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Yesterday was an interesting afternoon. To start off I live in town, not a big town, but town. I was getting my kennels ready for the rain that we got today and let the dogs run loose in the back yard. I have a little male cure, an old walker female, a new b&t pup and a new walker pup. As I was working away I noticed my cur dog wasn't in the yard anymore. I threw the rest of the dogs in the kennels real quick, found where rooster got out and jumped in my pickup. I headed west and couldn't find him that way, so I turned around and headed east. Just as I was passing my house I heard him treeing in the distance. I got to him and he teed a cat in front of a small appartment complex. I jumped out and there were a couple of guys standing around watching him. On my way over one of the guys said, "he's a huntin dog huh." I told him yup. peted rooster, told him good job. Jumped in my pickup and got out of dodge. Anyone else have an interesting time owning hounds and haveing to live in town?

Haha, ok so my neighbor lives next door and recently this summer she got 5 cats. Got an older cat that had like 4 kittens. Well I have 2 older dogs, 5 and 3, and 2 younger pups, 7 months old. Well Im at work like I usually am and my wife calls me and says that Moose my walker/redtick got out of the fence, aka jumped/climbed it, and was treeing 3 of my neighbors kitten in her tree. Well my other neighbors across the street come out and they are just loving this because they like my hounds and eventually pull him off the tree and hook him to this leash I have in the front yard. The lady never even comes out of her house. So after all of this my wife is kind of embarrased and all I care about is how well was he treeing the housecats, haha. The best part is getting a knock the next day on the door from the cops, I know the cop that came, and him telling me I have too many dogs for city ordinance, a Dangerous Animal Complaint, and Excessive Barking, hahaha. He kind of laughed since its a small town and said I cant be having my dogs barking and treeing my neighbors housecats like that. He wasnt mad, just doing his job. He treed those housecats damn good! Snow should start flying any day now to to get him going on cats.

I regularly let my hounds tree alley cats in Brooklyn NY. I live in the Catskill mountains a lot of the time, but come down to the city a couple days a week when I have stuff I need to do there. The hounds get a little restless in the city but there are alley cats out back. Fences keep the redbones from getting out into traffic or actually grabbing the cats. Most people love to hear them!

Coons love scootin under peoples decks and sheds at 1 in the morning. The skunks are the same way I'm the favorite kid on my street.

I used to hunt bear close to town. True story. I once had the hounds tree a bear beside the window of a cabin , the window was open and a couple was in bed. Never did understand what he was saying as I leashed dogs and WENT. Another time had em bay up a bear under a deck of a cabin.People screemin, dogs bayin ,bear runnin at us, bumpin my head on the deck. Finally got em leashed and drug away from there.

P.S. Most of my true stories actually happened.

From time to time I've had cats travel around the cedar fence that surrounds my backyard, even had one tom cat that would lay on top the fence across the yard from the hounds and tease them.

One day I left my little Rodo loose in the backyard and one of those cats came prowling around the outside of the fence, not knowing she was loose. I had gone to town for a minute and returned to hear that little Rowen dog treeing in the neighbor's weeping willow tree. Yea, she must have jumped on a dog house and then leap over the top of that six foot fence and surprised the hell out of that cat, and was high in the tree face barking it when I arrived.

Another time Rowen and Ryan were just pups and a slat was down on the fence. It was early one Sunday morning and I let them off their chains t play in the backyard. I stepped out the back door and could hear them open and leave through the fence. Well they caught the neighbors cat up under the finder of his old Ford pickup truck, and were just going to town on that cat. I ran over there hoping they didn't stretch that thing and have witnesses (like one of the kids) watch the deal go down.

But no one was home and so I tried to gather them up. Well that little Rowen has always been a smart dog and she'd run around the truck and start treeing again. Finally the cat saw daylight between the hounds and popped out running like the devil was after it and climbed on top of a storage shed. Both those hounds were right on it's tail and locked up treeing hard on the cat. Nowdays I load dogs through my garage with the doors shut..........

ike

Last April the wind blew and drifted piles of snow onto my property and it piled pretty deep in some areas. It was a nasty day, the kind of day a fellow should hunker down and keep the fire going. But I had a meeting in town and my wife wanted to go shopping. As we pulled out of the drive I looked over to the dog kennel and committed to her that I was concerned that the snow would drift up in the kennel enough for the dogs to get out. But then I thought even if it did they'd stay curled up in their dog box and be fine. A couple hours later I was in my meeting when I received a call from a number I didn't recognize so I ignored it. Then a few minutes later they called back and again I ignored the call... never know those telemarketers can be persistent. Then a third time they called back, this time I excused myself to take the call. Sure enough it was my neighbor up the road from me. He said I got two of your hounds here with me. I was out feeding my horses when I saw them go hauling past my place. He said at first I dismissed it but then they started treeing on a big cottonwood behind my place. So I went over to see what was going on. When I got over to there I was surprised to see two dogs out on a day like this but they had a big coon in the tree. I pulled them off and put them in the barn for you.

