![]() And that dog, regardless of where it came from, was a prized “Mountain Feist” and contributed to the Feists. ![]() Their Ancestorsįor most of their genealogy, it’s was ANYBODY’s little dog, heck: “Billy Crawford’s treein’ Feist” – – or “That Pittcairn Feist from over that hill” or any of a bunch of old hillbillies (by name and dog name) with great treeing feists – – that could run two coons up two trees ‘n’ keep BOTH of ’em there all night. But those ‘Feists’ could be pretty much any color and they’d breed that with any dog about the same size that had any similar, desirable traits for coon hunting. What They Can DoĪnd they bred them to be scrappy, and small (ish) and LOVE pursuit of ‘all things edible’ (with fur) and to even climb trees.Īnd when a hillbilly (And I do NOT MEAN THAT IN A CRITICAL OR NEGATIVE WAY!) – – when a hillbilly had one that could tree a coon up 8 feet, or even 10 feet (tree-climbers) they’d latch onto that dog and breed it like a champion Labrador. They look like a cross between a Beagle and a Rat / Jack Russell Terrier. It’s a little bit of both, it’s been my experience.įor more than a hundred years across the entirety of the Appalachian mountains and TVA areas* there have been Depression Era ‘hillbillies’ (And I do NOT MEAN THAT IN A CRITICAL OR NEGATIVE WAY!) and survivors and they’ve been farmers but mainly hunters, trappers and they’re tough as nails.Īnd they had these little mix breed terriers they started calling “Feists” or “Mountain Feists”.
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