T13:18:00.000-06:002020-01-22T19:34:17.667-06:00Hungry Dogs Hunt<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">A while back, I started a blood trailing track on a large buck with an awesome rack and because it was the hunter's first-ever trophy archery kill, it was kind of special for this young lady below.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">I started the track with my best dog who had found numerous deer through the years and who unbeknown to me had dumped a small metal trash can full of dry dog food the night before, and gorged himself. You can see the belly hanging down in the photo below.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> AFTER a track, on the other hand, when we return to the truck and before I load them up, I feed the dogs heavy. I always keep about 10-15 pounds of dry dog food in the back seat of my truck for feeding after a track because the dogs always know where the next meal is. Should I lose the dog while on track, because I am almost always tracking off-leash, they know where the next meal will happen and they can follow the sound and find their way out of the unfamiliar woods and back to the truck without me looking for them. I ALWAYS blow a horn when I feed them after a track so the dogs associate the horn with food and know when it is feeding time. And a hungry dog will come to the horn if you train them that way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If they get turned around and are lost in the woods and they hear the horn, they know where the truck is and can follow the sound out of the woods. I have had dogs get lost in thunderstorms and heavy downpours and it took a few hours for them to reappear. Now I am guessing most states do not as yet allow trackers to trail wounded deer off-leash like Louisiana and Texas does, but as a rule, it is too dense with vegetation along the Gulf coast to track otherwise. And Louisiana law states that we are to use every means possible to recover any wild game that is shot and lost. And for the record, 'any means possible' includes tracking off-leash in my book!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Back at the house, I buy in bulk and always keep a few hundred pounds of dry dog food in metal trash cans and 55-gallon barrels with metal lids to protect it from the rats and mice. I am a breeder and a trainer and often keep 20-30 dogs at a time. Sometimes the dogs sneak in and get into my bulk supply of dry dog food without my noticing because as a rule, my dog's diet year-round is 80-90% raw meat because I have lived a mile away from a huge slaughterhouse with lots of raw beef meat by-products year-round, for the last 15 years. Below is a 50 lb. block of frozen raw meaty beef bones that I got out of my freezer and Jesse is waiting for it to thaw out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Anyway, back to the track with the experienced dog with the belly full. As it turns out there was a herd of omnivorous wild hogs nearby who were I'm guessing, planning to eat some venison before we arrived and I could hear them in the distance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">If I could hear them, my old dog could smell them and bless his heart, my old tracking dog loves to bay hogs at home in a pen and hunt wild hogs in the woods in the offseason right after deer season closes. I am guessing with his belly full, he was bored with the prospect of tracking a dead deer and was not interested in helping us find someone's dead deer. No that is not fun when there is wild hogs about 40-50 yards away! He wanted some excitement, to go have some for real Catahoula good-time fun and look for trouble with the herd of wild hogs. BTW: you can't make a Catahoula do something if he doesn't want to! They are very hard-headed by nature.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">As a rule, Louisiana Catahoula Curs are year-round working dogs who hunt squirrels, track wounded deer, bay hogs, pen wild cattle, are private property security guards and play with the kids after school. If you don't believe me, then you don't understand Texas and Louisiana Catahoula Curs!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Louisiana Catahoulas are year-round working dogs who need a job, and I suggest if you get one for tracking wounded deer, if at all possible that you keep them busy and hunt squirrels, track wounded deer, bay hogs and pen wild cattle if you can, so the dogs stay busy year-round.</span><br />
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Many people believe training and good breeding is the primary keys to a high functioning working dog, and as true as that is, there is also a major factor in raising a puppy that most people who have not raised a lot of puppies know nothing of, by sheer lack of experience.
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In almost thirty years of breeding Louisiana Catahoulas, I have developed a good gene pool, but there is a lot to proper socialization and mental stimulation that many people cannot seem to understand and usually only accomplish by luck rather than conscious process. For lack of a better term, I try to educate people about the importance of a 'relationship' between the owner and the dog, and you could call it bonding, or socializing. Ideally, that happens naturally when you buy your tracking dog as a puppy.<br />
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This is a relationship built over time, upon mutual respect, appreciation and teamwork.
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Here is the excerpt:
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Mental Conditioning and Training Pups
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“Doing what comes naturally.” That’s the refrain that appeals to every hound owner, myself included. But over the years I’ve come to realize that there’s more involved when you train tracking dogs to find wounded deer.
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I suppose that I was “handicapped” by starting out with Clary, my first tracking dog and the best I have ever owned. It seemed as if Clary was born knowing how to track wounded deer. After a difficult adolescence, she suddenly became a success. All she had to do was patiently educate her somewhat retarded handler.
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Without training Clary tracked and found the first wounded deer on her first opportunity. No blood, except a few drops at the hit site and the deer went 400 yards through open fields. I was tracking for a wildlife official with law enforcement credentials.
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This experience got me started but it also gave me some misleading ideas that required years of experience to wash out of my system. Yes genetics is important (I was a devoted student of the late J. Richard McDuffie), but genetics is not everything. Today I believe that most dogs, and perhaps even the one in a thousand type dogs like Clary, develop even better if they are exposed to early mental conditioning and training.
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So why am I confusing you with these old ideas that I’ve outgrown or expanded? My answer? Because I think I went through a natural process of learning that we all share if we decide to develop a new capability in some of our dogs to track wounded deer.
