The Plott Hound - Ninja Warrior Of Dogdom
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/heavy_petting/2008/02/great_plott.html
I’m from East Tennessee In my younger days, I had a good string of Plotts..We hunted East Tennessee and Ontario Canada quite a bit...
I’ve been involved in a few bear races...:o))
When I was young, I read a book about a great lion hunter in Africa.
The author was amazed at the hunter’s “Lion Dogs”.
None of them looked the same and they were all different sizes.
The author was confused. He thought that there must be a special breed of dogs to track and tangle with lions.
The hunter said no, he just got them from the dog pound.
The author was aghast. The hunter was using any old kind of dog? Wouldn’t some of the dogs be killed?
The hunter said yes, some of the dogs would be killed, but look at the life they had now. They were well fed and snoozing on the porch. They weren’t waiting in some miserable cage for someone to come and give them the final shot.
The hunter said that if he were a dog, he would want to die fighting lions instead of waiting in the dark for a needle.
Dear God, please let me go down fighting lions. Amen.