Treedog - This little Feist dog is now 4.5 years old. There is some RiverRun blood a few generations back, but he is mostly out of a long line of dogs from here in Michigan.
There were a couple of fellas who came up here from the south after WWII to work in the auto plants. With them they brought some Feist dogs. Apparently these dogs had been with their families for generations before that time. These fellas crossed their dogs, and also out-crossed some. The only recognizable out-cross to me is a RiverRun dog.
This dog is as game as they get. Has great eyes, ears, & nose. Trees hard. Timbers very well. And most days will tree every squirrel in the woods.
This past spring I entered him in his first UKC squirrel hunt. He was the only Feist up against a bunch of Curs, with several squirrel champions entered. He placed third in the squirrel hunt, beating out the champion dogs. Then won Grand Bench Show Champion.
I have trained Beagles and Labs all my life and got this Feist to hunt with something 'different'. He has turned out to be the best hunting dog that I have ever had. I like him more than any dog that I have been around.