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Blueticks make the case for the whole family: famously gentle, patient and affectionate at home, real couch dogs once the day's exercise is done. The challenges of coonhound ownership live outdoors and in the soundtrack, the voice and the nose, rather than in the indoor temperament, which is the easiest part of the breed.
Coonhound people are devoted lifers who consider the singing a feature, and in the right setting it absolutely is. The Bluetick suits rural or semi rural households with space, secure fencing and neighbours at a comfortable distance for the music.
Owners who do well with this breed tend to share one habit: they planned the dog's day as deliberately as their own, and the dog repaid the planning with an easy temperament.
The temperament record reads: Patient, gentle, determined and led by the nose. At 3 out of 5 for energy, the Bluetick Coonhound is active without being extreme, a fair match for households that walk 60 to 90 minutes a day.
The fixed facts behind every answer here: large size, 45 to 80 lb, 11 to 12 years of life, and a temperament summarised as Patient, gentle, determined and led by the nose.
For the record's growth table: the Bluetick Coonhound passes 8 weeks at about 5 to 10 lb, 9 months at about 31 to 54 lb, 18 months at about 43 to 76 lb, and tops out at 45 to 80 lb and 21 to 27 inches. Standard colors: mottled blue. The breed belongs to the Hound group and its home ground is United States.
Measured against a lifespan of 11 to 12 years, none of this is a short experiment. Owners who planned for the whole arc, young dog and old dog alike, are consistently the ones who would choose the Bluetick Coonhound again. For the numbers in one place, the Bluetick Coonhound profile collects the size, cost, exercise and health record behind this page.
If this question is part of choosing the breed, run it against your worst week rather than your best: the exercise in the rain, the grooming in a busy month, the dog care during a family illness.
Every breed carries a short list of conditions it sees more often than average, and the Bluetick Coonhound, living 11 to 12 years, is no exception. The profile's health record names them with notes; screening breeding stock for those conditions is the buyer's strongest protection. The breed quiz on this site runs the same record against your household answers, which is a useful second opinion.
The standard range is 21 to 27 inches at the shoulder and 45 to 80 lb, with a typical adult near 62 lb. The growth table on the Bluetick Coonhound profile shows the expected weight at each age on the way there. The record's numbers, 3/5 energy and 3/5 trainability among them, are averages from real dogs, and meeting several adults shows the spread around them.
The record's verdict is With enough exercise. Suitability turns on the daily routine more than the floor plan: an exercised Bluetick Coonhound, given its 60 to 90 minutes, settles in small spaces, while the same dog left idle in a large house becomes the problem.
A grown Bluetick Coonhound needs 60 to 90 minutes of exercise daily; bred in United States with a Patient, gentle, determined and led by the nose temperament, what...
For the coat: a mottled, blue ticked pattern of dark flecks over the body that gives the breed its blue cast at a distance.
Only in exceptional circumstances: an owner who is outdoors for hours every day and works the dog properly.
Last updated: November 6, 2026