Re: Any feist hunters?
[Re: warrior]
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09/20/21 11:17 AM
09/20/21 11:17 AM
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coondagger2
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"Brat"
Joined: Dec 2012
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NC - Here there and everywhere
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Feist because they'll climb the tree and go get the squirrel for you! I've got a video of my buddy's feist climbing a tree but I can't seem to upload it.
He's a dang good dog, insane amount of drive to hunt
Gotta live up to the nickname...
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Re: Any feist hunters?
[Re: warrior]
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09/20/21 12:10 PM
09/20/21 12:10 PM
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Posts: 18,694 Green County Wisconsin
GREENCOUNTYPETE
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Green County Wisconsin
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I think Trapp Setter is hunting Feistes
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America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Any feist hunters?
[Re: warrior]
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09/20/21 12:19 PM
09/20/21 12:19 PM
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Posts: 8,372 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Firth, Nebraska
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Ernie the Wonder Dog is my little rescue feist. Trapline buddy, hunter extraordinaire. He is fierce on squirrels and coons. Loves to tree and will climb too if you let his curled claws grow. Very good at finding coyote pee spots and droppings for predator sets too. He has a crazy hunting drive, more than any dog ive ever been around, seriously. Can't tell difference between a cat or a coon, treats them the same. Has a much different bark and whine when he sees or locates scent from prey but he is more visual of a hunter. I used to take him running with me a lot too. Runs incredibly fast and went with me on 6 to 7 mile runs no problem. Very good endurance. For his little size he isn't afraid of anything. Oh, and ours is completely house broken, potty trained, very good family dog, have never had an issue in our home with him, ever. Very good manners. He is vocal and you know when someone is at the door or outside! We adopted him through local rescue group. Came from somewhere in Oklahoma. He was pretty skittish when we got him, had been beat around pretty good by previous owner and took a good year or so to trust us but now he is so loyal and so much fun. Lots of walks, runs, baths, and he is big part of the family now. Jim
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Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: Any feist hunters?
[Re: warrior]
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09/20/21 01:57 PM
09/20/21 01:57 PM
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Posts: 15,802 Champaign County, Ohio.
KeithC
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I am a member of two pretty good feist groups on Facebook. https://m.facebook.com/groups/349330195251592/?ref=group_browsehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/1638780123087391/I've had two feist type dogs, Dingle and Dangle. Dingle was in the top two best dogs I've ever owned, out of a whole lot of dogs. She would climb trees after squirrels. She frequently climbed 14 feet high in one big oak tree, that had a lot of fox squirrels. She could climb ladders and followed me up one 24 feet into a loft once. The most she ever weighed was 24 pounds. She killed a 26 pound raccoon once. She caught lots of rats, mice, chipmunks, voles and a few squirrels. She could jump and pull herself up onto my 6' privacy fence and then perch there. She hunted for around 8 years with a friend of mines red tailed hawk, Sally. Keith
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Re: Any feist hunters?
[Re: warrior]
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09/20/21 02:30 PM
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jabNE
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KeithC, mine will not stay in a chain link fence either. Easy-peasy climb if he wants out. Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: Any feist hunters?
[Re: jabNE]
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09/20/21 02:49 PM
09/20/21 02:49 PM
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KeithC
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KeithC, mine will not stay in a chain link fence either. Easy-peasy climb if he wants out. Jim Dingle would stay in my 6' wood privacy fence. She would just sit on top of it. She could easily get out, but knew she wasn't supposed to. She listened very well. She would kill anything I her told her to. She would catch and hold what I told her to. She knew left, right, over, up, in, kill, catch, let it go. I could call her off of prey she was inches from. She was close to fearless. She was dog dominant, but not dog aggressive. If I told Dingle to jump over something, she would blindly do it. She had complete faith in me. Keith
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Re: Any feist hunters?
[Re: warrior]
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09/20/21 03:27 PM
09/20/21 03:27 PM
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Posts: 4,208 Eau Claire Wi
Trap Setter
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trapper
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Eau Claire Wi
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Sorry not much help to you. I have 2 fiest dogs. The younger one seems the better hunter at 2.5 months she trees the yard squirrels and has a good voice, she is out of Kentucky and has Kid and Cadillac Jack in her line. The older male is just 1 year old and treed his first squirrel during season not sure on his line as the breeder is here in Wisconsin and has dogs from a few states. He has been treeing squirrels since he was about 6 months but is still silent. So I can't let him hunt out of sight. I won't really know what he has till next year but hopefully I can get him to find his voice on tree. He does have the stamina and drive to turn out but needs to make some noise. This is his first from Saturday
Life sure is tough when you don't learn from the mistakes of others.
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