Stephens’ Stock Mountain Cur Champion bloodlines from James Parnell Breeding Find a Stephens Stock Mountain Cur Breeder Rescue a Stephens Stock Mountain Cur Kemmer Stock Mountain CursThe Dog TraderPromote Your Page Too Mountain Cur is a breed of working dog that is bred specifically for treeing and trailing small game, like squirrel and raccoons. used for hunting and baying big game as well. Curs are a member of the Hound group, and the Mountain Cur is one of several varieties of cur. They can also be used as water dogs. breed is mainly bred in the deep south, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee, it has been registered with the United Kennel Club since 1998. Cur Breeder's Association was formed in 1957. Mountain Cur was originally brought to America from Europe by the settlers of the mountains in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, then later Arkansas and Oklahoma, to guard family and property as well as chase and tree game.

dogs enabled the settlers to provide meat and pelts for personal use or trade, making them very valuable in the unforgiving frontier environment. The Mountain Cur was bred and maintained for nearlyWith the advent of World War II, many of the families who had bred them left the rural areas and went to work in factories in the war effort. By the end of the 1940s the breed was becoming rare. Stephens and Woody Huntsman of Kentucky, Carl McConnell of Virginia, and Dewey Ledbetter of Tennessee are given credit for saving the breed from dying out and setting the Mountain Cur breed In 1956, these four founded the Original Mountain over the breed standard caused Hugh Stephen and Carl McConnell to leave the OMCBA to found the Stephen Stock Mountain Cur Association. that have never heard of the term Cur dog, itIt is a breed that was not originally planned, so it is next to impossible to reproduce the same type set, but today's cur

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His mom herds sheep. A squirrel dog is any dog that will hunt squirrels. The job of a squirrel dog is cruising the woods, scenting the squirrel and then announcing the find by barking at the base of the tree. Good squirrel dogs instinctively follow a fleeing squirrel merely by listening for scratches on the bark and the whoosh of the branches as the squirrel jumps from tree to tree. It is a lot of fun to follow a dog through the woods untill it sniffs out a trail or spots a bushy tail and gives chase and keeps it at bay until The primary food of squirrels is nuts and you will find them in forests that consist of oaks, beech, butternut, walnuts, hickories andThe instinct to go after sqiurrels occurs in Dachshunds, Terriers and a broad group of dogs known as curs and feists which have been bred to do the job for hundreds of generations. The difference between a cur and a feist is the size, with a feist being smaller. terrier ancestry to some degree.

Pure bred Dachshunds and Terriers are relatively new to the sport and training with experienced individuals andA talented mountain cur usually requires little training. A cur with talent does the job automatically, or will quickly learn it by There are many breeds of true curs - it seems as if a new breed appears every few years. The most popular cur breeds, though - mountain, American leopard, treeing Tennessee brindle and blackmouth - have their own breeder organizations that work to standardize and promoteIn the large, primarily rural sport of tracking and treeing dogs, squirrel dog hunting and trialing is far less developed and commercialized than coon dog and beagle trialing but is quickly growing into one of the most popular outdoor canine sports. Our early pioneers brought their early cur/terriers with them from rat infestedIt was soon found that small game became a principal source of providing food as it was plentiful and it was what could be most easily

harvested with the primitive weapons they had. More than 200 years would pass before a choke system was devised. Compared to modern shotguns, these muskets could be truly called "scatterguns". also used to herd escaped livestock back into pens, protect chickens and eggs from vermin and to hunt for small game. At night, the dogs slept outside to warn of Indian attacks. The settlers who went through the Cumberland Gap from Virginia to Tennessee and Kentucky brought these dogs with them in baskets on horse or mule. It was here that the squirrel dog would survive. It has been said that those Southern Mountains couldn't have been settledUp to about 50 years ago, when the U.S. and Canada were rural, every farm had an all-purpose dog that would go after many things. Squirrel Dogs were popular. All one had to do to locate one was ask around. Then America and Canada got modern and the sport lost favor. even in the Cumberland Gap declined being replaced by the melody -voiced

However it is from this cradle region that the sport is re-gaining Squirrel dog trials are designed to simulate squirrel hunting. Terriers, Feists and Curs are eligible. Dogs must be registered with the National Kennel Club and should have registry with the AKC, CKC, UKC or with the respective Cur/Feist Association. Point system: First place-406th and 7th-15 ; some of the rules: On plus points: Majority of cast must see squirrel (2 persons in either a 3-dog or a 2-dog cast)...When dogs are treed, cast may move at moderate pace close enough to see dogs working but must wait 3 minutes after dogs are declared treed, unless all dogs are treed or hunt time expires, before going in and searching the tree for game. After 3 minutes, tree is closed to other dogs, 10 minutes time is allotted to search tree for game. Squirrel must be seen in tree treed upon or trees that squirrel could have crossed overrto and not over 30 steps from where dogs are treed.

treed may receive plus points on squirrel if tree barking at squirrel seen running from tree to tree or on the ground even if squirrel goes into den,On minus points: When dog declared treed leaves the tree before cast arrives and ties dog. When dogs are declared treed, dog must bark 2 minutes until cast arrives within sight of the dogs. When dog trees on tree that obviously contains no squirrel, not within 30 steps of large tree and noDogs can be scratched from the trial for various infractions, including getting lost, chasing domestic animals or fighting. also can be disqualified for fighting. The governing bodies of the trials are the National Kennel Club (NKC) and the National Cur and Feist BreedersThe N.C.F.B.A. has members throughout the U.S. All NKC Squirrel Dog Trials are advertised inFULL CRY, PO Box 10, Boody, Illinois 62514 217-865-2332 I keep a complete list available for email. If you would like me to email you the list, email me