Hey Luke,
I have never hunted squirrels with a dog - but sure do hope I get to before I die. Squirrel hunting has always been my favorite kind.
I have read a lot about it and talked to a few folks who had squirrel dogs - but somehow just never got a chance to do it.
The closest I ever came - was one time when I was working, cutting pulpwood in Northern Michigan, and one of the guys we worked with had a friend who came to visit and he had a little black and white feist dog of some sort and he took us out coon hunting one night - just outside town along the Ausable river. The dog was a silent trailer but would bark treed, and I can still hear that little guy running through the fallen oak leaves and yapping at the tree. There was always a coon in that tree - he never lied - and we got 9 coons that night. What a great little dog that was. The guy said he was just as good on squirrels in the daytime.