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The Black Mouth Cur, also known as the Southern Cur, Southern Black Mouth Cur and the Yellow Black Mouth Cur, is a medium to large sized breed of cur-type dog from the United States. Originating in the south of the country, the breed is a popular hunting companion used to hunt a large variety of game.
A cur was a dog breed used by cattle drovers in England. The breed is now extinct. In the United States, a short-haired dog used in hunting and herding is called "cur-tailed", or "cur" for short. In modern speech, the term cur is usually used to describe a mongrel dog, particularly if its temperament is unfriendly or aggressive.
George Washington referred to them in his diary in 1770 when describing a dog as "a small foist-looking yellow cur". [1] Abraham Lincoln wrote about the "fice" dog in his poem, "The Bear Hunt". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] William Faulkner mentions the "fice dog" in The Sound and the Fury , but uses the spelling "fyce" in the stories "Was" and "The Bear" from ...
This Black-Mouthed Cur's human brothers seemed just as enraptured by the show as he was, and the only way it could be any cuter was if they all watched from the sofa together!
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.
In 19th-century Texas, a black mouth cur insinuates himself into the lives of 15-year-old Travis and his family. Old Yeller protects the family from a bear, wild hogs, and finally, the wolf that ...
The Stephens Stock is a small, compact scent hound-like cur that stands between 16 and 23 inches (41 and 58 cm) in height and weighs between 35 and 55 pounds (16 and 25 kg). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The breed has a short coat that is black in color with some white markings on the extremities, it has a small head with a narrow muzzle which gives the ...
Bay dogs are typically cur dogs, such as the American Leopard Hound, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Black Mouth Cur, Blue Lacy and Catahoula Leopard Dog, and trailing scent hounds, such as the Treeing Walker Coonhound, [5] Foxhound, Plott Hound, and Berner Niederlaufhund. Catch dogs grip the boar with their jaws, typically seizing the base of the boar's ear.