Good luck and happy hunting with your new hound !!! We have a female Walker that trees squirrels & coons and we really enjoy her. I know that two of her pups have inherited this trait and been treeing squirrels in the yard since about 4 months old. My friend has a black and tan x bluetick cross that also does very well on both. He was trained alongside her curs for squirrel and with hounds and one dual cur for coon. In response to all of the argument over the bird dog issue, if you look on pg. 90 of the 2009 December issue of Coonhound Bloodlines there is an article and picture of how pointer bird dogs were crossed into the St. Hubert hounds, foxhounds, and bloodhounds to produce today's tree hounds. I have personally never seen a pointing coondog but I have also never personally seen a WRLDNITECH hound, doesnt mean they dont exhist. I do, however, have a full blooded registered female Treeing Walker that is a NICE coondog that will retrieve dowels and bumpers out of the lake or in the yard alongside our lab all day long.... she is the first hound pictured below in my signature.
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~*Kayla*~
RBIMBS NITECH FCH UWP CGRCH CH INT CH AKC CCH PR' K&Z's Disaster N the Making
MBIMBS RO1 UWP CGRCH CH IABCA BIS INT CH NAT CH HNR CH AKC CCH PR' Kayla's TreeRizin Hot Nite Roxy, CGC TDI
RBIMBS CCH CH PR' Warrior River Medusa
CCH GRCH AKC CCH PR' Kayla's Lil Bit of Honey
UWP CCH GRCH PR' Warrior River Karma N Effect
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CH Cross Check's Warrior River Rimfire
~Gone But Always In My Heart~
CH AKC CCH PR' Kayla's Copperhead Baby Boy
GRCH PR' K&Z's She's Krazy Hammered
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