Vegas is a 1-year-old bluetick coonhound who came to the Humane Society of Missouri’s Macklind Avenue headquarters in January as a stray. He is a very active boy who will require daily exercise.

Coonhounds are notorious for getting lost before the night's over, so what if my “coonmule” tosses me off in the middle of a briar patch and lights out on its own? I’m thinkin’ it would be ...