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Tracking wounded deer is different from other kinds of scent work. Everything depends on staying on the right line and ignoring red hot lines of healthy deer. This is not so simple. Imagine going into a hayfield or food plot at night; it’s filled with healthy deer. But these are of no interest to you and to your tracking dog; instead you want to track a wounded deer that crossed 12 or 24 hours ago. If there was any blood at all, the occasional drops slipped down between the grass blades where you can’t see it. For this situation you need a smart dog, a dog whose brain has been developed to make distinctions. I believe that you can make that dog smarter if you begin early to develop the brain circuitry required to make those distinctions. Some of this does come naturally, and this natural part is a matter of genetics, but extensive research on human babies, at one end, and baby rats at the other end, has shown that learning capacity, the full extent of the brain’s “wiring” also grows in response to stimulation and excitement. If this is true for humans and rats, as fMRI studies and dissections have shown, why wouldn’t it be true for dogs that stand somewhere in between rats and humans?
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Even if you are persuaded that early mental conditioning is worth it, how do you work with pups in your own “Head Start” program? It’s not that easy because a five week-old puppy’s powers of concentration are close to zero. He may have mastered finding his Momma’s teat, but beyond this skill finding the feed pan 10 feet way is about all he can handle. There’s a solution. Now is the time to start keeping and using all those deer livers that you have been leaving in the woods for the coyotes after gutting a deer. At least in my part of the country most deer hunters don’t keep the livers. Maybe they’re worried about cholesterol.
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Even if you like deer liver, I think that it’s worth sacrificing it to the higher cause of mental conditioning young puppies. There is absolutely nothing like the scent of liver for turning on young pups. And child research has shown that the memory grows best when things are learned in a mood of excitement…with the adrenaline pumping. Most pups are fascinated by liver, even more than heart, or muscle meat.
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I attach a length of baler twine to a hole in the raw liver and swing it in front of the pups. They sink their little teeth into it and pull. Then I drag it a few feet, and they follow with their nose and eyes. They grab it and chew again.
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After this you move out on the lawn, out of sight of the pups, and you lay your first liver drag. Mark the beginning well, because there won’t be any visible blood, and then drag the liver 10, 20 or 30 feet, whatever distance you think the pups can handle. Put an angle in it so they will have to change course. Leave the liver at the end. Wait a half hour and then bring in the pups, one or two at a time.
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They may not do very well at first with the scent line but don’t worry. This is not a test or even a training exercise. This is mental conditioning. The puppies are frantic to get to that liver and sink their teeth into it. And in their excitement and desire those brain neurons are growing and networking. The pay-off will come much later.
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It took me thirty years of experimenting to conclude that the liver drag is the best way to stimulate very young pups and introduce them early to the Great Truth that a ground scent line goes from “A” to “B”. You can accomplish this in other ways, but I find that deer liver works best. A dragged deer heart will work, but it does not seem to have the same acrid turn-on scent. A dragged deer leg will work too, but it is bulkier keep in the freezer, and it doesn’t leave as narrow and precise a line of scent.
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In the next stage of development, which becomes training as well as mental conditioning, you will want to shift over to use of deer blood. More about this in a moment. The problem with fresh blood is that all the pups want to do is lick it right at the starting point. They are not as motivated to move out with the line to get to what’s at the end because they are getting good tastes right at the start. In contrast the dragged liver leaves an enduring scent that holds up at puppy level for several hours. I have seen a mature dog track a 24 hour liver line across mowed, wind-swept field with no difficulty at all. Liver has its own magic!
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By eight or ten weeks you can shift over to blood. You will be aging it two to four hours now, so you won’t have the problem of pups hanging up on the line as they stop to lick wet blood. Use a sponge on a stick or a drip bottle and place a drop or a small dab of blood every foot or every yard. Adjust the distance to what you feel the “reaching” capabilities of the pup are at this point.
