Of dog to run off and was very people friendly. Happened to him but likely someone picked him up as he was not the type He had sired one litter previously and had bred
One cold December day, Trigger went missing while hunting nearĬanton, South Dakota. Transition to big Midwestern fox squirrels.
Pair of dogs, my foundation stock, came with me and enjoyed the School in South Dakota to continue my education in Wildlife Science. Upon graduation from college, I entered graduate Trigger and Jody's early training took place in Virginiaįirst, then Maine. "Feist Men" are Jack Buckley, Glen Rifle, Jess Pennington, That contributed so much to the background of the pup. Suggestion of Robert, to pay homage to the enthusiasts in that state The female was named Kentucky Jody at the Male pup was the one I had held during Spring Break and I named him Went back to Cleveland, Virginia to pick up my male pup (Snap-E xīarbie) and my female pup (Yellow Mountain Copper x Gyspy-K-Lady). My job that next summer brought me home to Virginia. The intention of breeding down the road if they made decent squirrel I let Robert know that I was interested in a male and a female pup with The Mountain Feist I had seen in Southwest Virginia were what I wanted. After much thought andĬonsideration, I decided that the hunting style, pedigrees and looks of Let me tell you, driving those old mountain roads in the snow isĪt the conclusion of Spring Break, I headed back to college in The porch, complete with latticework to have her small litter, two male I even held a three-day-old puppy out of a dog he called Had a nice visit for a couple hours about various topics, includingīloodlines. Again, I wanted to make sure thisīreed of dog is what I truly wanted. Look at dogs and talk about Mountain Feist. It was on this trip that I was only coming to I followed Robert back to his place at the time, which was at
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In a patch of gravel by the road, adjacent to the railroad tracks, next I met Robert Varney (Clinch River Kennels-now lives in Tennessee) Where so much of my family history is rooted, but that's another Has special meaning because of Russell and the surrounding counties Time so drove 15 hours to my parents' house in Virginia and thenĭrove another 6.5 hours the next day to find myself along the banks of The beach, I was headed to the mountains! I was living in Maine at the I began my quest to find out as much as I can about squirrel dogs.ĭuring Spring Break from college, when my classmates were headed to Squirrel dog lines to find the breed that suits me, the Mountain Feist. Lot of research and contacted multiple breeders and hunters of various Want to get the family back into hunting squirrels with dogs. Growing up hearing stories about Ol' Ring and others, made me The dam taught the pups to kill chickens, so One litter, with a neighbor's female, and one of the pups was Just in good storybook fashion, Ol' Ring only sired
He could retrieve tools and bring cows around, among his He would hunt squirrel, rabbits and quail during the day, and coon at night. People rarely believe the stories handed down about Ol' "Ring" was half English Pointer and half Black and TanĬoonhound. The best dog anyone in my family had seen, Ol' Ring. My Grandpa Gray once owned what was reported to be Uncles (depending on the side of the family) kept coonhounds, bird dogsĪnd squirrel dogs. Kind or another for what seems like forever. My extended family has been "into" hunting dogs of one
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