If my memory serves me right it was the "ghost coon" in the rotten tree that he tracked the animal to.
watch Where the Red fern grows....then you will see
Billy's papa cannot afford to buy him coon dogs in "Where the Red Fern Grows" because the family is poor and struggling to make ends meet. Billy's papa is also hesitant to buy the dogs because he believes that Billy is not ready for the responsibility of owning and training hunting dogs.
Billy spent $50 on gifts for the family in "Where the Red Fern Grows."
That if they do their part and their the coon then he'll do the rest meaning cutting down the tress, little did he know that they treed the coon in the biggest tree in the whole forest.
He enters them into a coon hunting contest
In "Where the Red Fern Grows," to tree a coon means that the dogs have chased the raccoon up into a tree, where it is then trapped as it cannot escape. This is a common scenario in raccoon hunting where the dogs corner the raccoon at the base of a tree, preventing it from getting away.
he bought two hunting dogs to hunt the coons and he asked his dad and grandpa to help him to teach him how to coon hunt
It was a coon hound. That is why Billy took him in and remembered his own dogs.
The racoons just fight with the dogs. When they get treed by a hunting dog, the dogs eventually fight that coon to the death. The coon will fight back, but once the dog has his grips on a coon, the coon pretty much doesn't stand a chance. Unless he can get back to the river, the coon is a goner. The hound dogs will fight to the death. The coon will lose. So yes, that's when the racoons fight. But they don't fight with each other. Just with the dogs.
The wind
dogs
The resolution in "Where the Red Fern Grows" occurs when the protagonist, Billy, comes to terms with the loss of his beloved dogs and learns important lessons about life, love, and perseverance. He finds closure and a sense of peace, symbolized by the red fern growing over his dogs' graves.