The Coonhound Advisor

06/04/2008	GPS Systems in Nite Hunts, Something Stinks, Strike Position Question, Who Has Authority to Assign Non-Hunting Judge and Calling Time Out not Always an Option
03/06/2008	Complaints: Master of Hounds, Licensed Event Participants and Event Participants Reminders
03/31/2007	Declared Treed But Not Declared Struck, Babbling and Bells
12/13/2006	Strike Positions Available, Catching Coon on Ground, Didn't See The Situation But Are Asked To Vote
10/24/2006	Casting Dogs Where Guide Doesn't Have Permission, Showing Dogs In The Proper Order, Dogs Barking In The Box
08/24/2006	Demanding Ten Minutes of Shining Time - Dogs Out of Hearing - Signatures on Scorecards - Deadline Reminders
08/24/2006	Following Procedures and Filing a Formal Complaint
08/24/2006	Shut Out Scoring Situation - Tardy Handlers / Cast Lost on Way to Woods -
06/08/2006	Veterans Casts, Declaring Dogs Struck After the Fact, Grand Nites at the Local Club
04/24/2006	Dog Is Back, but Handler Is Not - Delaying Completion of Cast
04/24/2006	Squalling, Boats, Coon Crossing Road, Place of Refuge and Extending Deadlines
01/12/2006	Refusing Entries and Stationary Rules/Previously Scored Trees
01/01/2006	Dog Moving From Tree to Tree, Dogs Declared Treed / Coon Caught, Reminder to Clubs Regarding Formal Complaints and Honesty and Integrity
12/12/2005	Scratch or Minus, Babbling, and Bells
11/12/2005	Communications Policy and Minusing Dogs For Quitting A Track
10/12/2005	Scoring Situation, Stationary, Dogs Checking In, and MOH Reminder
08/22/2005	You would think after all these years of applying the Nite Hunt Honor Rules, that every question would have a solid, though admittedly not always easy, answer.
08/12/2005	Youth and Parents and Eight Minutes
07/06/2005	Judges, Drawing Casts and Judges, Immediate Family and 2-1-1 Votes.
06/12/2005	To Minus or Circle, Authority of a Hunting Judge, Recasting
05/06/2005	Important Entry Information For Licensed Officials and Club Officers, The Apprentice, A Class Win Is All I Need and Spectators
04/12/2005	From the Message Board
03/12/2005	Time Out/End of Hunt, All Dogs Declared Treed and Now you do. Now you don’t.

In This Issue of Coonhound Bloodlines... "Success Isn't Going To Happen Overnight" Laura Bell In the outreaches of Owatonna, Minnesota, you can often hear the sounds of late night barks emerge from the woods, while the owner of the coonhounds contently listens to the track unfold. The track barks fade and soon the Walker hounds have fallen treed deep in the timber, and without a doubt, they have the coon. Making his way to the hounds is their owner, 16-year-old Brandon Becker, who spends many nights like this in the woods with his hounds - nearly every night in the week, he says. Read more here Learn more about Coonhound Bloodlines

This Weekend At UKC Bluetick Days Robinson, Illinois - The nation’s largest UKC Bluetick event for six years running, National Bluetick Days will gather Bluetick Coonhound fanciers in Palestine, Illinois from May 15 to 17. Sponsored by the Bluetick Breeders of America, a UKC Chartered Breed Association, and hosted by the Wabash Valley CHC, the event kicks off Thursday and will feature coonhound nite hunts and bench shows, with Purina Points events Friday and Saturday. For more information, check out the upcoming events page. Find an event in your area.

About UKC Coonhounds Hunting with hounds is an American Tradition that still enjoys immense popularity. UKC's competitive hound programs offer events for coonhound enthusiasts belonging to over 1,300 clubs throughout the United States and Canada. In fact, one of the UKC's series of events enters more than 17,000 coonhounds annually and ranks as the largest sporting dog event of any kind in the world! Read more here.