Rose the Nose: When There Is No Trail to Follow
No blood. No bolt. No clear idea which direction the deer had gone. Ryan Griffin’s nephew had shot this nice buck the night before with a small fixed-blade broadhead, but the search afterward left more questions than answers. They were not even sure the hit was fatal.
That is where Rose the Nose came in. Rosie picked up the line and immediately took us in a completely different direction than the hunter expected.
Just 160 yards later, we were standing over his buck.
The answer was a double-lung hit—a fatal wound, but one that had not left a usable external blood trail for the hunters to follow. The buck also had not gone where everyone thought he had.
A tracking dog can work with scent when there is no visible blood to follow. Rosie did not need our guesses about direction; her nose followed the deer.
Huge congratulations to the young hunter, and a big thank-you to Ryan Griffin for trusting Rosie to sort this one out. No blood does not mean no deer.
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