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For more of this article click here: <a href="http://www.born-to-track.com/our-writing/puppy-training.htm/"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5926634326363071433">www.born-to-track.com</a>Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-57124818777169541542020-01-13T04:48:00.001-06:002020-01-13T04:48:04.542-06:00A Tough Season Pays Off Big | Ep 15 | Hunt with a Henry<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s54XqRexyb8" width="480"></iframe>Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-1821833404340911962019-12-31T16:26:00.002-06:002020-01-02T09:36:58.854-06:00Roy Hindes Documentary<iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="315" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftexas.monthly.magazine%2Fvideos%2F679510172442446%2F&show_text=0&width=560" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="560"></iframe>Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-86302347882467338842019-12-21T07:04:00.000-06:002019-12-21T07:04:20.296-06:00Sarge Had A Close Call<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Attention trackers, we need to start lobbying our legislatures to allow us to carry large caliber sidearms for personal protection. Tracking is a dangerous business.</span><br />
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Sorry, I will try to post more often, but I am in deer season and wilderness areas and I don't have an internet service connection 24/7. I have great photos and will try to catch up with new posts soon.<br />
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Here is my good friend Paul Couget with his red leopard Catahoula Cur blood tracking dog Roux<br />
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Paul tracked this deer in northern Alabama and it had a rack in excess of 100 points.<br />
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Paul is a professional tracker and trainer of blood tracking dogs<br />
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Here is another deer Paul tracked a couple of days before Thanksgiving.<br />
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OK folks that settles it, when I am rich AND famous, I am buying a ranch in northern Alabama.<br />
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Now y'all keep warm, stay dry and be safe. Don't forget to teach the young hunters to always leave the woods cleaner than they found it, and always respect the animals that put the meat on our table.<br />
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I don't know about y'all but I am so blessed and putting more meat in the freezer as a professional blood tracker and having more fun tracking other people's deer than I ever did sitting in a tree.<br />
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Here is the thought for the day: If we let 'them' take our guns, what next? Our Bow and Bowie knife?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Not much blood and no hair. We only found 3 drops that Roux showed to us about 150-200 yards from the hit site.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A few hundred yards further and Roux showed us this 8 point covered with dirt and leaves. I was told that bobcats do that, but had never seen it with my own eyes.</span><br />
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Ten years ago, in my mid-fifties, I retired from hog hunting with dogs and started breeding and training my Louisiana Catahoula Curs to be blood trail dogs. </div>
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When I first started researching the aspects of my new business, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries agents told me that they estimated half the deer shot were not recovered and I was stunned by the meat going to waste. And then I considered all the time wasted by deer hunters tracking and searching for dead or wounded deer without a dog.</div>
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For me, I never wasted time tracking deer or lost and wasted meat, because I always had a dog to help me find a dead or wounded deer if I needed one, because I was a hog hunter, dog breeder and a dog trainer.</div>
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And because I lived on a houseboat in the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp since 1986, my dogs were companionship, hunters and security.</div>
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I have never locked doors on my house, for the last 34 years </div>
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What I didn't realize when I first started training my dogs to track wounded deer was the high genetic prey drive in my dogs made it easy to 'train' them to find wounded or dead deer. I also did not realize my dogs were not only smarter than I had first assumed, but they were also actually smarter than me.</div>
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The photo below is proof of my low IQ</div>
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The evidence of their intelligence is obvious in the photos above as you may notice that the dogs had enough sense to stay in the boat! </div>
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And I know what you are thinking, but that is not a dead alligator as you can see in the photo below.</div>
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The 3 photos above were taken on one of my Louisiana Swamp Tours at Lake Martin</div>
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Ten years ago I was a firm believer in making man-made blood trails and training my dogs year-round like everybody else did and gradually I came to realize the fact that my dogs ate a raw meat diet and had a high prey drive, that all the fuss about training year-round was not applicable to my dogs and that may be in large part due to genetics.</div>
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Below are some of my favorite de al Houssaye's Louisiana Catahoula Curs</div>
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Luke Skywalker a grandson of Patch and Ruby<br />
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Ruby and a puppy in training<br />
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NALC registered C Arrow Patch<br />
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Samuel, a pure-bred wolf with Patch on a training track<br />
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Samuel and Valyrie on the boat ride deep into the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp<br />
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Jessie and Simon<br />
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Valyrie and Samuel last day of deer season in Louisiana in 2014<br />
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As a professional tracker, there is nothing more satisfying in the cool days of October than watching a happy archery hunter drag out a spike buck and put wild-harvest, organic meat on the table for his family on the first day of deer season.<br />
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I am Marcus de la Houssaye and I can be reached by email > catahoula1@gmail.comMarcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-13902004169585858102019-08-24T17:11:00.000-05:002019-09-15T22:24:32.582-05:00Duck Dogs Are Natural Blood Trackers<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For years, I have been trying to convince people with 'duck' dogs that the retriever trained to retrieve ducks could also easily find deer because duck blood smells like deer blood. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Come on, blood smells like blood, whether it comes from a duck or a deer. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">But here is proof from a young dog that was getting it done both ways! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I know there are specific ways to train a blood trailing dog, but let me share what I did. It’s definitely a different approach that’s for sure. I trained my dog to force fetch for bird hunting first. If you don’t know what that is, look it up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I never had intentions of having him blood trail... until a friend shot a deer with a bow and couldn’t find it. I took my dog to the location the deer was shot let him smell and lick the arrow and told him to fetch it up. Well, they had e</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">nough scent on the ground and he had enough common sense to know that I wanted him to go find and get what he was smelling. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He made a perfect 100 yd track straight to the deer on a 12-hour old trail. I skinned that deer and did several drags with the hide over the next week varying the distance from 50 to about 500yds. Each time just pinching off a little hair to hold by his noses for him to smell when I told him to fetch!</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I put a bell on his collar at the beginning of every track. He then associated the bell with tracking and would start searching when the bell was put on him. He never failed me once on a drag. I’d play tug a war with him with the hide when he found it and that was his reward.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> He found 3 deer for friends of mine last year and took us on one track for almost a mile that we found light blood every so often until the deer hit a creek that we couldn’t get across. So I’d say he did allright. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">So I guess what I’m saying here is don’t think your duck dog won’t trail a deer just because it’s never done it before! My dog was 9 months old and never seen a deer in its life when he found his first one. My method of training, in the beginning, was unconventional and accidental but it worked pretty well. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am Marcus de la Houssaye</span><br />
