Blood Trail Dogs

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Blood Tracking Dogs For Sale 2016 Hunting Season 337 298 2630

Hi, I am Marcus de la Houssaye,

I operate a blood trail dog training facility in south Louisiana,

I usually work with several dogs at a time because dogs are social creatures just like us.

And as you can see below, I also work with a pack at times... and

I breed Louisiana Catahoulas

It is so nice to see satisfied customers coming back for more and bringing me an opportunity to see where my breeding program is going...

Below is an 8 month old out of 2 dogs I sold a customer a few years ago.

Below is a son of Curlytail and Cutty Dark and demonstrates how breeding solid color dogs can produce amazing color and perfect balance to prevent too much white.

Below is Cutty Dark a grandson of 2 Diamonds Cutter, and the father to the puppy above

and here here is C Arrow Patch, the pups great grandfather on da moma's side.

Below is the mother to the pup above.

In the photo below, you can see how I engage puppies early on in the smells and activities of deer hunting... and yes that is a lot of blood for a tracking exercise, but I had just skinned and had a lot of bloody wash water to work with. So I would make trails and blood dumps along the way..

I then went and turned out a bunch of puppies who were not in the skinning shed and we walked around the yard and into the woods and visited these blood dumps, and blood trails, and find pieces of deer feet, bones and skin hidden in the bushes...

Accompanying us on training excersizes would be some of my veteran trackers as seen below

The point I want to make here is that training a dog to track blood is good in the off season because it allows the dog to go do things and be busy and run and play in the woods, just being a dog.

But the real training of a blood tracking dog comes during hunting season when there is blood on the ground and that is where the rubber meets the road because you will never in the off season create training exercizes that teaches your dog as much as a wounded deer will during deer season.

Now I know some people object to having a dog in the woods during hunting season because you think all breeds are like hound dogs that go for miles, but a good tracking dog should be short range and check back if you are working them off leash.

And Catahoulas are not hounds they are cur dogs which means they are like a bird dog, and relatively short range. Given time they learn to make sure you are on track.

to be continued...

Monday, January 25, 2016

Cookie, a three year old grand daughter of C Arrow Patch and Ruby

I have some requests for finished and started dogs so I will start here...

I am new with this computer camera, but looks good so far..

I just checked the comments and someone wants me to tell them about Cookie, and my response: Call me at 337 298 2630, and I will be glad to tell you about her.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Molly's First Deer

It is not uncommon for a Catahoula to guard the kill until it's master gets there, as you can see below,

Molly was doing just that when the hunter who shot the deer got there, and she almost bit him!

Above is Molly on her first hard to find buck, and guess what:
the deer was only about 50 yards from the point of last blood!

It was none the less hard to find because the hunters were looking everywhere the deer was NOT!

Problem was, the hunter saw ANOTHER deer running off after he shot the buck and swore he saw HIS deer running off to the east and his deer was actually about 50 yrds WEST of the point of last blood! AND NO ONE WAS LOOKING OVER THERE UNTIL MOLLY GOT THERE!

But... Molly went right to it!

Why did she go right to it?

Most likely because she was BORN IN A BLOOD TRAIL DOG TRAINING FACILITY, and bred to hunt, not trained, and she ate raw venison for her first taste of solid food @ 4 wks, and she was always in the skinning shed when the blood tracking was done, and she got some of the lickings!