Arlis was shipped to us in California as a pup from the kennel of Jim and Mary Wale in Michigan. He lived to coon hunt and was a super-hard tree dog.
Sounder is a pup from the first cross of Arlis and Jessie. He was raised and trained primarily on bear and bobcat by Liz Bolin of Quincy, CA. We bought him back in December '99 and got him going on coon, but he would much rather run bear. He spent the last years of his life hunting bear, cat and lion in Oregon.
Big looks a lot like his dad, but got his mom's coloring. He's got a lot of speed and can move a track pretty fast. He hunts hard, isn't afraid to get into any kind of country, and swims good. Big was much louder as a young dog, but he's still got decent volume. He has a bawl on track and chops/bawls on the tree.
Big is nearly blind in one eye from an accident, but it doesn't slow him down at all. He likes to fight a coon and is a pretty good kill dog. Sometimes he'll even retrieve a shot coon if you can't get to it.
So far he has two litters on the ground born in April 2007 and May 2010.
Update Nov '11: We are looking for a co-owner for Big, asap. Ideally, we'd really like someone who'd like to finish him to GrNite. Email us if you're interested.
He's a 2012 UKC Performance Sire.
Rebel was from the second cross of Arlis and Jessie. He was indisputably one of the top coondogs on the West Coast during his lifetime. He had a huge mouth, handled pretty easily and was naturally straight on coon. We never needed to put a shock collar on him when he was hunting. He was tight-mouthed and wouldn't open unless he had a coon track started well enough that he could nearly always finish it. He ran a few bears in his life but definitely preferred coon. Rebel had a competitive streak and definitely knew the difference between a competition hunt and a pleasure hunt. He trained every pup we took to the woods for 10 years.
Update Dec '09: Rebel's picture has been featured on the cover of UKC's Coonhound Bloodlines magazine this month. It proved to be a very meaningful tribute to an outstanding coondog as we lost him on December 10th.
All three of the above males were hard hunters and extremely loud, hard tree dogs.
