also disagree,
pushing makes for lots of werk,
we will push a wounded hog to run the dogs, training if you will..
but otherwise, let em be..
i have done it both ways, i'd rather only have to drag em from where they 1st lie down..
to the guy that lost all the blood trail, yer doe was outta blood, she prolly only made it another 40 yards, laying in a heap of tree's and brush, see it all to often when we use the dogs,
the guys say we lost blood here, and booyah, the deer is in a gully, buried in bushes or something pretty close. it comes out to about $5 a foot..(jokes around the camp fire about hiring a blood dog)