I Am In A Wilderness Area With No Internet Or Cell Service

OK, it is deer season and I am loving it and not spending much time on blogger.

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.

Here is my good friend Paul Couget with his red leopard Catahoula Cur blood tracking dog Roux
and what is forecast to be the new world record whitetail deer.

Paul tracked this deer in northern Alabama and it had a rack in excess of 100 points.

Paul is a professional tracker and trainer of blood tracking dogs
 and he is near New Orleans, La. and can be reached at 504 250 7456

I am practising using a drone camera in anticipation of producing my new TV show next year

I will try to post an aerial video as asap.

In the meantime check out these Catahoula Cur puppies who never seen a hog until this day.

Here is another deer Paul tracked a couple of days before Thanksgiving.

OK folks that settles it, when I am rich AND famous, I am buying a ranch in northern Alabama.

Any questions?

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.

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.

Here is the thought for the day: If we let 'them' take our guns, what next? Our Bow and Bowie knife?

You want it? Take it!

I am Marcus de la Houssaye and you can contact me by email; catahoula1@gmail.com

Sorry, I don't want to answer a cell phone during deer season if I can help it.

Don't forget...

Come on smile...

Cat Covered 8 Point Buck With Leaves

I am sure a lot of people will not believe this with so much FAKE NEWS in circulation these days. 

This was a cool track for a good friend only about a 10 mile drive each way.

Not much blood and no hair. We only found 3 drops that Roux showed to us                                          about 150-200 yards from the hit site.

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.
It’s a good feeling when you recover for a friend.



A couple of days earlier and Roux found this 45 + point record-setting Alabama buck.

And the next day Roux found this world record Alabama buck below

I confess that I am writing a book and developing a TV show for next year and neglecting my posts on this blog. I will try to put up more new pictures and some stories as the season is peaking all around the country.

The Right Genetics Is More Important Than Proper Training

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. 

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.

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.

And because I lived on a houseboat in the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp since 1986, my dogs were companionship, hunters and security.

I have never locked doors on my house, for the last 34 years 

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.

The photo below is proof of my low IQ

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! 

And I know what you are thinking, but that is not a dead alligator as you can see in the photo below.

The 3 photos above were taken on one of my Louisiana Swamp Tours at Lake Martin

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.

Below are some of my favorite de al Houssaye's Louisiana Catahoula Curs

Luke Skywalker a grandson of Patch and Ruby

Ruby and a puppy in training

NALC registered C Arrow Patch

Samuel, a pure-bred wolf with Patch on a training track

Samuel and Valyrie on the boat ride deep into the Atchafalaya Basin Swamp

Jessie and Simon

Valyrie and Samuel last day of deer season in Louisiana in 2014

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.

I am Marcus de la Houssaye and I can be reached by email > catahoula1@gmail.com