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For instance, Coon Dog Day in Saluda N.C., and the National Coon Dog Cemetary in Alabama.
We love our hounds.
Somebody is going to pay bigtime Reparations for this!
Some PC group is sure to object and lobby for a name change.
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Full Cry !
How 'bout them Redbones?
Is my memory that faulty? Anyone else recall regsitering breeds like "Walker" ?
I say they can only add the coon hound if they agree to eliminate three toy breeds.
The Border Collie folks (for example) have resisted AKC reg, because pure conformation judging tends to distort the working characteristics of the breed in favor of good looks.
You see it in my breed - Labrador Retrievers - the show dogs have diverged so much from the field dogs that they look like two different kinds of dog. Also, many of the show dogs can't find a bird in a phone booth, and that's not good for a breed that's supposed to be a Bird Dog.
Hope in 20 years we don't see an AKC coonhound come up to a raccoon and give it that "Huh?" look that you sometimes see when a show Lab encounters a duck.
My dog is cross-registered in AKC and UKC.
I have a bulldog and you can immediately tell the difference between and AKC bully and the ones registered through CKC. They really try to keep the confirmation correct, which in the case of a bulldog, thats really all you can do with the breed. They are not athletic and they are truly companion dogs. On the other hand, when you have a working/hunting dog, they tend to focus too much on looks and not enough on ablility. When you breed AKC that championship bloodline is what sells, you can have the best hunting dog but if his nose or tail is too long or his coloring isn't right he's not show or breeder quality.
Just my opinion, I absolutely LOVE dogs, I could not imagine life without them, so I think its great they're getting the recognition.
Anybody know the old joke (and I mean old) about some city guy who goes racoon hunting with a monkey and challenges the locals to match their coonhounds to his monkey, as far as racoon hunting skill.
I can still remember the punchline, but can't recall all the details of the joke:
The punchline: Yeah, the monkey hates coons, but the one thing he hates worse than coons is a lying coonhound.
My pap-paw raised coonhounds. I still have found memories, when I was 5 or 6, of running after my Dad and my Pap-paw through the briar patches in the middle of the night just trying to keep up with the flashing of their coalmining hats bobbing ahead of me.
My brother had a black and tan coonhound--goofiest,dumbest dog ever..but lovable nontheless.Definitely have 'rabbit in his blood'-always getting loose and roaming.
TREEING WALKER HOUND
When I was growing up in the rural south their were only four groups of registered dogs; pointers, setters, beagles and coon-hounds. At the time coon-hounds were only recognized by the National Coon-hound association. About ten years ago the AKC picked up on the black and tan.
>We love our hounds.<
AKC loves the money associated with Coon Hounds. They are horning in unceremoniously on the action.
They've recognised the Black and Tan Coonhound for decades.
Jesse Jagmo will go apoplectic over that name. It gives the mental image of a dog that is bread to chase down / hunt ... well.. 'coons'. And as we know the word 'coon' will undoubtedly cause someone, somewhere to be offended. And we can't have that, now can we.
Sad, sad, sad news for the breed. They've ruined many a breed by selecting for appearance over ability.
A number of GREAT breeds have escaped this destruction (which is the antithesis of how working breeds were created)- for example (and say this quietly) the American Bulldog. May it be overlooked for decades yet.
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