about us
Many people understand that the dachshund breed are great hunters with the breed originally used to hunt the bad-to-the-bone badger!!! They are of the hound family, and smooth coat dachshunds make great tracking dogs in the northern states! So our mission here at BDH is to breed and train smooth coat dachshunds for game recovery, field trials and to ensure excellent temperaments, making them great pets and family dogs.
At Brown’s Dachshund Hunt (BDH), we breed and train standard smooth coat dachshunds to track wounded deer. Our dogs are of the very highest quality you can obtain anywhere. At BDH we have a state of the art training facility, kennel, and great hunting property! Phase one of our home/facility was completed as of November 5th 2019. Phase two, which included many changes and upgrades inside and outside the 3 acre training and breeding facility was completed in the fall of 2022!
how it all began
My dream of Brown’s Dachshund Hunt began 9 years ago on a cold November morning during deer season. While bow hunting that morning, a nice mature doe came right under my stand, and I took a questionable shot straight below me. The arrow hit right where I wanted, but it was a single lung strike. After waiting several hours before looking for the deer, the search began. It was not long before we realized we had some work ahead of us to recover her. We backed out of the woods, and I remembered I had a friend that had a blood hound that was used for tracking deer. I called him, and he and Mia, the bloodhound, were on the scene shortly. What followed was extraordinary. It took about an hour for the doe to be recovered. At that moment, a strong desire started in me to have my own tracking dog. This was a day I will forever remember.
I knew I wanted to have a game recovery dog, but I desired something smaller than a bloodhound.I remembered seeing a picture in a bow hunting magazine of a dachshund sitting on a buck that had been recovered.. I was sold on a dachshunds from that point on. After calling my very good friend Ray Weaver, who owns Bittersweet Kennels and is the most respected trainer for hundreds of miles in northern Indiana, I told him what I wanted to do, and he agreed to help me with my quest. Two weeks later, Fletch arrived from Goodwood Dachshunds in Oregon. He was 10 weeks old, and the journey began!
Ray helped by starting Fletch's training, and has instructed me on how to work with Fletch over the last 8 years. We added Holli in 2016. She was purchased from Ukraine and is a great dog herself. She had 5 wonderful litters and was retired from breeding late in 2021.
Whitey is the pick of Fletch and Holli's 2nd litter and 5 years old now, who of course is half German and Ukrainian! Kena is 4 years old now (her Dam was from Finland) and Whitey have taken over the breeding. Their first litter was in 2022 and they produced 5 incredible puppies. Whitey and kena's 2nd litter whelped in January of 2023 and kena had 8 puppies in that litter and all were healthy. Many from both litters have become great tracking dogs!
Kena's 3rd litter is coming up with a whelp date of April 25th, 2024 and we are looking forward to another great litter!
My Buck on November 5th 2023 and Fletch's recovery
What a fantastic hunt on the evening of November 5th 2023! This was the biggest buck of my life and fletch made a great recovery. As it turns out he is now retired from tracking so this was his last track. Truly it was a gift from God for both Fletch and I together!!!!
My Buck on November 5th 2023 and Fletch's recovery
What a fantastic hunt on the evening of November 5th, 2023! This was the biggest buck of my life and fletch made a great recovery. As it turns out he is now retired from tracking, so this was his last track. Truly is was a gift from God for both Fletch and I together!!
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