Tracking big game in the Minnesota woods

Stern, a 6-year-old German shepherd, collared with a long leash, her nose close to the ground, leads her human partner through the Minnesota woods. Juliet Flint, holding onto the leash, keeps up the pace. She knows her dog is on a scent track and soon, she has no doubt, Stern will find what she is searching for — a downed deer that ran away after a hunter had shot it. Instead of letting the harvest go to waste lost in the woods, Flint uses her dog, at the hunters request, to track the game animal. Flint reads her dog and knows that Stern will find success just up ahead, the leaves crunching under her paws, the scent making the female shepherd excited. Flint is right. Stern leads her owner and the hunter to a downed deer. Now the hunter can harvest his kill and the deer won’t go to waste. Per usual, Stern did well.

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