What's an Arkie dog??
They are Blueticks that have a History of being great COON not hog dogs! they are primarily out of Texarkana and western Tennessee. There will probably be someone correct me here shortly on that but at least that is what I thought I knew about them

I did a quick search of them on Wikipedia and gotta say nice dogs! I see where they could probably be good at putting you on a hog but as far as shutting one down I would say they might be a little to cumbersome (sp?) to move the way I would expect a hog dog to. I maybe wrong but that is my judgement of the cover as I see it. Coon hunting sounds like fun though!