Blood spoor

 

Just in our area we have heard of several incidents in two weeks during this 'hunting season' of animals being shot and left to die on their own because the people could not find them. A gnu (wildebeest) shot in its mouth, an impala (rooibok) shot in it's leg, another antelope shot in its back, and others. Several other animals not mentioned above were found dead on other people's farms with shot wounds.

 

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.

 

If every hunting party had a tracking dog then this would not happen. Any animal that is wounded and runs away would immediately be tracked by a dog and found.

 

Our dogs have tracked wounded animals and also healthy animals. One game farm taught their hound that they had bought from us to track every type of animal on the farm within the first 3 weeks! (He then tracked rhino poachers in the 3rd week - luckily before they had killed the rhinos - but they got away after a shoot-out.)

 

We trained someones jack russell to track, and she went home and successfully tracked a wounded impala.