Redbone Hounds

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My Wife Christine and my 4 children Dj at 16 Chelsey at 14 Morgan at 10 and Savannah at the age of 5 all help with the running of the kennel and taking care of the every day chores and responsibilities. We have a 15 acre facility with a nice creek bordered by tons of trees right across the street for training purposes and limited hunting.
This line of dogs has been hand picked from dogs all across the United States. I have spent a considerable amount of time researching the blood lines that we have brought into the kennel and feel that the males and females in our kennel will reproduce exactly what we are looking for in a hound.

Our goal is to improve the Redbone Coonhound Breed!

I want to make this line of dogs available to all of those who are willing to put the time into a dog to make sure that it has ample opportunity to hunt and do the things that it was bred for. I would like everyone to experience the same level of success and pleasure that my wife and I enjoy with these hounds. We have found this line of Redbone Coonhounds to contain all of the characteristics necessary to fill our wants and desires in a hound. Most of the dogs in my kennel came from a man by the name of Tom Solberg. Tom has done alot of the work for me already in putting lines together that reproduce time after time after time. The following are what I find in these dogs and what we try to reproduce in a hound-

1st Disposition I will not tolerate a dog that is aggressive on the tree or in the kennel and I can not stand a dog that is shy or cowers down when approached. These type of dogs are culled out of the kennel immediately!!!

2nd Great treeing instincts and hunting ability. A dog must have the desire and ability to hunt and tree at the end of the track. Some dogs just do not have it.

3rd Great looks I really like the dark cherry red bone hound

4th Excellent build and conformation. Boone went from registered to grand champion on the bench and never lost a single show. He still has not lost a show yet in the grand champion class and has been qualified for the world 3 times

5th A Hound must have a good solid Mouth It drives me crazy to listen to a dog running around squeaking all night or even worse listen to one that has some awful squeal that I have no way to describe but you know the sound I am talking about.

6th I want a dog that is open on track but not to quiet and at the same time I don't want to here him/her opening every time a foot hits the ground. To speed up and open a little more as a track warms up is desirable trait but to be opening at the same pace at the end of the track as the start makes it pretty hard to call a dog and figure out just how things are going if you are not right on top of them.

7th They have to be smart I want a dog that is able to think and figure things our for him/her self they should be able to figure out where that animal went without me having to climb up the mountain and show them.

We are realistic with our expectations and know that every dog we produce won't meet all of the criteria named above but we feel that the majority of the dogs that we turn out if placed in the proper environment with the right training will!!

The first and foremost thing that we do here is big game hunt and these dogs get it done. We run all season for lion and bobcat. I am self employed and the spring and the summer are my busiest times of the year so while I have a desire to hunt bears I have not been able to come up with the time. This line of dogs had been used on bear from Montana to Wisconsin and it's reported that they have no back up in them!

In the summer time we spend alot of time racoon hunting mainly to keep the dogs in shape and to promote the kennel as well. I enjoy competition hunting as it gives us a chance to meet other hounds men in our area and keep on top of the issues that come up state wide in our sport as houndsmen.

Registered or Not
I do not feel that a set of papers will put the meat in the tree but they sure as hell tell you what the cross was that made the dog that does. How can you reproduce the best dog of your life if you do not know what the dogs were that made it??

Our Boone dog is one of those once in a lifetime dogs. By the time he is 4 years old he will be a 4 way grand champion. He is already a Grand Champion and he only needs one win for nite champion one more win for field trial champion and he should have them in the first week of November 05. I have only had him in one water race in which he decided that the bank was a faster way around to this coon that was coming to him without having to chase it. I have no doubt that he will make a swim champion as well, he has the desire and in the hunts the dogs swims more creeks and rivers than most of the dogs he is hunting against put together.

I have spent alot of time hunting with other houndsmen in the west and east alike and while there are guys out there with dogs from other breeds that can get it done I have found that the REDBONE'S from this line seem to perform on a higher level with more consistency than any of the others that I have hunted with.

One thing I can truthfully say is that this line of dogs if not trashy!! Period I have not been able to ever get one of these dogs to chase a deer, elk, skunk, or anything else that I did not want my dogs on.

Boone Bless his sole has made a liar out of me about the fact that he will not trash and recently decided that porcupines are of a great fascination to him. I have never treed a porcupine outside of a competition hunt to this point so we have not been able to have a we shall not chase porcupine lesson yet. In preparation for this day I have asked alot of the old timers what to do about this problem and have been told that you will never break a good bear dog from treeing porcupines. I am told that they have the same scent to them as a bear and that if I try to break him of porcupines that he will probably not chase bear after that?? I do not know?? So if you have any information on this let me know.