[blam]

"Maybe they should be called Yangtze Yellers."

[decimon]

According to Answers.com, Old Yeller is a Blackmouth Cur, aka, Southern Cur, Yellow Blackmouth Cur, American Blackmouth Cur, Red Blackmouth Cur, Ladner Blackmouth Cur, Ladner Yellow Blackmouth Cur.

A cur, at any rate. ;-)