junior8
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Re: Cross Bred Hounds
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Originally posted by JOE H BROOKS
Actually some of the walker dog roots, came from blue ticks, that's why, you some times get a blue tick litter of pups, that are black and white, no ticks. The red ticks also came from the blue tick breed and some of the english, i won't say all, cause, some of them came, from the walker breed. I see a lot of in breeding, line breeding, and people start haveing problems, in their dogs, parrot mouth, no heat cycle, dogs, found dead in pen at 3 yr. old, 8 yr. old, remember, you get the bad, defects, just as well, as the good. The old dogs of years past use to live longer, 15 to 16 years, we are lucky, today if they are alive at 11 years of age. I prefer to use a total out cross, black&tan to walker, i still try to breed, for what is lacking, in the female or male, if i have a dog that goes too hard, i'll bred to a female, that hunts close, that takes, pressure, stays hooked, if one is a little trashy, i'll bred something clean, in there.
A person could almost say that the history of the English Coonhound is the history of all coonhounds — and he wouldn’t be too far wrong. With the exception of the Plott Hound, all the UKC breeds of coonhounds have a common ancestry that is deeply rooted in the English Foxhound
The English was first registered by UKC in 1905, under the name of English Fox & Coonhound. In those days the dogs were used much more on fox than they are today. The name also reflected the similarity that the breed had to the American Foxhound and the English Foxhound.
The variation in color brings us to another aspect of the English Coonhound history. Both the Treeing Walker and the Bluetick Coonhound were originally registered with UKC as English. The Walker was recognized as a separate breed in 1945 and the Bluetick a year later. To this day there are still tri-colored and blueticked English hounds, though redticked dogs predominate.
The first mention we have of hounds in America appears in the diary of one of the men of the explorer DeSoto. He also mentions that the hounds were used for the hunting of Indians rather than fox, raccoon or rabbit.
In 1650, the Englishman Robert Brooke brought his pack of hounds with him. Thomas Walker of Virginia imported hounds from England in 1742, and in 1770 George Washington, an avid fox hunter, had hounds imported from England. These dogs were the foundation of the “Virginia Hounds”, from which our present day English Coonhound developed.
It was, however, for the Americans to adapt these animals to the much rougher American terrain and climate. And it was the Americans that, through careful breeding practices, adapted the hound to American game, the raccoon, opossum, cougar and various species of bear.
English hounds have excelled in both performance and conformation. The first major coonhound Field Trial of all time, the first Leafy Oak, was won by an English dog called “Bones”, owned by Colonel Leon Robinson.
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