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<span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"> A 4 month old Ladner BMC puppy on his first find</span><br />
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<span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0"><br /></span>
<span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0">At only 4-6 months old, you may be amazed at what a foundation bred southern cur puppy can do for you.</span><br />
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<span aria-live="polite" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; outline: none; width: auto;" tabindex="0">When shopping for a tracking dog, more than the breed, you need to consider foundation-bred genetics. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ten years ago, it was the other way around! We are having a positive effect! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Good show, blood trackers. Keep up the good work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hunting big game without a tracking dog is like hunting ducks without a retriever: Wasteful and STUPID !</span>Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-55295244508461106922019-07-28T16:11:00.000-05:002019-07-28T16:11:12.108-05:00I Don't Care What Anyone Thinks Of Me!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-15047087199394642882019-07-20T03:00:00.001-05:002019-07-20T03:10:29.621-05:00Neuroscientist Studies Dog Emotions with MRI and Concludes “Dogs are People, Too”<a href="https://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/neuroscientist-studies-dog-emotions-mri-concludes-dogs-people/?fbclid=IwAR2CCwv7z_yvzv1VLIydDeAohrc677fV85-DF4Ux0-ZqXOw-j2F5BEqY2HY">https://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/neuroscientist-studies-dog-emotions-mri-concludes-dogs-people/?fbclid=IwAR2CCwv7z_yvzv1VLIydDeAohrc677fV85-DF4Ux0-ZqXOw-j2F5BEqY2HY</a><br />
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<br />Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-24561617820920554242019-07-01T17:44:00.000-05:002019-09-15T23:29:27.415-05:00The Best Time To Train A Blood Tracking Dog<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I have always said the best time to train is during deer season when there is fresh blood on the ground and a dead or wounded deer is somewhere nearby.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> I understood many years ago, that deer season</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is when the rubber really meets the road when it comes to training a pup, started dog or fine-tuning a finished dog, because you will never create a man-made track as complicated, challenging and educational as a wounded buck. And it fascinates me how so many people believe a dog will forget how to track deer if they are not constantly 'worked' or re-trained in the offseason! Come on folks it is kind of like riding a bike, if you got it, you don't lose it!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">An often unknown and critically important element of tracking wounded or dead deer is your ability to verbally control your dog off-leash and call out or call off a dog from the track and possibly save its life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Before you expect high-performance blood trail dog performance or scent track training exercises in the summertime, maybe it is the right time to consider that this is the best time for you to focus and to train for other things that are also equally important during deer season and, in my opinion, all year round and every day. In the offseason stay cool, don't push your dog, and focusing on developing a verbal handle on your dog and reinforce or train what we call checking back. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Even though you may never plan to track off-leash during deer season, you never know when you may need to turn a dog loose or you accidentally drop the leash and have a great need to have a verbal command or verbal handle on your dog in the hunting season or the offseason. Reward your dog for checking back and for coming when called.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Anyway, checking back may be the dog's way of making sure that you are still on track, happy and pleased with the progress. Or maybe to determine that you are keeping up with the dog and on track and following him or her especially if you track off-leash the way we do in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am fascinated by how people want to buy a trained dog and think it is finished when they get it and it will hunt for the new owner just like it did for the man who bonded with it as a puppy, hauled it around, fed it, trained it and hunted it. There is a big mistaken presumption of dog buyers wrongly believing it is a finished dog and it has nothing left to learn. Well Bubba, any dog at any age will get better and better, year after year from learning simply because every track is different. And if I trained it to hunt off-leash like we do in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, you may need to make some adjustments when it gets to Kentucky where it is strictly on leash tracking!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">By being able to call your dog out of a bay with a wild hog, a cow, a wounded buck so you can finish it off or calling them off a track if they are not on a leash could be a life or death situation especially if you are tracking early in the season when the rattlesnakes have not gone into hibernation OR the alligators are still hungry! </span><br />
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Two of the puppies I sold to a rancher in south Texas did not survive to be one year old. Why?<br />
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Because I told him: "Do not put them into harm's way until they are two years old."<br />
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And if you put them in a bay pen, you put them in there to teach them to survive, not to hunt!<br />
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You don't use something that will kill them, and you bay them alone. If they have too much help, they will catch. If they get stupid and make a mistake, the hog will punish them, but he will only teach them to back up and respect a boar hog and not kill them.<br />
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Ironically I did not sell the puppies to be hogdogs, I sold them during deer season to be blood tracking dogs for hunting guides. Turns out these deer hunting guides have a full-time job as cowboys AND have a lot of hogs too. So they get a wild hair to bring the puppies hog hunting with their Plott hounds. Well, they took the puppies hog hunting and ran into a herd of bad ass south Texas Brahma cattle and the puppies got off on baying the cows after the mature Plott Hound hogdogs got going on hogs and ran off without the pups. The pups were all alone and bored and went to baying a large heard of cattle without any experience on cattle or back up to protect them, and the cattle ran them down and stomped the puppies to death!<br />
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I don't train my puppies to hunt, I train them to survive!<br />
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Why don't I train them to hunt? Simple, I don't have to. I BREED them to hunt.<br />
And, because they are well bred and have such a strong 'prey drive', if you don't keep them out of harm's way for two years they have a 90% chance of getting killed.<br />
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Below is a video of three young pups who had never seen a pig in their life. I had three in there to get them started. After that I put them in the pen alone with the hog. Other wise they start getting catchy.<br />
