Meat Dogs. (Depression Era style)

I don't think there are many of those types of dogs around in today's world. When I was a kid and worked on my Dad's farm we had stock dogs that would work all day, tree squirrels in the daytime and tree coons at night. If we raised a puppy and he didn't fit the bill, he didn't live with us long. Those dogs got up and went to work or went hunting every day. The dogs of today have a disadvantage that those old dogs didn't have: exposure. Most people, like me, have a career and hunt when we can. Hunting two or three times a week for an average of five hours per hunt, I'm lucky to bay as many hogs as I do. I sure don't have time to try to steer them on any other type of game.

Back then, nearly every country family that I knew had a couple of the kind of dogs that you speak of. Today, I bet there aint a handful of em that live in this county.