You go out with coon dogs a dozen times, or maybe a hundred times, and the results are just so-so. Sure, you have fun. You strike coons and you chase them. You tree one 10 minutes after you put the ...

"Had an ol' dog his name was Blue, betcha five dollars he's good dog, too." — American folk song "Old Blue" Most of us have known a dog named Blue at some time in our life. Maybe you were lucky and ...

Trapped inside a hollow tree trunk, nature’s cruelest coffin, a hunting dog manically clawed for a sliver of space and desperately fought for life. The greater the hound’s effort; the greater the tree ...

As dusk falls over the woodlot, you'll start to hear dogs barking and cruising fencerows in search of fresh scent. It’s the telltale sound of coon hunting, in which dogs trail raccoons up into the ...

No one can really say when it all began in earnest, but coon hunting has been a staple of families since the pioneer days. Raccoons have long been hunted for their valuable fur and tasty meet. A large ...

The Mountain Cur is one of America’s original working dogs–brave, energetic, and with a strong hunting instinct. Originally bred by European settlers, it was an indispensable helper on farms and ...