And you do not want a puppy to start catching in the pen, because when they get to the woods on a rank hog, they don't have enough sense to back up and bay, and they catch and get killed.<br />
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If you DO keep them out of harm's way for two years, they have a 90% chance of survival.<br />
And in the wild, a wolf does not leave the pack to go out and hunt on their own until two years old! Why? Because a wolf inherently knows better than to go out on their own without back up when they are too young.<br />
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What makes you think it is any different in a domestic situation?<br />
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Unlike most people, I have used a wolf for hog hunting ...<br />
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And I used the same dog for tracking wounded and dead deer.<br />
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When it came to a blood tracking dog, he was the best running catch dog I had because of speed, a nose, and his sheer size.<br />
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I am not finished wrapping up my story, but I just got called out, so maybe I can come back here later and wrap it up...<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But 1st consider that this is a wild dog and you need to be hard on her! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Establish dominance now, and you should have a lot less challenging behaviour in the future. Now, I don't like to hit a dog because my hands are for affection, not discipline. So I suggest you get a switch or a rolled up newspaper and don't be afraid of passing on her. You should not have to do it for long if she knows you are going to resort to getting physical if she is naughty. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Study wolf behaviour if you can find wolf videos. I am guessing she is part Catahoula, or pointer, but the breed is irrelevant at the moment because the behaviour is really the main issue, not the breed. You were not wrong to hit her in the moment, and she will get over it in time, but she needs to know that you are the boss and will establish boundaries and consistently enforce those boundaries. </span><br />
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It is OK to over dose because Ivermec also works against intestinal parasites at the same time it prevents heart worms. If you live in a southern state of the USA, you live in a parasite rich environment and I don't care if it is an inside dog, you need to worm them once a month minimum. Regarding parasites, my dogs get wormed twice a month. Read on...</div>
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In addition to Ivermec, I recommend Safeguard, Panacur, or Valbazen once a month for intestinal parasites. And what is so great about Valbazen is it kills liver flukes. And if you have a blood tracking dog, and you are training with deer liver, you are risking your dogs life, if you DON'T use Valbazen! </div>
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And I like to dose Ivermec and two weeks later, Panacur, then two weeks later, Ivermec, and two weeks later, Panacur. I do it on the weekends and I don't keep a written record, because I do it every other weekend 12 months a year. </div>
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If you live in the Rocky mountains or the west coast you can proberbly get by worming your dog twice a year, and think I am over medicating my dog. But here along the Gulf coast and especially all the southern states, based upon my experience and watching other people learn the hard way, we don't worm our dogs enough.<br />
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Below is my email to a very satisfied customer from south Texas who bought a tracking dog a year ago as a puppy and got her spayed at the beginning of the season in November 2018, at his veterinarians advise. I tried to explain to him why he should wait, but he wanted to 'get it done'. Even justified his plan based upon the presumption that he would 'need' her to track in January and didn't want her coming in heat and not being a 'good' tracker. But bear in mind he already had a great tracking dog, and the puppy was a back up for the future. In the end he didn't use a tracking dog one time this past season! </div>
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Email to Carlos regarding Lizzie's heritage 4/5/2019</div>
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handling blood tracking dogs.10 years ago most people did not have tracking
dogs. But today,... If we are tracking day or nite, on a management area, or on
OR off leash, we should be allowed to carry a large caliber side arm or better
yet, a youth size single shot 20 gauge shot gun loaded with buck shot for
protection of our dogs, personal self-defense, and to end the deer’s suffering!
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I urge everyone to seek out and find the orange
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water. Mine is made by Remington. These are made for waterfowl/duck retrievers,
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You can also go to an upholstery shop and sew on additional closed cell
floatation on the inside the vest. Notice the enlarged rectangle on the topside
of the vest. That is 'extra' floatation I added for safety and helps keep the
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In 1986, I built a houseboat and moved into the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp<br />
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This is a view of my front yard...<br />
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I live, work, and play on the water.<br />
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I am a Louisiana swamp tour guide, and I am not prone to falling into the water.<br />
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As you can see below, I almost always drive standing up. It is a Louisiana swamp people thing.<br />
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Please don't do as I do, do as I say: Sit down and put on personal floatation!<br />
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As you can see, I am not afraid of the water, but I didn't get old for being stupid either!<br />
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OK, at Academy Sports and Outdoors, I found a neoprene stocking foot wader that goes all the way up to my arm pits for me while tracking or boating in freezing weather and I put a large heavy duty 3 strap watersking vest on top of the waders. If I have to hit the water on purpose to swim a river, and follow the dogs while tracking, or if I have to save a dog from drowning, or I accidentially go under because of a slip or boating mishap, I will most likely not drown and definately, I have a fighting chance of surviving hypothermia.<br />
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If you hit the water in 30-40 degree weather, and you can't take off the wet clothes, and warm up right away, you have about a 90% chance of dying from hypothermia!<br />
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Sorry I don't have a photo yet of me dressed up this way with the waders or my neoprene wet suit visable, but because I wear it under my camo hunting clothes and orange or I am usually behind the camera or busy with tracking for my customers. it is, what it is.<br />
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I am Marcus de la Houssaye and I can be reached @ 337 298 2630 or 337 704 6330.<br />
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I am writing a book and not answering my phone much, so you can email me: catahoula1@gmail.comMarcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-38179108896913788562019-01-26T01:26:00.000-06:002019-09-15T14:52:55.041-05:00The Legend of Woodrow RIP<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
First and foremost my condolences to Ammon McKinney and family!! </div>
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Many of you don't know about this superhero of a tracking dog. </div>
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Woodrow was a 'superman' when it comes to tracking deer and baying up wounded ones!! </div>
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I know Woodrow has 1,000's of fans, however, I must admit I'm ranked up there with the #1 fans.</div>
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Woodrow is no longer with us anymore as he passed away doing what he loved!! </div>
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When we come to help deer hunters, unfortunately, that maybe our dogs last time doing what they love!! </div>
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Especially in the states where you can track off-leash, the risk is astronomical!!</div>
