John Jeanneney has owned and hunted with European wirehaired dachshunds since he brought his first bitch back from Germany in 1965. Ten years later, after he had lost a wounded deer himself, he applied for a research license from New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation to investigate the feasibility of using leashed tracking dogs. John had lots of help from friends who soon began tracking with him on that special permit. These trackers joined together as Deer Search Inc. In 1987 they were successful in having the New York Legislature pass a "leashed tracking dog" law, the first of its kind in the United States. John has trained and worked with many different tracking dogs and he has found over 200 wounded deer and bears with them. John has retired from his University position as a history professor, but he has found that a deer tracker never gets old. It's just that the hills get steeper.

John is a judge of:

He is a Deer Search Master Handler and he enjoys working with new handlers and apprentices.

John has written many articles on blood tracking and tracking dachshunds. Some of them will be posted here. He also wrote the book Tracking Dogs For Finding Wounded Deer, which was published in October 2003. He writes a monthly column about tracking wounded game with dogs for Full Cry. He can be reached at john@born-to-track.com or 518-872-1779.