I hope that you Cat owners post pics of your hounds-as they are hounds-and the stock from which my Bluetick and Treeing Walker come from. The Catahoula Leopard dog is about the only hound breed recognised by the AKC-the others are called "Others". The AKC does say that Treeing Walkers are the most graceful. They haven't seen her, that's for sure-please post an album. Please-

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Keep checking with Petfinder.com and oodle.com. It took me over a year to find a hound-then I ended up with 2-as they were dumped off at the kill shelter together and shared a pen together. My son would come into the kitchen after midnight and I'd be sitting at the computer crying because they just didn't have any hounds listed-or a rescue group said that we were unfit because I'm in my 60s (too old for a hound) and my son is a disabled vet (too frail). We were offered a hound by one rescue group that had a $6,000 vet bill attached-shattered leg and lots of skin grafts. I almost didn't check that day my sweetie pies were listed-as the director of the kill shelter told them that nobody wanted a hound and the hounds had only 6 hours of adoption time. I found the hounds online-called the shelter-found out that we only had a few hours to get them. I called my son at the VA and told him to get his rear here-gas was $5 gallon and we broke the speed limit for a hundred miles one way. When we got there we couldn't decide which one to take-so we took both. Some of the staff was saying that the hounds would end up in the shelter within 6 weeks-that was March 19, 2008. They sleep with me and are very gentle with my son. Don't give up!! Stonewall doesn't seem to be a pure hound-but probably has some German Short Hair mixed in. He's the handsome dude to the left. Missy seems to be a purebred Treeing Walker Coonhound. Stonewall does have a good Bluetick Treeing Coonhound bawl. They are loud-They are big- they aren't scared of anything and they are mine!! Click on photos in the blue line under WikiFido-the click on albums at the top of the photo page. Look for "Hound Chronicles" in the albums- those are my sweetie pies that I found. Let me know how it goes-PS-I could've gotten a bassett or a beagle-but I wanted a coonhound-big-brassy and bold-I just love them (coonhounds).

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Go to a clean kill shelter-save a healthy dog. I was deemed unsuitable to adopt a hound because I was 66-too old; my son is a disabled vet.-too frail; I was asked where I'd keep a hound-in or out. I told them any place the hound D#@* well wanted to be-I'm not a pack leader; if they did let me have one- they could come out any time they wanted and take the hound away if they saw anything they didn't like with anything. Basically-people would rather kill dogs then give people and the dogs a chance. Well, Missy is on my bed. Stonewall is a few feet from me on one of many of the dog beds around. They had 6 hours to be adopted-their euthanization was already scheduled-but a volunteer took a chance and posted them. They decided to give us a chance but several workers were saying the hounds would be in a shelter in less than a week. That was March 19, 2008. The dogs were feral and didn't know nothing-they are still learning-but they walk on a hillbilly coupler-so my legs don't fall off-they've routed burglers in the whole area and the cops and mailpersons love them--Stonewall tries to check the house before we go to bed-They think that they're pillows for toddlers-Go see the album the "Hound Chronicles" on how misfit people and misfit dogs can thrive. Stonewall-the handsome dude to the right was supposed to be psychotic and unable to react. He stood up on his hind feet and gentley leaned on my son's chest and looked into my son's eyes. My son thinks that Stonewall really understands the English language. It took about 90 days before they'd look up when we said their names. They never had a name before-they never had humans before. Many, many people in rescue groups are saints-but there have been other complaints about some people that take advantage of peoples' desire to do the right thing and do wrong to the dogs. Here, most dogs are on concrete, asphalt, hard packed dirt, or gravel.

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I know what you mean-it really hurts- your dog was was probably smelling and following the trail of a cat or something and somebody found him and kept him. It happens. Do you have a dog now?

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Yes, please get back to us. Any time that you want to talk we're here for you. We've all lost a beloved family pet one way or the other. I still miss the little hound that I grew up with. Part of my heart is always with Puddin' Head. If mothers reached over the fence to get their child-he'd bite them. If they came in the gate-knocked on the door and let my Mom know that the little kid was going home- he wagged his tail or kept snoring. Of course, the older kids went home when their Mom's called-but the little ones were his lambs. If you have this problem in the future-you can always search through the Internet on Petfinder.com-it makes it easy to contact every shelter and view every dog they have. Several years ago, there was a bad car wreck and a registered Old English Sheepdog was lost by a family in Colorado. They were in the hospital, so the search began about 6 months later. They came down and convinced the TV stations to run a piece about the dog and the reward. They were contacted by a Mexican family that REFUSED the reward. The owners traveled down to Mexico-even though the rescue family offered to drive half way or meet them in El Paso. The dog was in perfect shape-had vet care-everything- The family from Colorado asked the other family to meet them half way a few months later. They had a registered sheepdog puppy for the smallest Mexican girl that cried. and cried. Maybe somebody kept your dog because they loved it too much to give it back. and it sleeps with a little boy or girl and protects them.

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What's the oddest or most charming thing that your dog does? Stonewall wants in-he stands at the door and wags his tail- then he starts puffing and blowing his cheeks-then he makes a dainty little bay/yelp and wags his tail, then a little yelp again. When we open the door-he runs and tells Missy that the door is open and they both come at a run. When he's in-he still gets Missy and takes her out. When I tell them to go to bed-Missy goes to bed and Stonewall checks the doors -each room and then heads to bed at a run. Got to find the cat-put it out and go to bed-Dogs rule!!

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I don't see how this is a "discussion". Do you have anything in particular to say?

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