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Okay. Now let's get you to your podcast. Find yourself in the pages of Full Cry as we dive into the archives of America's leading tree dog publication.

Join us as we look back at decades of stories, articles, and more, written by those bold enough to follow the

echoes of a hound.

One thing that I love about tree dogs is that they are truly an American-made product.

Lots of breeds that we classify today as tree dogs were made in

America. From the earliest days of colonization, these dogs cut their teeth on providing for

American families. Luckily for us, they were good at it. And so we have many of the popular

breeds that we see today.

Today we will recount the humble beginnings of a breed of Kerr Dog that some of you listening may have never heard of. This selection is from the August 1995 issue of Full Cry titled

History of the Treying Tennessee Brindle Dogs, written by Earl C. Phillips. Sit back and relax as we

reminisce on some of the greatest hound hunting stories ever told from the pages of full cry.

Back in the early days of American history, our first president, George Washington, and many more wealthy men kept a pack of foxhounds and rode to the chase as popular sport.

Their dogs were known as running dogs, but the cabin people of the day kept a tree dog of the Kerr stock.

There was no stock law and the dog guarded their children, garden, and corn patch. He killed snakes and varmets. He caught a hog by the

ear and when told to do so. People depended on wild meat for the table and those old cur dogs would tree anything that climbed a tree one mountain man in the eastern mountains wrote that a pioneer kinsman was walking up a path to an apple orchard at the top of the hill he carried a child in his arms and his old cur dog trotted behind him he was angered when the dog darted between his legs causing him to stumble.

But when he saw the dog shaking a big copperhead snake, his anger turned to appreciation.

In the coves of the rough mountains of North Carolina, Southern Virginia, Eastern Kentucky,

eastern Tennessee, and Northeastern Georgia,

these dogs remained for a long time.

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