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Possum days gone by

By Keith Sutton
Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Monday, January 12, 2009

Does anyone know if you can buy a good possum dog nowadays? When I was a kid I had a dandy, an old black-and-white setter named Rusty. He belonged to my uncle, actually, but when Rusty failed to show an interest in pointing quail, and began exhibiting a knack for tracking and treeing possums, my uncle loaned him to me permanently. To a twelve-year-old boy, a dog that'll tree possums is just about the finest animal one can have. At least that's the way I saw it. I'd turn Rusty out every afterno ...

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