In our area they drive the deer. The land around us had hunters driving the deer Sunday morning. There was lots of shooting all around us. Where we live it is very rough rolling farmland with wooded areas If I would of been out there looking for Bobbi I could of been shot along with the other two dogs that I would of have taken along to help me find Bobbi at the time. It was also 15 below zero with a new snow cover of a good 12 inches. All the odds were against Bobbi & I finding each other. I took his picture to the sheriffs office immediately Sunday morning, to the radio station, stopped at my neighbors made phone calls to help me find him. We also stopped & talked to hunters & showed them Bobbi's picture. It is a very sad sort of affairs I know & don't think I don't think about it every waking moment. I read on here one time that dogs don't lose their ability to smell the trail & find their way home. Well I don't think that is true. We have livestock & the cows were close to the house in the pasture he should of been able to sniff his way back home. Bobbi I think also lost his ability to smell & sniff the trail to find his way to even back track his own steps.