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Murphy’s Gatlinburg Getaway Part II: The Smoky Mountain Dog House and Patriot Park

The hotel and Doggywood was the focus of Part I. Part II covers the rest of Murph’s big vacation adventures. The Smoky Mountain Dog House It poured the morning we planned to take Murphy for a hike on one of the only two trails that allowed dogs in the Smoky Mountain National Park. So we decided to do some shopping instead in a place Murph was welcome too: the Smoky Mountain Dog House. (Someplace I found while I was planning our Smoky Mountain getaway.) Me and Murph in front of their big sign. Another sign in front of the store … Continue reading →

Bluetick Coonhound

The Bluetick Coonhound is a newer breed of dog that isn’t even recognized by the American Kennel Club yet. (They have been assigned the Hound Group designation, though, and breeders are in the process of getting recognition for them.) Their faces and ears resound “hound,” and their distinctive spots and flecking often leave people mistaking them for Dalmatians. (They are not descended from the latter, however.) Origins Blueticks originated from English foxhounds, cur dogs, and Bleu Gascogne French hounds, and were originally designated as English Coonhounds. In the 1940s, breeders in the Southern United States, primarily Louisiana, broke away from … Continue reading →