April 2021 Coonhound Advisor

April 1, 2021

Source: Trevor Wade, UKC Coonhound Program Manager
Email: twade@ukcdogs.com

One thing that often comes up in my thoughts is the dynamic of a lot of the coon clubs today. It seems like every week we get a couple calls from struggling clubs looking for ways to make it. Maybe the membership has gotten older. Maybe the ideas and hunts that used to work arent working anymore. On that same note, we get the same number of calls a week from people interested in opening a club. People with innovative new ideas and fire in their eyes.

Why is it then, that most of the time, those calls come from folks who are twenty miles apart?

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