About Tillison Blood Tracking Dogs
Our Story
I began my love of tracking dogs at a young age. My dad began taking me coon hunting and I enjoyed watching the dogs track and tree the coons. In those days they only made single cab trucks. If you wanted to go coon hunting you had to ride in the dog box with the coon hounds or in the dog box with a blanket wrapped around you. The highlight of the night other than getting to hang out with my dad , was stopping at the convenience store for a candy bar and a coke. As my interest continued to grow, dad took me to a coon hunting field trial. Hunters would bring their coon dogs to compete against each other in different tracking exercises through out the day. After the field trials were complete, the coon hunters and dogs would engage in a night hunt where the dogs were judged on how well they could track and locate the coons. I was totally hooked! One night my red tick coon hound (Tiger) won the night field trail hunt and became a night champion. I was so proud of my dog and my dad was so proud of me. Moving to the present day, my love of deer hunting and my wife's love of dogs --we have bonded together and created a team where we track wounded deer for others hunters. We began our tracking service eleven years ago with Remington and now with Bo and the new addition to our tracking family, Sammy a tan and black Blood Hound.
Our Mission
Educate and aid hunters in the recovery of wounded big game through the use of trained tracking dogs.
Our Values
There’s no worse feeling in deer hunting than losing a deer you’ve shot despite your best efforts for a recovery. Unfortunately, if you hunt long enough, it’s a feeling you are likely to experience at some point. For most of my years as a deer hunter, those efforts included following a blood trail as closely as possible, often getting down on hands and knees if the trail got sparse. If the blood stopped altogether, I would gather as much help as I could to perform a grid search of the area until I felt like I had exhausted all possibilities of recovery. Fortunately most of today’s hunters have another option – the use of a tracking dog.
About Tillison Blood Tracking Dogs
Bo
Bo, is a five-year-old AKC fawn French Bulldog who completed his state service dog certification in September 2019. While taking Bo with Remington on tracks he showed a strong interest in the skill and began his tracking career. Bo has been on numerous tracks for deer and has located wounded deer for hunters, Bo continues to have a strong drive for tracking deer and because of his size can go through thick brush and vegetation that other dogs cannot traverse through.
Remington
Remington was a tan-colored Bloodhound who was trained to track wounded deer and people at the Rio Concho Kennels in San Angelo Texas by David Egger, Remington completed tracking school and was awarded her tracking certification. Remington then completed her UBT 1 certification and began her deer tracking career. After several years of tracking deer successfully, Remington was featured in the first tracking article for Kansas Wildlife and Parks magazine. Remington completed ten years of tracking wounded deer all over Oklahoma and Kansas for many hunters who called on her to help them locate their deer. Sadly in April 2023 Remington passed away, she was eleven years old.
