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Haha Ill try, going to try again after work today. Now if I could afford to fix my tracking system, or quit being lazy and send it in then I could turn them loose. Need 2 more collars too

Redwood Coonhounds wrote:Here's my newest addition, Gamble, with his best friend in the world, my barncat Timmy.

Timmy is a little "slow" (litterally, he has mental problems) and every dog is his best friend (though he has so far stayed away from the big dogs.) This is the first time he's had a hound dog for a freind though. He LOVES them ears!

Gamble loves mauling him. I can see a lot of natural talent already! He doesn't really bark much as he usually has a mouth full of fur. I can tell he's playing but on a few occasions I'll see "nature" kick in and he'll start gut grabbing a little hard, or if Timmy runs, the chase is on. He can find this cat ANYWHERE. I let him out the door, and he runs nose to the ground, or winds until he finds him!

No kittens were hurt, and the pup is expected to make a full recovery!

Do you rent Timmy out I could use one like that from time to time

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My hounds are hell on cats, but they did learn to get along with certain cats when we lived in the city part of the week. In particular, there was a bakery where they used to give the hounds treats (mostly rolls) that kept a mouser. They had a truce with that cat. I suspect it was because they knew they wouldn't get their rolls if they pestered that cat. There were other tough Brooklyn cats that came out of their stores to swat them, and they respected the ones that drew blood from their noses. They still hunted the alley cats, and I had to wrap the leash around the nearest parking meter if they spied one or they would get away from me.

I give training advice to a lot of people that take in rescued coonhounds as pets and don't understand their behavior because they don't understand what they are bred to do. A surprising number get their hounds to coexist peaceably with cats they owned before they got their hounds. It always amazes me, but many hounds will accept their family cat as long as it has its claws and doesn't go outside. The family has to let the hound know that they like that particular cat and it isn't to be hunted, and the cat needs a safe place to retreat to, even if its only the top of the refrigerator. However, these pet hound owners tell me that the hounds never learn to generalize that all cats are to be left alone--they still tree barn cats, the neighbor's cat, the alley cat in the garbage, etc.

I have a few cats that stays around my hounds house cats that is, I get a bunch of wood waste that gets chipped and they help keep the rats and snakes away, they do a real good job at it, I have noticed some hounds are natural born house cat haters, and some pay them no attention, seen one asleep with one hound when it was cold , but some there will be fur flying if they slip and get in the pen , it don't take them long to figure out which one will murder u , but I see no difference in hunting them on bobcat they never look back when they smell a bobcat !

All of them are different, not that you couldn't teach them to leave house cats alone. I had a hound one time that got slapped by a cat when she was just a little pup, cut it across its nose and left a white scar all the way across it. That dog hated a cat all it's life, her eyes would glaze over, chewing at the wire drulling and growling trying to get too them. I never let her get to one but I know what would have happened if she did. Had a beagle that would sleep curled up with the cat unless one of the other beagles got out then it would help put that cat up a tree quick.

Been a long time since I seen this post. Still have Timmy the cat, and Gamble has turned into one hell of a dog. Lot's changed since then, all my dogs are competely fine with all 5 of my yard cats, including the older dogs. In the winter it's not unusual to find a cat sleeping in the doghouse with one of the dogs. I also have chickens, which they pay no mind to, but the chickens get in the dog houses, and won't let the dogs in. Most all my pups have a phase where they try and get after the cats, and stalk the chickens. About 2 times out hunting and they completely forget about it.