11/07/2025
🦴 Leashed Tracking Help — PENNSYLVANIA HUNTERS 🦌
Hey everyone! 👋
This post is for anyone PA looking for a leashed tracking dog this season.
I’m Casity, and my Dachshund is Henry. Henry and I are new as a team, but we train hard, respect the process, and are excited to help hunters ethically recover their deer.
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🐾 What We Do
We offer leashed tracking to locate wounded deer using controlled, humane, and legal methods. Our focus is on safety, respect for landowners, and effective teamwork. We run on donations currently, all we ask for is consideration of our time and resources to help you locate your deer. We are based out of Addison, NY.
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📋 If You Need Help, Please Provide the Following:
(copy/paste this and fill it out 👇)
• 🧍♂️ Hunter’s Name:
• 🪪 Hunting License Number*(Required):
• 📅 Date & Time Animal Was Wounded:
• 📍 Location of Hit Site (GPS or nearest landmark):
• 🏡 Landowner’s Name (where hit occurred):
• 🚧 Do You Have Permission from Surrounding Landowners? (Yes/No)
• 👣 How Many People Have Helped Track So Far?
• 📏 How Far Have You Tracked It (yards/miles)?
• 🎯 Shot Placement: (where you believe the animal was hit) also helpful quartering to or away, broad side?
• 🩸 Blood Found? (color — bright red, dark red, frothy, etc.)
• 🐾 Any Hair Found at Hit Site? (describe color/amount)
• 🧰 Hunting Equipment Used: (rifle, bow, muzzleloader, etc.)
• 📸 Photos or Video of Hit Site/Blood Trail (optional):
• 📝 Other Notes: (terrain, time since shot, etc.)
⚠️ Please don’t post your hunting license number publicly.
Message it privately so we can keep your information secure.
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🚨 How We Work
Once I get your info, I’ll review it and reach out with a few follow-up questions. If it’s a good candidate for a leashed track, we’ll confirm permission and meet at the site. Please keep in mind I work a full-time job as well, so if I don't answer right away, kindly be patient. I will get back to you!
Henry and I are passionate about ethical recovery and continuing the legacy of leashed tracking. We dont want anyone to leave meat in the woods! Thank you for your consideration and for trusting us!
— Casity & Henry 🐾❤️
Tracking is a part of hunting as defined by Pennsylvania law. While it’s not unusual for hunters to be following blood trails after legal hunting hours, those doing so or otherwise tracking wounded game after hours or on closed season days should call the Game Commission’s Central Dispatch Center (1-833-PGC-HUNT) so dispatchers can authorize the activity and notify the appropriate game warden that tracking is taking place. As of the publication of this digest, it is unlawful to use a drone in any part of hunting, including tracking and recovery of game.
Leashed tracking dogs can be used to aid in the recovery of a deer, bear or elk shot lawfully in an open season.
No permit is required.
The tracking-dog handler must be properly licensed for the animal being tracked and wear the required amount of fluorescent orange clothing for the season, and cannot dispatch wounded game that will be tagged by a hunter. All laws pertaining to the taking of game apply. A tracking-dog handler must abide by hunting hours and notify the Game Commission if tracking is to occur outside them. Trackers cannot
charge for their services on state game lands. Permission is needed before entering private property.d
(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), it is unlawful for any person to make use of a dog in any manner to hunt for or to take big game or to permit a dog owned, controlled or harbored by that person to pursue, harass, chase, scatter, injure or make use of a dog to kill any big g...
