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Best Squirrel Dog Breeds for Hunting

The question comes up every time a hunter decides they want a squirrel dog: which are the best squirrel dog […]

Most young squirrel dogs do not fail because of bad breeding. They fail because somebody pushed them too hard, too

The dog strikes a track and the woods come alive. You can hear it pushing hard, moving fast, covering ground.

The track was there. You knew it. The dog knew it. But after a few circles and some frantic sniffing,

A young dog runs hard, puts its nose down for twenty yards, then lifts its head and blows straight to

Six months ago that dog was gone. You’d step out of the truck, give it thirty seconds, and it would

You turn your dog loose in the dark. It works the edge of a creek bottom, nose down, steady. No

There is a version of this conversation happening right now in every hunting community that keeps tree dogs. A handler

You watched that dog work all summer. Treed the wooden squirrel every time. Marked every toss. Locked up hard and

A young coonhound that blows past cold scent isn’t broken. But if you let it keep doing it, it will