Hi Elaine,

I re-visited the link in today's Digest that you listed, about the Tennessee
dogs, and noticed it referred to Central TN, which is more or less the area
I am in.  Do you know if a town was ever mentioned, more specific than just
middle TN?   (Don't know why I ever noticed that before, guess I was
scanning for other information at the time).  I still have a tiny hope in
the back of my head of finding some dogs that were close kin to my Buddy
(who has been gone a year this month).  Duncan (out of Sheryl's Lily x
Banjo) is turning out to be the smartest dog I have had.  Very eager to
please, knows by my face & tone he has been naughty, and he usually does not
repeat the offense.  He was completely housetrained within having him a
month, so he was about 3 months old.  Easiest housetraining I ever did.  I
checked today about signing up for training classes, but will have to wait
until March.  My mom and dad have Duncan's brother, the tri-color male,
King.  They love him more and more each day, are amazed at his intelligence.

Sherry and "little" Duncan
(little in age, not size, 50 lb. at 6 months!
But not fat, just big!  King is close behind at 45lb.)
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"We believe that this line of dogs from Tennessee is essentially the same
breed of dog:

http://izebug.syr.edu/~gsbisco/bull2b.htm "