The Only Kind in the World

August 15, 2024

Yesterday, we drove the truck down a hilly, winding narrow road to the Coon Dog Cemetery.

It is officially the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard. Everyone just calls it the Coon Dog Cemetery.

Only coon dogs are allowed to be buried in this cemetery.

Here’s a link to the Coon Dog Cemetery site, if you’re interested in how the graveyard was started: https://www.coondogcemetery.com/index.html

The gave markers are made up of various materials, on the high end, you have granite markers and on the low end, simple wood markers.

There are over 300 coon dogs buried in the graveyard. From the web site, the coon dogs have to have meet three conditions:

The owner must claim their pet is an authentic coon dog.

A witness must declare the deceased is a coon dog.

A member of the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, Inc. must be allowed to view the coonhound and declare it as such.

The graveyard is officially recognized as an historic cemetery by the State of Alabama.

We enjoyed looking at the gravestones and feeling how much love people had for their coon dogs.

This was my favorite. I could hear the Dun Dun Duuun music when I read the name.

It definitely worth visiting, if you like dogs. Anyone who has lost a beloved dog can sympathize with the hunters who buried their coon dogs here.

I would recommend mosquito spray. We weren’t wearing any and got chased out by the mosquitos.