Dave Richards
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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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Rueben
I grew up in Kinspot Tenn. near the Virginia border look on the map, we wer close to North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky. I have hunted in all of these states and a bunch more. A lot of these mountain people depended on their dogs to put meat on the table, I was just a hunter who liked good dogs. I could go up in the mountains and just about everyone had tree dogs, most of these dogs were grade dogs, they did not care as long as these dogs got the job done. They hunted squirrels, groundhogs, possums, coons with the same dog. Some if these dogs are now what we know as mountain curs, treeing fiests, and some were hounds. They crossed all of these breeds together based on ability, there were few if any registered dogs. Performance was essential for these folks, papers meant nothing. Now, most folks are caught up on a set of papers first and performance has taken a back seat. Like some posters have commented, if we had to depend on our dogs to feed us, how many would be hunting what they have now? Dave
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