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COUNTRY:
USA
HEIGHT:
21-26 inches
COAT:
Short, smooth and hard
COLOR:
Solid red preferred; small amount of white
on brisket or feet not objectionable
REGISTRY:
UKC
GROUP:
Hound
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In the 18th and
19th century, breeders began creating faster, hotter nosed coonhounds
that were quicker to locate and faster to tree. Using the available foxhound
strains as well as other hounds, and perhaps a little dash of cur, the
specific treeing coonhound breeds were born. All of these hounds were
more American Foxhound type than any other, exhibiting strong, moderately
sized bodies and clean heads with smaller ears.
Red hounds have
been common in America since very early times, when the pioneers' essential
tools were: an axe, a spade, a saw, a gun and a "huntin' dawg,"
Records show Scottish immigrants bringing red hounds to the States in
the late 1700s and the importation of red Irish hounds to an American
hunter before the Civil War. Colonel George EL. Birdsong is known
to have acquired red hounds that figured in his strain as well as the
subsequent July line of foxhounds. Although the exact origin of the red
coonhound is based on speculation, there were certainly plenty of European
hounds of that color to choose from.
Early hounds were
often given the name of their breeder, strain or color. Some say Peter
Redbone, a Tennessee promoter of this type of hound, gave his name to
the hound, while others feel the name evolved from its color. At any rate,
by the latter part of the last century, a well-known treeing dog called
a Redbone Hound was available in solid red, red with white marks, red
with a black saddle (called Saddle- backs) or, occasionally, even black
and tan. Reg-istration began shortly after 1900, with some attempt to
breed only red hounds with white trim.
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