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Woodrow, you are legendary!!!</div>
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I'll miss you and I know everyone else will too...<br />
Thanks for the ride, and helping hundreds of hunters!! </div>
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What's is an ideal dog's life? It is all about having a job and a purpose!!</div>
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Below is Ammon's post that he published today!!!</div>
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This story is the last of all the stories shared by me about my little, not so sweet, fearless, heroic, stubborn, hard headed, amazing dog named Woodrow.</div>
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When I got Woodrow, it was for the sole purpose of being a deer tracking dog. I got him in hopes that he would find my deer in the case I shot one and couldn’t find it. He was not to be a family pet. He was mine, and I was his. We had a great bond. The others in the family?? Ehhh, not so much.<br />
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I had my battles with him personally. Sometimes he needed reminding of who’s sack was bigger, because I assure you, that he thought his were, most of the time.<br />
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I had no idea what was in store for us both.</div>
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At first, Woodrow was just supposed to find the deer that I shot. Because I needed him to learn, and because I wasn’t shooting deer every day, I made it known to the public that I wanted to bring my dog as a last resort, so he could get experience and maybe help find their deer that they couldn’t locate and recover. Slowly the word got out. I grew with Woodrow during the first two seasons so much. Halfway through the third season I realized that I wasn’t learning as much anymore, but that he was skyrocketing in his ability. On many occasions, he found deer that even left me in awe and totally surprised in how he found them.</div>
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One of the things that made Woodrow so special was what he did in spite of his size. If you never got to see Woodrow in action, then you have missed a cool spectacle. A real sight to behold.</div>
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Woodrow did more than just find deer. He battled them. Fiercely.</div>
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I often told people that Woodrow would rather the deer be alive when he found them as opposed to being dead. Sometimes he would find a dead deer, sit for a minute, and then come back to me before I reached him. He would have this look on his face as if to say, “Uhh nothing to see over there. Just a dead deer. I don't care about it.” I would tell him to go and find my deer and he’d just look at me like, “I already did. Now what?”</div>
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Woodrow recovered 118 deer in his life. He “found” countless others that were not injured bad enough for them to fight him. 49 of those were killed after he found them alive. He would run circles around them and bark.<br />
If they ran, so did he. Sometimes he’d catch up and bite them and hold on to the rear legs to get them to stop. I saw him bite and hold on to their heads and they would pick him up and sling him around like a dragon trying to sling off a warrior on its head. He had no fear. Ever.</div>
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It’s easy to look back and say “this or that could have been done”, but that’s the easy way out. Life happens. While this hurts me deeply, I know that there are worse things in life that could happen.<br />
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He made me and so many others so happy. I know that he absolutely loved tracking deer. He took me all over Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and even parts of Mississippi.</div>
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I slept in my truck in gas station parking lots, and even the Hardee’s in Jasper on more than one occasion, all after a long night of tracking many deer. He made me lie to my wife, on more than one occasion. </div>
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She’d make me promise to not go tracking on a given day, and somebody would call. I’d answer with a hello and the person would respond with something like, “Is this the guy that owns Woodrow?” When they were close enough I’d slip out with Woodrow, go find their deer, and come back. </div>
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Early on, not many people knew about Woodrow. In time, his reputation was earned. </div>
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After recovering a deer when Woodrow had to go in a phone booth and come out with a cape and mask on and fight the deer to the death, some of my favorite compliments were:<br />
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~“Man, I gotta tell ya, when he jumped out of the car, I was thinking, Ok, now the real dog is about to come out.”<br />
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~ “Man when I saw him jump out of the car I thought you just brought your girlfriend’s dog or something.”<br />
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~ “I figured he could track, but I had no idea he was gonna do what he just did!”<br />
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Woodrow finally met his match as he chased after a big buck under a full moon sky.<br />
He found the deer, bayed him, and the deer broke and fled. Woodrow gave chase and unbeknown to anybody he followed the deer into some water that ended up being deeper than he could stand in. </div>
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After all the fights I witnessed, where the deer that would tackle him to the ground, or charge while he evaded and took their best shots, I feared that one day, it would not be good if he got into deep water. And so it was.</div>
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I'm so grateful to all those in the beginning, who took a chance with me and let him come and try to find their deer. </div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">To quote him and Rick, they are busier than a one legged man in a kicking contest!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Also... please do not waste his time calling him and window shopping. </span></span><br />
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Marcus de la Houssayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08397656387385012319noreply@blogger.com0Tilden, TX 78072, USA28.4615079 -98.54937849999998928.4475479 -98.569548499999982 28.4754679 -98.5292085tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5926634326363071433.post-63679009484082512222018-12-23T11:23:00.000-06:002018-12-27T21:38:05.768-06:00"Just a Dog" <div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Just a dog?</div>
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“From time to time, people tell me, "lighten up, it's just a dog,"<br />
or "that's a lot of money for just a dog."<br />
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de la Houssaye's Jesse James @ about 6 months old</div>
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They don't understand the distance traveled, the time spent, or the costs involved for "just a dog."<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Some of my proudest moments have come about with "just a dog." </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Many hours have passed and my only company was "just a dog," but I did not once feel slighted.</span><br />
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Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by "just a dog," and in those days of darkness, the gentle touch of "just a dog" gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day.<br />
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If you, too, think it's "just a dog," then you will probably understand phrases like "just a friend," "just a sunrise," or "just a promise."<br />
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"Just a dog" brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust, and pure and unbridled joy.<br />
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"Just a dog" brings out the compassion and patience that makes me a better person.</div>
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Because of "just a dog," I will rise early, take long rides and look longingly to the future.<br />
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So for me and folks like me, it's not "just a dog" but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment.</div>
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I hope that someday they can understand that it's not "just a dog," but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being "just a man."<br />
