A few weeks ago I wrote of an encounter with a feral boar hog that had been cornered in a Screven County swamp thicket by a pack of dogs. Mountain Cur dogs, to be exact. There were four and their ...

Submitted photoYoung people love their mountain curs and feists, great breeds of hunting dogs. Everything these days is so specialized.

Photo by Larry Case / Outdoors columnist Larry Case poses with Dotzie, his mountain cur dog who looks forward to the late fall and trips to the woods to hunt squirrels.

Levi Johnson’s dogs like to play a game with coyotes. The sport can be deadly or embarrassing. Johnson’s two mountain curs -- 5-year-old Dezi and Copper, 4 -- have been trained to locate ...

The Mountain Cur is one of America's original working dogs–brave, energetic, and with a strong hunting instinct. Originally bred by European settlers, it was an indispensable helper on farms and ...

As hunting dogs, modern curs and feists are used mainly for squirrels and raccoons, although you may see the larger curs trailing anything from bears to mountain lions.

Dotzie, a mountain cur, trees a fox squirrel near Zenith, West Virginia. Photo by Larry Case Squirrel hunting behind dogs has taken a big jump in popularity in the past few years. Unless you are ...

He’s a friendly, well-behaved little guy with an adorable nubby tail who should do well with gentle kids and another easy-going senior dog and possibly a dog-savvy cat.