Reds can climb onto low hanging limbs like those big live oak limbs, but a grey can climb almost as good as a 'coon. Red's problem is that they prefer open terrain where there are few such trees.

FWIW, an old time friend of mine used to run 'coons with coon dogs. He treed an otter one night. The otter had gone up on a big low hanging limb like those in the videos above. When my friend arrived on the scene the otter jumped out in the midst of the coon dogs, whipped them all, and escaped unharmed. My friend said he never saw anything fight dogs like that in his life.

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