UKC Forums (http://forums.ukcdogs.com/index.php)
- UKC Coonhounds (http://forums.ukcdogs.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4)
-- you dont know what you got till its gone (http://forums.ukcdogs.com/showthread.php?threadid=928437318)

you dont know what you got till its gone

I bought a little grade female (3/4 walker, 1/4 mountain cur) as a 6 year old. I give $200 for her. She was a pure pleasure to hunt. Very honest mouth stay put tree dog that wouldn't bother anything but a coon. When she treed load the rifle. You were going to see a coon or at the very least a den. She only missed about 1 in 20. Very good pup trainer. She died in February at 12 y.o. After trying a few dogs I realized that I had a very special dog. They're just not many good honest treeing country coondogs anymore. Has anyone else experienced the same problem.

Got that problem right now. Nothing else ever completely matches up to what I had.

__________________
Robert " Rock" Johnson

Johnson Creek Kennels
home of:
UKC Grand Nite Champion "PR" Yadkin River Addkis. Deceased 12/11/2016 RIP

2009/2010/2011/2012 AKC GA. State Leader and Supreme Grand Nite Champion Yadkin River Addkis

2010 ACHA Georgia State Champion Grand Nite Champion Yadkin River Addkis

PKC Champion Yadkin River Addkis

Bright Eye Lights


Treeing Walkers

912-663-5287 cell (perfered)

Well I believe there is no such thing as a perfect dog. Everyone is in search of the perfect dog for them. How they hunt is a preference thing but one of those load the rifle deals are hard to find and people don't want to sell them. I've even seen die hard compitition hunters have a dog that has a little hole that kept them from being great compitition dogs but they were accurate so they would not sell them. Every nice hound I've owned after they were gone I was in search of one better. It gets difficult when the bar is set so high. Good luck.

Feel your pain..

I got 2{male/female} now.I know when there gone I'm done.
I want to cross them,she won't take.She is Clover{Shark} and he's direct off Bark.She's the most accurate dog I've owned.He's the most independent dog I've owned.

I think it has a lot to do with the way dogs are being bread. People are using dogs that don't make coondogs as brood females. If they don't make a coondog they should be knocked in the head or give to someone for a pet. Only good dogs with desirable traits should be used in the breeding pen. That's just my opinion.

dogs

yep! I know where you are coming from! back yrs ago I had a walker/eng/german shepard cross female. dang thing could find coon where you would not think coon were at. catch in swamps-rivers-thickets. didn't matter where they went. back than I wished that I had a hound that could tree coon the way she could. my standards are based on her when I train a young dog and what I am looking for in one got as close to her as I possibly can. young hounds I have now will tree coon after coon in the same woods. and have the brains to know when more are around. good luck finding another.

__________________
C.JONES

ive only had 2 dogs in my lifetime that was what i consider perfect easy ta handle ran no junk and i haven't found nothing as god and ive had a lot of hounds over the yrs ya just can't compare the old day dog's to todays dog's jmo

if you ever get a real good dog you set your standards to that dog and it will be hard to find another dog that will come close to being the same dog , i have not had a dog here in the last 10 or 15 years that i have really liked all though i have had some here that was straight and you could tree a coon every time you took them out , it is hard for a new dog to live up to the good dog of the past ..