Ruby’s Recoveries

02/03/2026

It’s this goofy girls 2nd Birthday today. happy Birthday Ruby!

01/25/2026

Becoming a little spoiled inside on these cold days. She deserves it.

01/20/2026

We will be donating a track to McLean County Sportsmen’s banquet this year for their auction. Get your tickets now! Great dinner with like minded people with a live and silent auction. Proceeds go to a great cause, often introducing youngsters to the outdoors.

We will have a deer track up for auction this year!

01/11/2026

Ruby’s got some more brothers and sisters! Look at them scrunchy wrinkle faces.

01/02/2026

Happy New Year everyone! As the season winds down we reflect back on all the tracks we did. Whether we were able to tailgate deer or not for you, we appreciated the tracks. Ruby is turning into one heck of a hound dog. We’ll continue our training throughout the year so keep an eye out for some practice track videos! Good luck out there!

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas to all of our friends, family, colleagues, and clients!

12/18/2025

Tracking calls have dried up. Hopefully over Christmas break I can get one more myself for Ruby to track. Until then bloodhound puddles like the one pictured here are common place around the shed and house.

12/11/2025

An unfortunate proof of life video. We tracked this deer 11/14 and he showed back up 2 weeks later. On the track Ruby advanced a few hundred yards and sped up barking and baying around the area this camera is in. That is a tell tale sign we are on a live deer. I restart her multiple times when this happens just to make sure she takes the same line.

12/06/2025

Ruby found a doe this morning. The doe was shot last night and the hunter knew it was far back and had only a pin drop of blood to begin with. Once we started Ruby on it she found another spot of blood across a fence to the property line about 30 yards away from the intial pin drop. After gaining permission on two different properties we followed Ruby and pin drops of blood to this doe almost a half a mile away. Unfortunately the coyotes got to it first(hence the sad face emoji).

11/26/2025

Here is another proof of life picture as we take this week off for vacation. This deer was hit pretty far back in the intestines. I had multiple proof of life pictures like this one last year when the deer was still alive weeks after they were hit in the intestines. Ruby and I will be well rested after this week to track the 2nd firearm season and remainder of the archery season. Good luck out there!