I went ahead and pm'd the 3 no-shows and asked them to log into the team thread.
I took my young wirehair doxie (Ruby) up to PA last week and got her officially certified for blood trailing ("UBT-I"). Certification is an independent assessment that is required in many states, but is not required in MD. Ruby and I are still on a learning curve working together - we sucessfully trailed 7 deer her first season last year, but many of those were easy tracks/found-deer for training purposes. Ruby did find two deer that could have easily been lost (pic is my wife & Ruby with a friend's buck that had a scant blood trail). Most of you all are too far away to where we can help track this season - keep me in mind Ed.
-fsh
