Meet the Black Mouth Cur: the breed behind Old Yeller! Discover their fascinating history, traits, and their impact on ...

Submitted photoYoung people love their mountain curs and feists, great breeds of hunting dogs. Everything these days is so specialized.

Levi Johnson’s dogs like to play a game with coyotes. The sport can be deadly or embarrassing. Johnson’s two mountain curs -- 5-year-old Dezi and Copper, 4 -- have been trained to locate ...

READINGTON — Tigger is a male mountain cur/terrier rescued from an overcrowded shelter where he would have been destroyed. The 1-year-old, 42-pound dog is now in the care of a volunteer with ...

If you're thinking about adding a furry friend to your family, you might have come across the term "Cur." Here's what it means and what you can expect.

Photo by Larry Case / Outdoors columnist Larry Case poses with Dotzie, his mountain cur dog who looks forward to the late fall and trips to the woods to hunt squirrels.

Today's Mountain Curs come in a variety of colors - brindle, black, dark brown, black and brindle, yellow - and all can have white points.

However, the United Kennel Club recognized the mountain cur back in 1957, and Tennessee breeder Robert Kemmer's stock was registered in 1991. Craig Chandler, of Dodson, La., used to hunt with hounds.

The mountain cur (like the feist) is a dog with origins in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Some say the first Spanish explorers to the new world brought "brindle-colored, bob-tailed" dogs with ...

Meet the Black Mouth Cur: the breed behind Old Yeller! Discover their fascinating history, traits, and their impact on American culture.