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So the next time you hear the phrase "just a dog," just smile,<br />
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I have been moving from south Louisiana and it has been a while since I published a post, </div>
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Above is a 6 month old de la Houssaye's Catahoula who found 3 deer on her first weekend ever hunting in October 2017. She was born after the deer season closed, ate raw beef meat as a main part of her diet, and was trained by me, Marcus de la Houssaye in my blood trail dog training facility in south Louisiana. Although I trained her off leash at my facility, because she was purchased so young, she transitioned right into being handled on leash as that was a hunting club rule where she went to.<br />
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Notice the green light on her dog collar to aid in finding the dog at night, should you go 'off leash'<br />
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Above is a Louisiana Catahoula puppy out of my blood line from the past<br />
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For 10 years now, I have been engaged in studying, breeding, training and selling blood tracking dogs. Like with cow dogs, hog dogs, bird dogs and all other working dogs in general, the majority of buyers who come looking for a tracking dog, are only interested in and want finished dogs.<br />
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However much that seems the easiest and quickest route to getting a high performance dog to work for you, nothing could be further from the truth!<br />
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Why? Primarily because dogs are neauvophobic which means that they are shy or scared of anything new.<br />
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A finished dog usually needs a a few weeks or even months to warm up to a new owner and many are one man dogs who will never be the same with a new owner as they were with the man who raised 'em up from a puppy.<br />
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For instance a new scent, sound, location or person(such as a dog buyer) can cause a dog to get very sensitive and not be 'themselves' and then freeze up and not work for you.<br />
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If you are a working cowboy, I am preaching to the choir, because the same thing applies to horses when around someone new. And cowboys know this from real life experience.<br />
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So based upon my experiences, for 10 years now, 95% of the people who have come to buy tracking dogs don't understand that the 'best' way to go, is to buy a well bred, high performance, genetically predisposed, high prey drive PUPPY and raise it up AND TRAIN IT YOURSELF.<br />
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Valyrie, a great grand daughter of NALC registered Blairs Diamond Cutter<br />
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Ohhh, I know the concern is that it won't work this season and we are now full on in the deer hunting season for 2018/2019 so we need a trained and experienced blood trailing dog that will find deer now.<br />
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The Catahoula puppy above was trained by me and was running 500-600 yard tracks and finding lost deer the first year she hunted and it was not even six months old!</div>
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Here she is guarding 'her' first deer after the find!</div>
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Robert Miller of Michigan Blood Trackers and his Dachsund Sypris who together have found hundreds of wounded and dead deer in the midwest.</div>
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OK, I feel your pain, but a well trained, well behaved, and 'experienced' dog FOR SALE is not something that is easy to find! The reality is that most people who breed and train tracking dogs are not selling finished dogs, they are selling puppies.<br />
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They are hunting experienced dogs, NOT SELLING EM! What they are likely selling if in the business of selling dogs are started puppies up to 2 years old.<br />
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Just think about it: how many 'for real', during the deer season, blood tracking experiences can a trainer put a puppy on and give that dog credit for finding X number of wounded or dead deer in any given deer hunting season?<br />
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One thing I have noticed is that potential buyers want a dog that has found a lot of deer on its own. And they want to know how many? Who is counting? They want experience and I understand why, but once again how common is a great dog like that offered for sale?<br />
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All this leads to my conclusion that what needs to be trained is 'the people' not the dogs! So I am available for consultation for a fee to help you get up to speed and train your dog, or help you track and learn how to handle your dog. It appears to me that many people who want to buy a trained dog, don't know how to 'handle' it when they get it. I am Marcus and can be reached by email: catahoula1@gmail.com.<br />
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I have been doing free consultation for too long! Hire me and you may be surprized at what I can share over the phone.<br />
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A well-bred, experienced, trained tracking dog is not something that you can buy like a machine that you can flip a switch and it instantly work for you. It is a living being who is loyal and needs to be a part of the 'team' or 'family' and have the heart or 'desire, to serve you and help put meat on the table.<br />
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To quote my girlfriend who is a certified NALC breeder of Louisiana Catahoulas: "People are too civilized." And what she means is that we have become too computerized and mechanized and do not depend upon working animals like horses and dogs that are born and raised on ranches and farms, like it was when we grew up 50 years ago and beyond.<br />
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How many people are actually still in the saddle today @ 74 years old like my good friend "Doc" below?<br />
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Today we have tractors, trucks, ATVs, air conditioners, computers, GPS, and many other great conviences that have removed common sense from practical working animal applications and caused a vast majority of us and potential dog buyers to think that the 'best' and safest way to get a 'good' dog is to buy a finished dog.<br />
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And all I got to say to that is: "Good luck folks!"<br />
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I am Marcus de la Houssaye and I am available for consultation and can be reached by email<br />
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The subject of 'How to' train a tracking dog has as many variables as there are people and dogs. But training may do more to create a bond that motivates the dog to please you and ultimately help you find your deer, more than actually 'teach' the dog how to track. Why? Because well breed natural hunters like Catahoula and Blue Lacy, will hunt for food if they are hungry and... we are inferior trackers compared to dogs, in that we desperately need their help after 24 hours or more, after it rains, if there is no blood because the deer is bleeding internally, or worse: if the deer crossed water! All four scenarios most likely will stop us in our tracks, cause us to waste a lot of time, and walk around in circles hoping we luck out and stumble across the deer, and we will be lucky to actually find the deer anytime soon.Unless we have a dog!<br />
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It has been an interesting week, starting with Albert calling me about ‘problems’ he was having training a Blue Lacy to track. The Blue Lacy is a cur and is closely related to the Catahoula as breeds go. The Blue Lacy is the state dog of Texas, just like the Catahoula is the state dog of Louisiana. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The 2 photos below are compliments of Roy Hindes<br />
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The 2 photos above and below is Roy Hinds (in the black hat) with an awesome Blue Lacy<br />
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Here is a link to John's website about Roy and his Blue Lacy tracking dogs:<br />
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Albert told me that his dog was starting to run or 'hunt‘ rabbits
when in training. I asked “What is the dog’s experience with tracking deer?”
