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Barking up bushytails

By Keith Sutton
Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Monday, September 21, 2009

The woods are quiet. Jim Rhea cups an ear. "Listen," he says. In the distance, we hear a short bark, then another. "He's treed," Jim tells us. "Let's go." We find Jim's black-and-white treeing cur, Limbgripper Ranger, reared up on an oak, gazing into the branches overhead. The dog barks again. "Where is he, Ranger?" Jim asks. "Is there a squirrel up there?" Jim shakes a vine that curls up to the place the dog is looking, and a gray squirrel shoots up the side of the tree. "Get him, boys ...

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