“Listen,” Uncle Sonny said, “the dogs are treed.” I was lying on my back, atop the dog box in the back of the truck, looking up at an inky black sky laced with uncountable numbers of twinkling stars.

ALBANY, GA. - When Trevino Vawters served as a Navy medic in Iraq, he dreamed of his family and the floppy-eared, baying hounds he follows on nocturnal raccoon hunts in the uplands and swamps of ...

Not only are some hounds bawling their last trail howls these days, but some hunters are howling notes of protest at legislation that prohibits them from hunting bear and bobcat with dogs. Bill SB1221 ...

When Colt Baldwin talks about coon hunting, it"s easy to see his love of the sport. The 22-year-old from Anthon, Iowa, has been running hounds after raccoons all his life. "Ever since I was a little ...

On Labor Day there's a group of people who gather in an Ala. cemetery to honor the hard work of man's best friend. In this encore presentation, NPR's Debbie Elliott takes us to a remote hillside where ...