And the man told me that he never tracked a wounded deer with the dog, but had only “trained”
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This one phone call got me to thinking about the emphasis
hunters, trainers and trackers put on training with man-made blood trails and I
began to see that training is everything in most people’s mind. Much like
someone wanting to buy a finished dog because in their mind experience is everything and many people shopping for a tracking dog and having no experience to base their purchase on and are guessing a finished dog is the best way to go.<br />
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When I started
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too many people were over-complicating the training process by focusing on
tarsal gland or interdigital gland training. And the result of that has been several people calling me this year to get 'another' dog because their dog was trained specifically
to track bucks only using the tarsal and or interdigital gland method and now it will only track bucks. Duhhhh!<br />
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I recall all the blood
trail dog propaganda years ago being presented by a local blood trail dog association about a dog knowing if a deer was mortally
wounded OR NOT by the smell of the interdigital gland which is located between
a deer’s toes. . Here is the theory: If a deer is mortally wounded, it gives
off a different scent through the interdigital gland, than one that is not mortally
wounded. And… an experienced and well trained dogs knows it.<br />
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OK, how can you
‘prove’ that theory? Ask the dog? Of course we can’t get a verbal confirmation
of that so we must base that judgement upon the dog’s body language and
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So here is my observation: A professional tracker and his
dog was 0 for 4 at a local hunting club that was located near the tracker. Four
times in a row he was called in the first month of archery season here in
Louisiana to track a deer and the dog couldn’t find it. A member of the club later called me looking to buy a tracking dog for their hunting club because they
were not calling the ‘other’ tracker anymore due to a lack of performance.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In short, the professional tracker excused his dog for ‘not
tracking’ due to the dog knowing it was not a mortal wound due to the
interdigital gland 'theory'. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Well on two occasions of the four, the next day after the
tracker came out, the deer hunters went out to the blood trail at the crack of
dawn and looked for the deer and found it without a dog. One of the deer was about 60 yards
from where the dog stopped tracking, and the other was about 100 yards away from
the point of last blood. And on the latter, the dog wound not track at all. He just ran around and played with the hunters.<br />
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folks this is a dog that had found many a deer in his day and had been tracking
for many years successfully. OK, well bred, well trained, and well experienced,
so why wouldn’t the dog hunt?<br />
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Above is Rob Miller and his dachshund Sypris who has found several hundred recoveries in Michigan and Ohio.<br />
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If you need tracking services, Robert can be reached by cell phone @ 810 240 4891<br />
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Based upon my personal experience, my best guess
is that the dog was over fed. Always remember the common sense wisdom of the
old timers: “Hungry dogs hunt!” Also, consider that the tracker was a member of
an association at the time that was hung up on the interdigital gland theory
and was using that to make unwarranted excuses for the dog.<o:p></o:p><br />
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My guess is the dog was so over fed on a regular basis that
he perhaps wouldn’t hunt on a regular basis and it is not the dogs fault!
Proper handling while actually tracking may be more important than early
training because if the dog is a genetically predisposed 'natural', they may not need to be trained to the degree that most people believe.<o:p></o:p><br />
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And I believe the diet factors are more critical than the training and I feed my dogs raw beef when it is not deer season as you can see below.<br />
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I also like to supplement that with road kill as often as possible, as you can see below.<br />
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I am not opposed to using man made tracks to train puppies but the real blood trail dog training occurs during deer season unless you have does that need to be culled during the off season and have doe tags to that effect.<br />
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Starting in 2018, I will be moving into a 13,000 acre high fence trophy ranch and training my pups on culled does in the off season and eradicating the wild hog population on the ranch.<br />
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I am Marcus de la Houssaye and I breed and train Louisiana Catahoulas.<br />
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I can be reached at 337 298 2630 if you are interested in buying a puppy or started dog or have questions about training one.<br />
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