Dog breed feist picture3/28/2024 William Faulkner’s story “The Bear” includes a particularly brave fyce “not much bigger than a rat and possessing that sort of courage which had long since stopped being bravery and had become foolhardiness.” In a March 26, 1770, entry in his diaries, George Washington mentions a “foist looking yellow cur.” And in a poem by Abraham Lincoln, fice trail a bear “with instant cry.” Chrisman told me he believed the feist’s ancestors were the dogs of the American Indians. The members of the association tell me that nobody knows exactly where feists came from. He stops to accept a pat on the head, but seems puzzled as to how men could sit talking on the porch with a ridge of woods and its potential for squirrels so close. C4, a lemon-and-white feist with yellow eyes and double dewclaws, meanders among us. Their reason for being in the association is the feist, a little dog that, for some mysterious reason, once his switch is flipped, lives for the ripple of a squirrel’s tail. They are all familiar with the concept of the switch. Scattered around on his porch, the members of the East Tennessee Squirrel Hunters’ Association nod in agreement. “It’s like one day a switch goes off in the dog’s head and he knows he is a squirrel dog. Then one morning Bull Durham treed seven squirrels in a half hour. “I would take him out to the woods and he would just lay down and look at me and swap his tail in the leaves.” “I raised a dog, his name was Bull Durham, and it was eighteen months before he would tree,” says F. Squirrel dogs are not trained, but awakened.
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