Mullins Dog Training- Specializing in Blood Tracking Dogs for Wounded Game

Mullins Dog Training- Specializing in Blood Tracking Dogs for Wounded Game We train dogs of all breeds and ages for the ethical recovery of wounded game.

07/06/2025

Here’s what most hunters don’t realize, your deer is giving off a chemical trail the moment it’s hit… and it has nothing to do with blood.

Every time that hoof touches the ground, it’s releasing pheromones from the hair follicles around the interdigital glands, part of a built-in chemical communication system.

📌 These are not odors.
They’re non-volatile, terrain-locked molecules. You can’t see them. You can’t smell them. But to a dog with a trained vomeronasal organ (Jacobson’s organ), they’re screaming “I’m wounded, I’m stressed, I’m dying.”

And here’s where it gets even crazier:

🔬 These pheromones change in real time as the deer’s condition improves or worsens. That’s right, your dog isn’t just trailing scent. It’s reading the health status of the animal as it goes.

🧠 And while humans use just 5 million scent receptors, many working dogs have between 150-300 million, wired to a brain region 40 times larger than ours for processing scent.

But scent receptors alone aren’t the whole story.

The real power comes from how dogs analyze pheromone patterns with a completely separate olfactory system. That’s why they can pick up a cold track 24+ hours later, after a storm, across water, or through thick brush.

Thermal drones?
Cool toys, but they can’t touch this, and I own one.

🔥 A drone can show you heat.
A dog can show you intent, direction, stress, time of passage, and death chemistry.

🛸 And unlike drones, dogs don’t get confused by heat sinks, beds, or thermals bouncing off stumps and brush piles.

💡 When in doubt, call a dog.
No blood? Doesn’t matter.
No sign? Irrelevant.
If that deer walked away on its feet, a trained dog may still paint you a trail you never knew existed.

This isn’t myth.
This is science, and it works.

07/03/2025
07/01/2025

Join us as we recap the Michigan event with several people that attended the event.

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06/24/2025

Join us as we discuss the tough question we should ask ourselves when we get the call.

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06/17/2025

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06/14/2025
06/12/2025

🎯 Training Day Grind
Black Lab on a mission.

This young female is putting in the reps on a mock wounded deer trail, and she’s not here to play games. Focused nose, steady pace, and working the scent line like it owes her money.

It’s not just about nose, it’s about grit, drive, and learning to problem solve through the tough spots. You don’t build a recovery dog overnight. You build them in the woods, in the sweat, and in the silence between footsteps.

🦴 Mock track. Real work. Future finisher.

06/10/2025

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02/12/2025

Come along as MattBurger takes us through his tracking season journey. He’ll share his accomplishments, key lessons, and valuable tips. And, as always, we’ll have an interactive Q&A session.

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