Thanks guys – I appreciate it – you should have been there when - after couple of kilometers – deadly tired - asking yourself what the heck am I doing here - the animal stops and the barking of the dog became low howling – all the pain is forgotten and you praise the day you have brought your puppy in the house and start training it, swearing many times – but now he/she is there calling you to come and help...hard to describe but it is a divine feeling.

Yours trully after 6 hours and 8 kilometers with almost 100 F heat - stag initially shot in the front left knee

- beaten tired, drenched in sweat but happy

Many times after successful tracking I hear hunters saying “I must get one of those”, but at the end they figure it out what it really takes to make a good performance tracking dog and they realize it would be easier to just call me or some other guy to do the job.

As guys from RAF said: “Per ardua ad astra” it is a dirty but highly self rewarding job – however there are tracks without end that you just can’t solve and it is hard to shake off the feeling that there is a clue there somewhere that you just can’t find and must leave the track at the end without finding the quarry.