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Skuna River Fred vs Bark vs Homer

I have owned one Skuna dog and loved him dearly. I have relocated and am researching for another Skuna dog. What are the strengths of these three that would help differentiate them apart from each other?

The male I owned was a gorgeous beast with a full black blanket. He was good on track and LOUD on tree. In fact he would drown out every dog in a quarter mile. He was a gentle soul and acted like one of the kids. He was easily trained with handling commands and hunted close like my curs but would finish a track no matter how deep. He stared early on his own and was a natural tree dog. He died and I want another Skuna dog.

Well the mother has as much to do with it or more than the dad !! With that said Fred thru more tree dogs than track naturally straight coon treers that would show some lazy streaks not bad !!! Accurate !! Bark dogs hussle good to great mouths better track dogs than the Fred dogs good consistant tree dogs good. Noses and have that coon finding ability no matter where there put down fore the most part not trashy track driving coon treers !! I like the bark dogs !!! Homer what I have experienced with homer dogs is you get a big mouth hustling hard hunting good nose very accurate coon treers that have good manners all around or you would get a complete idiot that wouloop in feed bowl pi$$ in water bowl and completely nasty and extremely dirty in the kennel !! But when you backed homer with a swamp female you got top notch coon treers with ll the tools !! There is good and bad in all general speaking Skuna river hounds are some of the best available out there today for hard coon hunters !!! Again and I cant stress this enough the dam has as much if not more to do with what you get !! All 3 of these males proved they were top reproducers in every way and coon treers there's elves !!!!! Get the rite momma dog and you will be very happy with most !!571-233-5819

I have switched to this strain of dogs about 10 yrs ago. I've had both fred and bark dogs. Fred's dogs were classier tree dogs, generally belly up with better mouths. Bark's dogs were hard going that could handle a track. They were much better about having the coon do to the fact they usually put him up there. I think you could take a fred dog and hunt a patch of good woods in an hr and make 6 trees and look at 3 to 4 coons. You take a Bark dog and go in the same block and probably only make 3 to 4 trees but look at 3 to 4 coons too! I have the best of Both with my Stud, his sire is Bark and his Dam is Raccoon Valley Queen who is the mother of both fred and homer. I am extremely pleased with the pups he throws. As far as homer I agree with what was said prior to my post. If not for this strain of hounds, I probably wouldn't hunt a walker. The best dog I have ever seen to date was off of Bark X a Fred over Cash female. Cash was Homer's Gomer's full brother.