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Dog
breed description
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Vary in coloring, there are
many similarities among the six types of Coonhounds; the Black and Tan
Coonhound, the Blue Tick Coonhound, the English Coonhound, the Plott
Hound, the Redbone Coonhound and the Treeing Walker. Used for trailing
and treeing raccoon, he runs his game entirely by scent. He does have
a tendency to stray and needs to be closely supervised. Traced back
to an extinct hound from the eleventh century you will also find some
Bloodhound, and American and English Foxhound in his ancestry. Development
of the breed goes to the people who lived in the mountains of Virginia,
the Ozark Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains. Breed for the ability
not only to trail but to "tree".
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