They owe their colouring, their build, their long ears and their “cold noses” to their Bloodhound ancestors. However, it is thought that English Foxhounds taken over to America are also in their lineage although before that French hounds known as St. Hubert Hounds as well as Talbot Hounds which arrived in England in the eleventh century when the Normans invaded the land are also in a Coonhound’s ancestry too.