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Despite considerable confusion, Mountain Feist or Treeing Feist dogs are their own unique breed. Where Rat Terriers are considered a specific breed within the feist type. Because the word "feist" refers to a general type of dog just as " hound " and "terrier" refer to a group of breeds, Rat Terriers are still often called "feists".
Both the Treeing and Mountain Feist breeds are used to hunt small game, particularly squirrel and rodents, as well as raccoons, opossums, rabbits and for flushing birds. [ 2 ] In the 20th century these dogs became increasingly rare and in the early 1980s a group of devotees banded together to prevent their extinction. [ 1 ]
The Denmark Feist has a short, rough coat that is usually red or yellow but occasionally red and white, it is a muscular breed standing between 15 and 18 inches (38 and 46 cm) and weighing between 25 and 35 pounds (11 and 16 kg), they have a broad muzzle, semi-erect ears and the tail is short, some have a naturally bobbed tail whilst those ...
Pipa is a five-year-old Bernese mountain dog. She’s a grand champion with two championships in agility, with titles in herding and pulling a cart. She’s jumped 18 feet and nine inches in dock ...
At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, this stylish, iconic little terrier is second only to the wire fox terrier, having won best-in-show eight times from 1911 to 2010, and twice at Crufts. 21 ...
The Treeing Tennessee Brindle's development began in the early 1960s with the efforts of Reverend Earl Phillips. Because of a column he was then writing in a hunting dog magazine, Phillips became aware of the existence of brindle curs—hunting and treeing dogs with brown coats, "tiger-striped" with black.
The dog most attributed to being one of the foundations for the Rat Terriers was a black-and-tan, mixed-breed, feist-type dog owned by the Roosevelts. In one of his letters to his children, President Roosevelt writes, "There is a very cunning little dog named Skip, belonging to John Goff's pack, who has completely adopted me.
Image credits: dogswithjobs There’s a popular saying that cats rule the Internet, and research has even found that the 2 million cat videos on YouTube have been watched more than 25 billion ...