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Coon hunting is also popular in the rural Midwest. Most coon hunts take place at night, with the dogs being turned loose, trailing and putting the raccoon up a tree without human assistance. Once the raccoon is in the tree, with the dog at the base, it is referred to as "treed", with "treeing" being the active verb form.
During the hunt a thunderstorm strikes. Grandpa injures his leg after falling down a hill. Billy wins the hunt, and presents the prize money to his mother, and can finally afford to move from the Ozarks to Tulsa, something his mother always wanted for the family. During a hunting night, the dogs are attacked by a mountain lion. Billy scares it ...
Once Billy gets the puppies home he sets out to train them to be the best dogs in the Ozarks, using a coonskin to teach them to scent trail. On the night of Billy's first hunt, the dogs go after a coon almost immediately but the coon foils them by crossing the river. Billy catches up with the dogs and tells them he is ashamed of them.
The novel begins in 1961 when a middle-aged man by the name of Billy Colman rescues a redbone hound from neighborhood dogs and takes it home to recover. The incident reminds him of the faithful dogs he owned as a child in the Ozarks. The story then travels decades prior to a ten-year-old Billy seeking a pair of redbone hounds for coon hunting.
Foundation dogs were chosen for a keen sense of smell, the ability to track an animal independent of human commands and, most importantly, to follow an animal both on the ground and when it took to a tree. [2] Bloodhounds specifically were added to many coonhound lines to enhance the ability to track. Coonhounds can hunt individually or as a pack.
Most people’s favorite sound made by cats is purring, a mysterious, low-frequency rumble cats are able to make within their vocal cords which often indicate either contentment or sometimes pain ...
The terrain in Virginia was much rougher than what the dogs were used to, so they were bred over time to better adapt to the new conditions. [5] It was traditionally used to hunt raccoons by night and the American red fox by day. [8] The United Kennel Club (UKC) first recognized it in 1905 as the English Fox and Coonhound. [5]
Hyder Simpson is an elderly mountain man who lives with his wife Rachel and his coon dog Rip in the backwoods. Rachel does not like having the dog indoors, but Rip saved Hyder's life once and Hyder refuses to part with him. Rachel has seen some bad omens recently and warns Hyder not to go raccoon hunting that night.