"avocado" wrote in message
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If the dog "trees" racoons, might it not also try to "tree" a 3-year-old?
I
don't know, but I was just wondering.


Not in the sense of actually chasing him up a tree (unless he was willing to
go), but it would definitely be a game to bark tree on someone, say,
standing on a bed. I've known beagles who would use their tree bark on
cookies on the kitchen counter. Got your attention, which is their whole
intention.

A coon hound doesn't necessarily *want* to tree a coon. What he really
wants to do is catch it. It's not like a herding instinct. The treeing
aspect comes in when the coon naturally climbs the tree to escape and the
hound remains at the bottom, marking the coon's location.

~~Judy