Welcome to this Country Life. I'm your host Brent Reaves. From Conehutton to

Trotline and in just general country living I want you to stay a while as I share

my stories and country skills that will help you beat the system. This Country

Life is proudly presented as part of Meet Eaters podcast network bringing

you the best outdoor podcast in the airways have dollar. Alright friends, pull

you up a chair or drop that tailgate. I think I got a thing or two to teach you.

Squirrel Dogs. This week it's all about the squirrel haters. You know what I'm

talking about? Squirrel Dogs. We're going to talk about what a squirrel dog is

and how one is trained and the value of having a good one and a good one. It's

just like money in the bank. You never know how important they are until they show

you and with that in mind I'm going to tell you a story.

We had a little mountain curtain named Pricy that was mostly white with a light

brown colored hair on her ears and around her eyes. She was a fast little ball of

energy and had two speeds stop and go. She was a young dog and a little over a

year old at the time of this story and I was young and two and I couldn't have

been more than ten or so. It was late on the fall afternoon when I talked my dad

into saddling up buck his big buckskin horse that was the spitten image of the

one Marshall Dylan Road on gunsmoak so I could go squirrel hunting behind the house

for our so before dog.

Never heard of gunsmoak. It's one of the longest running TV shows ever and it was

said in Dodged City, Kansas in the 1870s when Dodging Bullets, Tumbleweeds and

Stampede and Catables, what them folks called Tuesday. That show ran for 20

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