Aggression - Redbone Coonhound - Page 1

I have a 5 yr old redbone coonhound and have recently had to move for a job.  My new apartment doesnt take dogs so my parents offered to take her for a year til I found another place.  They have two 7 yr old female yellow labs that she gets along with fairly well.  She recently starting randomly snapping at my parents and has now bitten both of them.  She goes from super sweet and laying on their laps to they walk in a different room and turn around and she snaps at them.  I need help.  I really dont want to get rid of her but now both my parents are scared to death of her.  I need advice quick.

She needs a check up at the vet's.

She needs to go coonhunting.... Dog is bored to death.

It is too difficult to ascertain why your dog is snapping without more details or actually seeing it in person.  I second taking her to the vet's first to try to rule out health problem causing the issues.  If nothing can be found, then you need a behaviorist to see her in person and learn more about the situation.  

Never saw a coonhound go around biting people just cause it doesn't "go hunting".
Been around a lot of hounds over the years, and never heard of one biting cause it's bored.

I have one next to me right now biting me cuz he is bored...lol

And ill bet a $1000 a vet will not find anything wrong neurological that is suddenly making this dog bite... Wanna bet? Some hounds can be very serious dogs and need to be worked/hunted exercise just like a gsd. One that is truly bred for hunting coon or big game is not gonna take well to being left at moms house. I've seen big game bred blueticks that would make better guard dogs than many gsds. I competition hunted coon dogs and run them on big game for many years. Nt.ch. hills northern blue buddy was my last competition dog. This dog needs something to do.

That's nice.

I just told my bluetick that if he don't stop biting me I'm calling in a canine behaviorist..... Lmao

The original poster has not given sufficient information about the dog's history or current situation.  But at 5 yrs old, if this dog has suddenly taken to snapping and biting without any previous indication of this kind of behavior  (which I think is what the poster is alluding too)  then simple boredom and desire to hunt is not the what is causing the dog to bite.  

I have friends who raise, train and hunt coondogs (blueticks, walkers and english) I've been around plenty of these dogs and have gone with them on hunts and UKC hunt/shows.  Very, very few of the coonhounds that I've met have ever displayed any kind of aggression towards people, even the dogs that were not being hunted or worked and just allowed to languish at home or kennel.  The majority have either been very people friendly, or aloof but congenial.   The coonhound is not and was never meant to be aggressive towards humans.   

If the root cause of this dog's problem was simply boredom, it's behavior would be manifesting differently.