Bear at 8 months guarding his first recovered buck. (mouseover) Dachshunds like to get agressive and latch onto an ear or tail  when they find a deer.

Bear tracked this buck the morning after it was shot, but the song dogs beat him to it. (mouseover) Closeup Bear has that "stay away from my deer" look on his face.

In this photo Bear and I have just finished the first fahrtenschuh blood tracking test held in North America. Bear ran the track in 28 minutes and finished with a Prize I. The test was held in June 2005 at John and Jolanta's in Berne, NY. (mouseover) The judging team from left to right, Carrie Hamilton and Larry Gohlke from the NATC, and Martin Zander, Vice-President of the Deutscher Teckelklub.

This is a pair of fahrtenschuh (tracking shoes), used for laying artificial deer tracks. In the DTK test, blood drops are added every 30 feet, with a total of 1/3 cup blood in over a 1/2 mile track with turns, the track is then aged overnight. The dog is trained to work the gaps between the blood on hoof scent alone. (mouseover) Bear fell asleep while guarding one of my wooden fahrtenschuh, serious work for a tracking dog.......

Bear with a rabbit.after training for an AKC brace-on-rabbit field trial. (mouseover) Here's a doe Bear found for a hunter that was shot from high in the back and behind the diaphram. There wasn't a single drop of blood on this track, which shows why training with fahrtenschuh is so useful.

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