My Issues With This Hound Dog
Tucker is a Treeing Walker CoonHound. I believe that means he’s supposed to hunt for raccoons. This dog is slightly confused. For the past 3 days he has managed to find a turtle and bring it up on the porch, I really thought he had killed the poor thing. I found it Wednesday night when we came home from Cade’s baseball game. He likes to throw things up in the air which makes a ton of noise when whatever he’s throwing comes crashing down. So I picked the poor little guy up and saw that his shell was in pretty good shape and put him out on our deck/balcony where Tucker can’t get to him. I left him there and checked on him occasionally and thought that maybe he in fact was dead, but to my surprise this morning he had moved to the other end of the deck. I picked him up and took him out to the woods this morning to a safe place or so I thought. About a half hour later while cleaning the house I heard Tucker out playing on the front porch with one of his toys. The only problem with this is that I’m afraid he is going to be tossing something and it’s going to come crashing through the glass on the front door. Anyhow, I opened up the door to see what he was playing with and to my surprise he had managed to find the turtle again and was in the middle of having a toss fest with the poor guy again. At this point I’m really frustrated. I keep reminding him of the fact that he’s a coonhound and that he’s really supposed to be treeing coons. Needless to say I went on a very long walk down the road to a small creek and found the turtle a really safe place to be.
So the fact remains, in his mind he’s not really a coonhound but a find/kill/destroy hound. Almost every day he brings logs, not to be confused with sticks up to the porch and chews the bark off of said logs. Two weeks ago he brought a dead baby bird up and just yesterday he killed and brought us a dead baby possum. One day earlier in the week he found something dead and rotten and rolled all over it. Chris ended up giving him a bath and you would have thought he was killing him. I think he was as wet as Tucker when it was all over. So where do you take a dog for therapy? Because I seriously think he needs counseling.
