english coonhound

I recently adopted a 2 year old English Coonhound, who behaves in ways I have never seen other dogs behave. She will have excessive bursts of energy for about 15 minutes before laying on a couch silently for hours at a time. She will even stay there when she sees me and will rarely follow me...

Does anyone have experience training sensitive/fearful/stubborn coonhounds? I adopted a 4 year old English Coonhound over the summer and I have 2 other dogs He is a very loving dog, but he is very sensitive, quite skittish, and gets his feeling hurt easily. If you say "bad dog" he gets sad and...