Talk:Coonhound

Improvement
This article is listed in the 100 breeds for deletion/review/declasification but has no templates on it? What would be the most obvious way to work on it? ? LoraxJr 17:22, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Re: Controversy
The previous edit added a controversy section. It described a speculative history in which the dog was used to hunt escaped slaves. The cite for this was a blog post. According to the blogger's own statements in that page, she was not familiar with the breed prior to forming that opinion. Upon first hearing of the breed, she immediately attributed a racial origin to the name, "[shot] angry yet blank stare[s]" at the people around her, and then "the limited history [she] was able to find was not enough to convince [her] that it wasn’t related to the history of slave tracking." She didn't find proof that her imagination was wrong, so she held to it and then it was repeated here. Naked speculation by someone utterly unfamiliar with the subject matter does not merit publication.

The reported AKC response to a sought name change seems rather detailed to be in error, but I was unable to confirm it. Perhaps they didn't post it to the internet? If someone else finds that statement, please add the citation. Also, the first sentence of the quote is grammatically incorrect. They "fully understand that the complex and offensive use of the word" does what? This is either an incomplete quote or grounds for a [sic] flag. Visvires (talk) 08:12, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

I came to this page after viewing episode 3 of the first season of True Detective when Woody Harelson's character clarified to a black detective that coonhounds were raccoon hounds, the implication being that he was rejecting the possibility that they were for chasing slaves. There was no further clarification of the historicity of this interpretation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.67.162.57 (talk) 09:44, 7 July 2024 (UTC)