After high school she tried college but got thrown out for raising coonhounds in her dorm room. |
Coonhounds are scent hounds and run their game entirely by smell. |
Coonhounds were originally used to hunt raccoons and their long ears are used for tracking, not enhanced hearing. |
Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1961, Shorter now lives in New Hampshire's beautiful North Country with her husband, Ron and two Red Bone Coonhounds. |