Using dogs to help find wounded deer is as old as Man’s prehistoric relationship with wolf-like hunting dogs. In its modern form blood tracking with dogs most highly developed in Germany and other countries of Central Europe. In North America dogs were used on the frontier to find wounded big game, and this practice has continued in certain areas where it has not been specifically prohibited. In much of the United States blood tracking with a dog. even on a leash, has became a prohibited activity, outlawed with the general abolition of the use of dogs in deer hunting. However in the South and in certain specified counties of Texas the use of hounds or curs to find wounded deer has continued in the form that it took in the days when this area was first inhabited by white men.