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 ...

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 first dogs in my memory were the farm dogs we used for herding our dairy cows. This was back in the 1950s, when the Thumb had countless small farms, usually entailing milk cows. A common dog in ...

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 ...

Blankenship has been charged in connection with the accepting of bribes from Buchanan County contractors, including cash, coon dogs, coon dog hunting trips, the construction of a coon dog kennel, and ...