I mentioned that I had a third dog, but he said there were only two and from his description I thought it was my Redbone and Walker who got out. He was good enough to go check the kennel just to rule that out. I left my meeting early and hurried home. On the way he called back and said the other dog was in her box. When I got to his place I put the story together. It turned out it was my English Redtick and Redbone pup who escaped to go hunting without me. Back at the kennel the snow was drifted over six feet of fence and the dog box was blown full of snow. Except for the Walkers hers was turned so it didn't fill full of drifts. I spent an hour shoveling there pen back down to ground level.

A guy has got to be proud of his dogs when they tree the right critters even when your not around... could have been a house cat I'd been fine with that too. Now where they found a coon on a day like that I have no idea. We were at the end of our lion season and we had hunted every snow storm up until that point so they must have felt that since there was snow on the ground that they should go hunt'n. And when they treed they figured I'd I be along soon to shoot it out for them anyway. I can only imagine what they must of thought when a stranger showed up and hauled them to his barn. They were probably bewildered why he didn't even congratulate them or shoot the critter

What can I say... Its great to have hounds! They keep our lives rich.

Happens fairly regular at my place.

i live in Marine Corps housing. the Marines don't have a lot of indoor cats and don't do much w/ their outdoor cats except get pissy when you tell them to keep their little bird killing diseased vermin home.
greyhounds aren't exactly tree dogs, but what they catch they sure as heck will kill if they can. long stories short, every so often i find a dead cat in the dog's yard and about every third one will show up on a lost cat poster. sometimes i'm even tempted to let them know what happened to their filthy little beast.

Spring before last I took the time to plant a nice garden, Went out to weed one morning to find a bunch of cat crap in my tomatos. Well that tells me why the dogs freak out in the morning, but since I had got my dogs most of the nasty cats had stayed away. Wife left early one morning (she loves cats). I wake up to dogs and go to the window to hollar at them and I see the nasty little young cat crapping in my tomamtos, so I did what anybody would do, run out in my underwear and turn them loose, it never had a chance my male hit it in the garden like a freight train and it was all but over buy the time the little female got there, I went in and got a paper sack put the cat in it threw it in the trash petted the dogs and went back in. My wife still dosn't know what flattened the tomato cage and tore up her green beans

When I first got my hounds, I lived in town but in a culdesac. I actually had a 1/3 of acre lot.It was pie shaped and I my back yard was the length of 2 of my neighbors back yards...I had my yard split in half with my kennels in the back section next to my bedroom window...
I sometimes let my dogs run loose in that second yard overnight. In the summer time in Phoenix , it gets daylight around 0430.One morning, I had my bedroom window open and I could hear my sprinklers go on . A short while later I heard a kind of low growling or something. I was half asleep and was trying to figure out if it was something I needed to investigate or not. I finally got up and opened my window all the way to see what it was. What I saw was my 2 hounds, each with an end of my neighbors cat in there mouth. They were having a kitty tug of war..The really bad part was it was the cat that belonged to the elderly lady across the fence of my backyard. If that lady had seen what was taking place with her cat, she probably would have coded on the spot. I pushed out the screen and ran out to my dogs with just my scivvies on. I ran over to my dogs and started pulling them off the cat as best I could. I ended up all wet with grass all over me holding this very dead cat above my head kicking at my dogs. I was right in the middle of the yard when I hear...Here Kitty Kitty...It ws the elderly gal calling out her back door for her kitty

I froze like a deer in the headlights man....There I was , a Phoenix cop standing in my backyard in my underwear holding that lady's dead cat over my head ...The highest stages of panic set in ...I didnt know what to do..I was still kicking at my dogs when I made a run for the kennels . I hit the concrete in the first kennel and oh what a ride..Wet concrete and wet bare feet ...I ended up on my back with a dead cat and 2 hounds on my belly...At that time I decided to do the stand up thing and take responsibility for what had happened ...WRONG...I got to my feet,threw the cat in the dog house, closed the gate and jumped back in my bedroom window...I stood there by the window crouched down and hiding. My wife looked over at me and asked me if I had lost my mind ...When I was certain I was in the clear I ran in the bathroom and jumped in the shower....

About an half hour later, I walked out to he kennel with my big trash bag and fished out the now 4 foot long cat and stuffed it as fast as I could...I felt like I was in a scene of Mission Impossible making my way out to the trash bin out front...If anyone saw me, they never metioned it..My wife sure got a kick out of it .,,,Coop

Coop, that is.....priceless!

Ya...It was an adventure to say the least...My wife got a lot of mileage on that story...Coop