sleepy head
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These are the hounds and the people who owned them and gave us the dogs we have today. As you can see, each strain had a phenotype (physical characteristic) which identified them from the others. If a man had hounds, raised and bred them for his own use, these hounds then reflected on that man. They were given that man’s name for identification purposes, as a strain of dogs. Through many years of breeding, all of the dogs mentioned here were at one time or another crossed on each other and were finally to become known in 1903 by U.K.C. as the English Coonhound.
When these dogs became known as the English breed, standards were set: height, length, color, ear length, etc. Breeders started to follow this standard which was set up by the U.K.C. and the breed association. After seeing what they were capable of producing, houndsmen started to breed for certain colors.
By 1943, the breed was producing four different colors of hounds. The original English, which was white and any good hound color (may I add still remains so today); the solid blue dog (Bluetick); the tri-colored dog (Walker); and the Redtick hound.
In 1945 the Bluetick and Walker separated from the English breed and were chartered by U.K.C. as separate breeds. We then had six breeds of coon hounds. There was a Redtick association formed, but never developed into its own breed. A lot of breeders will state they have a strain of Walkers or Blueticks that is pure. The truth is, if they go back five to seven generations in the pedigree of known ancestry, there will be some or all English hounds.
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