Rescued a starving young feist, female 2 days ago .. she seems to be doing well but still needs to gain a little bit more weight. Email me with a description if you are missing one. She's a beauty!

What, may I ask, is a 'feist'? :scratch:

Focus .. you might want her! She's a small dog that trees squirrels .. but shes also getting crate trained & learning the commands "sit" & "shake" .."sit" shes about 80 % on :) Shes young and past the chewing stage. Weights under 20 lb. Sweet , gentle & quiet. Walks extremely well on the leash & even likes to snuggle on my lap. :wub:

Fiest are various colors and basically small hunting dogs..and boy does she want to chase squirrels :thumb:

Feist are also called Mountain Feist, Treeing Feist & American Feist :usflag:

They are also known as Rat Terriers.

Actually a mix of breeds formed this breed ..terrier is in there though
Breed Standard

heres a website with some photos : photos

From wiki :
History
The feist is not a new type of dog. Written accounts of the dogs go back centuries, with several spelling variations seen. Abraham Lincoln wrote about them in a poem, "The Bear Hunt," spelling "feist" as "fice." Reference to them is included in the diary of George Washington in 1770 in which he wrote, "A small foist looking yellow cur," and a feist is also featured in William Faulkner's "Go Down Moses" in the line "a brave fyce dog is killed by a bear." In her 1938 novel The Yearling, author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings uses the spelling of "feice" to refer to this dog. Claude Shumate, who wrote about the feist for "Full Cry" magazine, believed that the feist was descended from Native American dogs, mixed with small terriers from Britain, and was kept as early as the 1600s. (Full Cry, December, 1987).

She looks like an Arkansas Curbsitter to me. :lol: As far as I'm concerned, they are the best anyway.

Found a home for her :D