one vote for walker here.

My uncle bought a Walker coon hound "Buzz" when he was about 8 years old (the dog) and that was the most amazing coon dog we have ever seen. He was the only dog we needed and we often got alot more coons than the local guys with several dogs. He would catch alot of coons on the ground and kill them onthe ground and he could run anything. He is now 15 years old and has seen his better days. His eyes and ears are getting bad, and we don't think he can smell very good anymore because the last few times out he didn't do much for us. ALthough last year when he was 14 years old he had one really good night and we ended up coming home with 25 coons, it was amazing. Before that our record was 18 coons in one night. He has been a great dog and we will miss him. He definetly had a good life, he should have been dead long ago, dog fights, coon fights, he got shot, we lost him for 6 days and he was almost dead when we found him, but he is still kicken at 15 yrs.

Last year we got 2 female Walker pups from a guy in Illinois. They were pretty young so we didn't get too far with them last year, and they were kind of gun shy. We have been working with them and one has really come around and likes to fight coons and is no longer gun-shy, but the other is turning out to be pretty useless. Buzz set our expectations so high that I think we expect too much out of the new dogs.