Here’s an article I wrote on the Origins of the Golden Retriever.
I will have a blog entry within the next week explaining in further detail why I doubt the story of the bloodhound cross in goldens, because it comes from Elma Stonex, the breed historian who exposed the Russian circus dog malarky, second hand. In that second hand source, it says that the dogs from the bloodhound (St. Hubert Hound) cross were aggressive. Bloodhounds (St. Hubert Hounds) are NOT aggressive dogs. They are not really trainable, but one thing they are not is aggressive. In fact, the only hounds that are aggressive are the curs (including the Catahoula Leopard Dog), some of the German hounds, the Plott hound (which is a German-derived hound), and dachshunds (and they aren’t THATaggressive).
I also have another article here on the Treeing Walker Coonhound. The person who started this title at Helium thought that this breed is the same as the Walker Hound, which is actually the ancestor of the Treeing Walker. The Walker hound is an early line of American Foxhound, which was descended froma pack of foxhounds brought to Virginia in 1742 by Thomas Walker. This was one of the earliest imports of European hounds to the colonies.
I do know my scent hounds, having grown up in the scent hound capital of North America. I believe we are second only to France in the number of hound breeds we have created!
I also have one here on my own dogs, which is personal without being romantic portrayal of growing up with farm dogs. I have included my first golden retriever in this essay.
I hope you like them!
