Rocketman55
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Registered: Aug 2008
Location: SE Ohio, Glouster
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Nt.Ch. Raw Dawg Rowdy

This is a picture of my son, David holding one of my all time favorite hounds. This picture was taken in about 1990, or 1991. In this picture is my Nt.Ch Raw Dawg Rowdy. Rowdy was Rocket's father. Rowdy was born in 1986. If there ever were two dogs that looked a lot alike, sounded a lot alike, tracked a lot alike, and treed a lot alike it was these two dogs. Rocket was a little better strike dog, but this ole hound Rowdy, caught more coons on the ground for me than any other hound I have ever owned. Rowdy ran a coon, a whole coon, and nothing but a coon, from the time he was a pup at 7 months old. I tried to sell him when he was 7 months old to a man. This man came down, I took Rowdy, his mom Hooper Ridge Queen, and Rowdy's littermate "Smoke" to a cornfield just up the road. It was Rowdy's 1st trip to the woods but smoke I had been taking some and he was doing it all and pretty to boot. I cut them two pups and their mom in that cornfield, Queen struck, followed by smoke and then Rowdy joined in. Queen treed followed by smoke, and then rowdy. they had a cub up a bush. We pulled them off and recut into the same cornfield. They soon struck another track, Queen went left, the two pups went right, Queen treed to the left, the pups treed to the right (again rowdy's 1st trip to the woods) we went in and they both had coons. That man bought Smoke and left me with Rowdy simply because Smoke was a bigger more leggy hound and dark blue to boot. Sometimes I wish I would have kept Smoke, but he got a home for life, and without Rowdy, their would not have been a Rocket, LOL.
I just found this picture the other day and it brought back some wonderful memories of my son when he was just a little boy. He is now a grown man, 31 years old and a licensed barber. David is starting to get that coon hunting bug, so maybe this Ole Hooper Ridge tradition will carry on a few more years, lol!
Here is Rowdy's pedigree
--------------------Nt.Ch. Brewers Red River Spot
------------Nt.Ch. Bates Screaming Deamon
--------------------Gr.Nt.Ch. Bowman's Lady Bird
------Tree Banging Buddy(the best coon catcher I ever owned)
--------------------Nt.Ch Broussards Beechwood Man
------------Mayles Beech River Dolly
--------------------Massengill's Red Fannie
Nt.Ch Raw Dawg Rowdy
--------------------Nt.Ch.Bates Blue Kash
------------Gr.Nt.Ch. Whitts Blue Jim
--------------------Gr.Nt.Ch. Parkers Rambling Sue
------Nt.Ch. Hooper Ridge Queen
--------------------PR Carr's Red Zebe
------------Mayles Hooper Ridge Joy
--------------------Mayles Beech River Dolly
I find it interesting that Bates Screaming Deamon and Parkers Rambling Sue were 1/2 brother/sister as both dogs were out of Nt.Ch Brewers Red River Spot.
Thanks for reading!!
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Nt.Ch Raw Dawg Rowdy
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