Registered: Jul 2009
Location: Western WI
Posts: 783

I haven't fostered a coonhound since January, but this guy's time was up and another rescue person offered to take him next week. He is quite the character. I am going to have fun for the next five days.

I am sure it isn't acceptable to call an intact male coonhound cute, but this picture is so cute that I had to share.

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Registered: Aug 2006
Location: munfordville ky.
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SOUNDS LIKE A LUCKY DOG, HOPE HE MAKES SOMEONE A GOOD PET !!

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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: In the boonies of Michigan
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He's adorable! Picture brought a big smile to my face. I have no problem calling him cute. Cute as heck.

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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Massachusetts
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My bluetick male is NOT intact anymore(he had to be neutured due to a divorce before we lucked into him in animal control).... BUT he does things that are Insanely cute and I imagine he was JUST as cute before he lost his male parts...
He looks like a tough foster...may be hard to see him move along... We were the worlds worst fosters... one BnT we had here ended up terminally ill so we did hospice with her for a few wonderful mos before she went on to the Big Old Tree... where she is Surely under a big old coon... then there is the one lying on the sofa stretched over 3 cushions the way only an AKC BnT can do....LOL.. HE was just a transport...but was so dehydrated...that we kept him to nurse him "for a week or so".... been 3 yrs now I think....LOL...
Fostering is HARD work, rewarding as can be(if you are good at it...unlike us....)... coonhounds are so tuff to rehome because people don't get to see them in the "real world" much... You are doing a great service, one tha we hope to do again someday in the future once my health is straightened out a bit more...and we have a few less mouths to feed...(dogs, cats, chickens, wild animals... kids ...LOL)... YOU are a real hero to take on coonhounds!
Hope to see that dawg in his new Forever home someday! Have people keep posting his pix!
HappyFostering, Heather

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Registered: Jul 2009
Location: Western WI
Posts: 783

I know there are some hunters who are against coonhounds as pets. (Believe it or not, I have come to understand that. I think that the pet market has ruin or at least damaged the health and reputations of many wonderful breeds.) The thing that amazes me is how quickly the coonhounds I have fostered adjust to life as pets.

Yesterday, Cletus didn't know how to walk up the stairs or across my hardwood floors. Today, he is following me around the house and is curled up on the floor next to me as I type this.

These are wonderful dogs...

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Registered: May 2009
Location: CENTRAL TEXAS
Posts: 146

Dang, my dog's a rescue named Cletus too. He follows me everywhere, and with a very liitle coersion became trained on everything but stay. He is a great dog, and if he was lost or abandoned I got the lucky end of the stick

I'm going to hunt with him as soon as I redeploy from Iraq. Who says you can't have a hound as a pet, and still hunt with him? Here's hoping he'll tree something other than squirrels which he's been doing already.

He was fixed after he was brought into the rescue (www.coonhoundrescue.com), so now he just has a mudflap back there.

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Registered: Jun 2008
Location: southwest,pa(greene co.)
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all my dogs have great personalities,they play like their pups with the kids,and me,i just wish thet smelled better LOL.we would keep them even if they were not good coondogs.they make a great o'l farm dog,and a man's best friend!

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