Talk:Redbone Coonhound

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Merge

I have merged some content from Redbone Hound. There may be errors. --Gray Porpoise^{cetaceans have large brains} 21:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I changed the breed cross from Irish Setter/Bllodhound to Foxhound/Bloodhoud. I have never heard of the coonhound being even remotely related to an irish setter. This is erroneous information. I confirmed by looking up the breed history in UKC, which had also stated breed merge to be foxhound and not irish setter.67.171.24.58 (talk) 22:25, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Poor illustrations

Photos illustrating this page supposedly show Redbone Coonhounds. The standard allows a 'dark nose' but these are all black nosed.

A better choice of illustrations should be made. 184.5.126.188 (talk) 01:09, 18 December 2015 (UTC) 184.5.126.188 (talk) 01:17, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

The photos ARE purebred Redbones. "Dark" can be interpreted as "black or dark brown" since black is a dark color--and in any case, the standard says "a black nose is preferred". The pictures are also the best available on Commons. If you have better ones, I'd suggest you create an account and upload them. One of the problems with the hunting breed articles is that we have a lot of people who'd rather show their fat little pet dogs lying on the couch than a dog doing what it was bred for. The dogs are good examples of the standard, as far as I'm concerned. Also, the pup in the snow has a brown nose, not a black one. White Arabian Filly (Neigh) 01:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Recent reverts

@Harrisj224:

I'm sorry to have to undo all the recent edits since they were made in good faith, but the wording "should" is intentional here and is taken from the official breed standards. Not all dogs of the same breed will conform to the standard. No matter how well a dog is bred or how good the parents are, you can get dogs that don't fit the standard in one way or another. Like they're too big, the wrong color, etc. Doesn't mean they're a bad pet--or in this case a bad hunting dog--but they can't be shown. So, what might appear to be an opinion is one; the opinion of the breed registry. You're correct in thinking that the opinion of some random person can't be used, but the breed registry is a permissible source for this kind of article. (Wording it like that will also keep people from making silly complaints about crossbred or badly bred dogs that they own but don't look like the standard, so the standard is wrong according to them...) White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 21:22, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

they are red — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.33.149.113 (talk) 13:52, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Health Section

@Traumnovelle

Would the health information be better placed on the main Coonhound page since it's not specific to Redbones, and the Coonhound page currently doesn't have any health info? Hotdogsyrup (talk) 19:32, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Possibly, I looked through several studies but found nothing. I believe the issue is that coonhounds weren't recognised as individual breeds by any other KC until recently so most studies simply lumped them together.

I did find this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5945203/ however there is nothing in the study to guarantee the dogs aren't related which would skew any results with such a small size.

A see also to the coonhound page health would be useful but there needs to be actual information for a health section to exist.

Traumnovelle (talk) 19:51, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Hmm sounds like it would be better then to include more general health info on the coonhound page and maybe include the source you've just linked on this page. I found this secondary source that focuses a bit on redbones too: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=bCtWCgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT15&dq=redbone+coonhound&ots=IhrCXC8K0u&sig=G9NyIEbYptUScP27F9mrL85XvhA#v=onepage&q=redbone%20coonhound&f=false but I'm unable to confirm the references it uses.

I'm going to add a health section to the main coonhound page, if you'd like to move the info over feel free to do so! Hotdogsyrup (talk) 23:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

A see also linking to general Coonhound health would probably be best but can you have an empty heading with just a see also? Traumnovelle (talk) 02:25, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

I've changed it to a "See also" section with same style as other dog pages, and linked to the coonhound health section! I also moved the info over to the main page. Hotdogsyrup (talk) 22:48, 1 March 2024 (UTC)