I seldom check my profile page, and somehow I missed this in the discussions. Yes, Missy is a Treeing Walker. We got her at a kill place and had 3 minutes to assess her and our hearts. She was so big that we and out vets thought that she was an adult. They just thought that she hadn't come into heat, because she was skin and bones. She just keeps growing and growing. We realize now that she was about 6 months old. She was a wild dog that apparently followed her Mom out on a coyote hunt on a big ranch and never found her way home. An older Bluetick pup that was on his own adopted her. They were trapped together and had only 6 hours of adoption time. We were going to get just one, but they were such an obvious couple that we got both of them. I don't know where you're looking for your Walker, but the so called experts can be dead wrong. People go by what the people at the pound-shelter-foster family say, but they can be very wrong. They said that we shouldn't get the Bluetick because he was psychotic and unaware of humans. My son, a disabled vet with physical and emotional problems, felt so sad about that. The Bluetick turned to my son, stood up on his back paws and very gentley placed his paws on my son's chest and looked into his eyes. It took about 2 months, then the Bluetick wagged his tail non-stop for over a year. Because they had been wild, we had our unique problems. They kept covering my bedroom floor with fluff, feathers and twigs, as it was our "den". They didn't eat any type of dog food, if they were able to catch enough birds, bugs, lizards, dig up roots of edible native plants, and shake enough fruit out of the trees. At first they turned their noses up at gravy, etc. The only human food they'd eat was plain white rice and pasta. You sort of make your hound, but it takes patience. Good luck--

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