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Re: Early History of the Feist
quote: Originally posted by fdm
My good buddy Bubba Jr, perhaps the leading expert on the Feist, postulates that the dog that was modified to become the Feist existed in North American for about 8000 years. This dog came over the Siberian land bridge with the people that became the Native Americans and migrated with them across North America and down to South America. This is significant as the Feist exist ONLY on the continents that were touched by these Asiatic people and the dogs that traveled with them.
This dog, modified as it migrated to the east coast of North America, was most impressive to the early English visitors, as the native Americans used them for squirrel, small game and vermin control. The English, in their time honored tradition of trying to improve everything they see, took these dogs back to England with them, where they were crossed to the extinct White Terrier, Manchester Terrier and Smooth Coated Fox Terrier.
THIS dog, now highly prized in England for vermin control, made it's way back to America, where WE then crossed the Beagle (for strength and scenting skill) and the Whippet (for sight and speed) into the breed and the modern Feist was born. It was this dog whose tenacity captured the heart of America.
The Feist is a wonderful dog for hunting, vermin control and as a companion in the out of doors. Tireless and in constant motion, they are at home in the bush! However, the lack of clear standards, even to this day, has created many different, REGIONAL images of this "feist dog". Short legs, long legs, deer body, cobby body, refined head, broad head, straight legs, bowed legs, all black, all brown.... all colors, ALL Feist to those that own and breed them. The lines bred in the bayous of Louisiana, the lines bred in the north Texas prairie and the lines bred in the West Virginia mountains, are all called Feist and are all registered as feist dogs, but can look like three DIFFERENT breeds!
Is your buddy Bubba Jr really Claude? Info in this post cut & pasted then edited without permission of the orignal author.
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