FC Attila von Moosbach-Zuzelek, SchwhK, SchwhK/F, Vp, Schussf, Wa-T, BHP-G ....nicknamed after Fred and answers to Bear
	Bear is a 3 1/2 year old standard wirehaired dachshund bred by John and Jolanta Jeanneney in New York State. John has been breeding and blood tracking with wires  for about 40 years now, and was one of the co-founders of Deer Search. He is the author of the book Tracking Dogs For Finding Wounded Deer, which is the first book on the subject to be published in English. For anyone interested in blood tracking with dogs, this is the place to start. John and Jolanta's dogs are bred primarily from German hunting lines following the international FCI breed standard. The Jeanneney's von Moosbach-Zuzelek kennel consistently produces excellent hunters and trackers, and their dogs run extremely well in the AKC brace-on-rabbit field trials year after year. The Jeanneneys believe in imprinting their blood tracking dogs from an early age, and Bear ran his first simple scent tracks when he was just a few weeks old. When he was a year old he became an AKC Field Champion finishing with two 1sts and a 2nd in his first four trials. Since then, Bear has passed the Deutscher Teckelklub (DTK) blood tracking tests for the 600 meter, the 20hr 1000 meter, and the 1000 meter Fahrtenschuh. Bear and Andy Bensing's Arno both passed the Fahrtenschuh tests on the same day with Prize I scores, becoming the first dogs in North America to pass this test. Bear has also passed the Vpo-Sp with a Prize I (Hunting Versatility with Spurlaut), the Wa-T (Water Retrieve), the BHP-G (Combined Obedience) and the Schussf (Gun-Shyness) tests. At the 2004 NATC Zuchtschau, Bear was rated for conformation with a Sehr Gut (Very Good) and he has a clear CERF exam. Bear is registered with both the DTK and the AKC as Attila von Moosbach-Zuzelek. On natural deer lines, Bear has been on about 25 tracks and made 8 recoveries. One in three is a typical average with a trained dog tracking wounded animals that would otherwise be considered lost. With the remaining 70% a good number were determined to be marginal hits where the deer was very likely to survive the hit. I bought my first bow in 1985, and have been bowhunting ever since. I'm a Life Member of the Illinois Federation for Outdoor Resources (IFOR) , a Director for the Illinois Bowhunters Society , and a volunteer tracker for United Blood Trackers. I'm also an active member of the North American Teckel Club, and am completing my apprenticeship to become a JGHV certified blood tracking judge. In the spring of 2003 I started lobbying to change the Illinois hunting regulations to permit the use of leashed tracking dogs. In the winter of 2004 a bill was sponsored in the Senate by Senator Todd Sieben and in the House by Representative Dan Reitz. With support and guidance of several key DNR employees, and a handful of dedicated hunters and trackers, the bill was signed into law in time for the 2004 deer season. The administrative rules for tracking on public land were written in the spring of 2005 marking the end of a three year process from start to finish.
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