Chris Snyder
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: SE Iowa
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Memory Lane
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Originally posted by Blacklabel
I always like a dog with some disability, leg gone, eye knocked out.... it makes you proud when they can still do it with the best. I tried to buy a one eyed pup and guy wouldnt sell him. He was the first to start. Just think they are special.
Wow Blacklabel, I haven't been on here for a few months. Don't even have a dog anymore, but it sure is fun to come on here and see something about an old dog I put so much time in following. I had a lot of adventures with that old mutt. Raised him from a pup. Sold him to Joe when he was 5 or 6. He was born in August of 1999. Big litter of pups. Dad was TJ and Ace, mom was nothing fancy but could tree a coon.
Joey could run and tree a coon at 10 mo. Lost him for a week and got hung in a fence by his back leg. Neighbor kids found him and took him to their place and called me. His leg was frozen solid. Doc amputated it that next morning and he was treeing coons again two months later.
I owned him for 5 or so years and sold him to Joe. Joe and Kelly Hyde were the only guys who ever believed in him enough to breed a female to him. I think all the stories scared a lot of Redbone guys away. He was trashy, but as lazy as most redbones were at the time, I didn't care. Joe would always fall off on a coon. And would tree one almost any night of the year. He was deep and lonely before it was cool. I saw that dog do some amazing things, but had a lot of nights I wanted to shoot him too. Hard headed and independent.
He's died from a twisted gut. He's buried in Joe's front yard with a set of worn out boots as his headstone. As it should be.
If I was 15 years younger, single and self employed or un-employed, I could hunt a dog like that again...lol Sorry for the novel.
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