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 four wonderful litters and was retired from breeding late in 2021. Whitey is the pick of Fletch and Holli's 2nd litter and 4 years old now, who of course is half German and UKrainian! Kena is 3 years old now (her Dam was from Finland) and Whitey have taken over the breeding. Their first litter was in 2022 and they produced some incredible puppies. Whitey and Kena's 2nd litter will whelp in late February 2023.