“The raccoon is probably the meanest little animal. ... He’ll tear up your barn.”
Glen Cogle with Storm, his four-year-old coonhound, in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., in February. By Eddie Dean March 18 at 9:00 AM "Hear how his bark has got short? He's got him treed!" We are deep in the woods on the side of a rocky ridge in far western Loudoun County. It is dark and muddy, and the only sound is the faraway yelping of a coonhound named Storm.
Only animal rights activists seem ready to defend the ring-tailed bandit . “The last thing that we need in a society wracked by violence is for yet another day of the week to be allotted for people who enjoy killing to go out into the woods and destroy animal families,” says Catie Cryar, senior media liaison for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Eventually, the market for raccoon pelts dried up and development moved in. But the raccoons and Cogle are still here, running around in whatever woods they can find, squeezed between subdivisions and vineyards. The challenge for Cogle is getting permission. It used to be as easy as asking farmers, who’d usually holler “Have at it!”— happy to be rid of an animal known for killing chickens.
In the woods, Cogle clambers over fallen trunks of locust trees covered in moss and darts through the underbrush. It’s uncharted territory, but he’s prepared. Gone are the days when getting lost was part of the hunt. Cogle uses a high-powered LED cap light and a GPS device to keep tabs on Storm, who has treed his quarry about a half-mile away.
Cogle hunts other game, such as bobcats and wild turkeys. But those excursions are solo and lack the comradeship he gets from hunting with Storm. Cogle has raised him from a pup; he’s descended from a prestigious line of coonhounds from Mount Airy, Md. “He’s not the best dog I’ve ever had, but he’s all the dog I need,” Cogle says. “He’s a little smarter than he should be, but that makes up for my stupidity.
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