The author works with his dog Levee on a 30-foot lead. In many states, tracking dogs must be kept on a leash. Hollis Bennett. Why Regulations for Blood Tracking Dogs Vary ...

Photos have been posted on the Blood Trailing Network Facebook page of blood tracking dogs in hot pursuit of fleeing deer. If that happens in a zone that is not open to running deer with dogs, ...

California vowed to shut down colonies where hundreds of captive dogs supply blood for veterinary care. But blood from the closed colonies is still crucial for saving lives.

Casey Sheckels, left, and his son, Colton, 6, manage to get Mae, the walker, to sit during the Blood Tracking Dogs of Southern Maryland’s Sept. 14 deer and wildlife event at Tractor Supply ...

Participating dogs come for blood collection once every two to three months. The program is voluntary, but in exchange for donating, the dogs receive free annual lab work, free urgent care visits ...

Act 272, sponsored by Rep. Jason Dewitt (R-La.), would allow a licensed hunter to find a deer that was legally shot and wounded using lights, blood trails or a tracking dog.

Act 272 allows a licensed hunter or tracker to pursue a deer that was legally shot and mortally wounded, to utilize lights and a blood-trailing or tracking dog, and then dispatch the deer with a ...

Sometimes they fight the tracking dogs. Dogs tangling with a live deer is a chaotic situation. Dog handlers do not want the hunter involved with this part of the recovery for safety reasons.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill into law that changes restrictions for dogs tracking wounded game. Act 272, sponsored by Rep. Jason Dewitt (R-La.), would allow a ...