well since you are only fourteen you should try alot of different things, find some people in your area that hunt, go with them and stuff, personally i hunt Walkers, along with %75 of other coonhunters. and I have hunted since i was , well as long as i can remember, and i have hunted with good curs, but they were squirell (<----Spelling) dogs and the ones that would tree cons, were all pretty ill on tree. I have recently been hunting with alot of Tony Clevenger's blueticks and they are amazing dogs.They are very lound and do not act like blueticks, they act like walkers, 120 to150 bpm, and very hard hunters, and the last 3 litters every single pup had ran and treed it's own coon by 5 months old. Well that is my opinion, but.... not a cur.. Tim (east Tenn)