LA; All my moms side of the family is from over near Brookhaven, McComb, Area. I remember one of my cousins getting whipped halfway across the yard for petting the coon dogs. None of the rest of us ever crossed that line after that.
My Uncle said those dogs are for coon huntin and that's all they are for!
When it was time to go he would open the pens and those dogs were so excited ! They ran barking baying and climbed in that truck.
Its a lot of fun chasing through those thick woods when those dogs got one treed..
Part of it sounds just like my uncle when he was running the dogs. Makes me want to hit the woods right now...