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Bear Pen Song of the South
Entered by: Steve Fielder
Updated by: Steve Fielder
12/24/2007 10:53:26 PM
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Weight
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50 Pounds
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Description
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Solid brown brindle - no white
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Dob
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8/24/1991
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Owner Sire
Everett Weems of Salem, Illinois
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Owner Dam
Everett Weems of Salem, Illinois
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Killed in Action by a Black Bear
Inducted into the NPHA Hall of Fame as the 2007 NPHA Deceased Big Game Female
Imagine casting a hound into a pack that you think has jumped a bear on a sunny morning in the Capitans of New Mexico. Imagine the disappointment when she hits the road like she’s tied to a bungee cord and refuses to run the “jumped” track. Imagine then the extreme pride when that hound hits a ridge and strikes a bear track that she will trail alone while the pack runs off game. Imagine on another day, casting that hound to a hard-running hound on a blustery December day in southwest Virginia, thinking the hound is running a bear, only to have her check back as quickly as she left you. Imagine then seeing that hound a few mornings later, trail a cold bear track through a herd of Whitetail deer and eventually jump that track, taking it to a finish in a rock cliff where in virtual “mouth to mouth ” combat the hound will die in battle. If you can imagine all that to be true, you are not imagining. You are hunting with a Plott dog called Bear Pen Song of the South.
 I called her Singer because of her raucous voice on trail. She literally sang to the track she ran, be it coon or bear and it had to be one or the other for she would run nothing else. She was not born in the Bear Pen but in the kennel of Everett Weems of Salem, Illinois. I bought her when she was eight months of age and had not been out of the pen. I never regretted it.
Singer had a tremendous nose and exhibited her cold-trailing ability at a very young age here in Michigan on coon. I treed lots of coons with her but she was really in her element on bear. My brother Randy put her on her first bear track only to have her run it for six hours. (Photo - Tom David with Singer and a nice bear killed in Arizona by Glenn Rhodes on May 22, 1998.)
I let professional guide Tom David of Albuquerque, New Mexico hunt her two Falls and one Spring in northeastern Arizona where she was in on nearly 50 bear kills. After bringing her home, she and I hunted her last season together in West Virginia and Virginia. Heath Hyatt and I killed a bear with her in Randolph County, West Virginia while hunting with Mike Talbot. We then went down to southwest Virginia and hunted a couple more days before I had to return to Michigan. I had her loaded in the truck on a Saturday heading home when Randy asked to keep her one more week to finish out the Virginia season. She would be killed the following Monday or Tuesday by a bear that she cold-trailed, jumped, and ran to bay in a cave. All the dogs that were released that day were recovered on that chase but Singer. The bear crushed her skull like a pop can when she fought it head to head and, crowded by the other hounds, couldn't move back out of the way of the charging bear.
Here is a letter from Tom David to NPHA Secretary Marion Todd, nominating Singer for the NPHA Big Game Female of the Year:
Summit Guiding and Outfitting
Tom David - Owner
Marion Todd
Secretary/Treasurer
National Plott Hound Assoc.
February 12, 1998
Dear Marion:
I would like to nominate Bear Pen Song of the South (Singer) for Big Game Female of the Year for 1997. I have never seen a dog, male or female, that has as much desire as she does. I have owned and hunted Plotts for 18 years and currently make about 2/3 of my living by guiding bear and lion hunters. Cabela's Outdoor Adventures books most of my hunts. I hunt only registered Plotts.
I hunted Singer this fall bear season. She was on 17 treed bear. She is fast, gutsy, wide open on track anytime she can smell it, outbarks any of my dogs by 3:1 at the tree. Not just for a while but for hours and hours. She was wounded on three different bears this fall. Fortunately, she was not hurt seriously by any of them.
 I'm including a picture of Singer in an oak tree that she climbed in order to get closer to a treed bear. (See photo above.) By looking at the tree I could tell that she had been up and down it many times. I saw her go up and down the tree three times while I tied other dogs and before I could get her tied. And by the way, she's extremely agile.
I've also included Singer's pedigree and a video tape. Feel free to call me if you need anymore information. Thanks for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Tom David
I’ll always admire Singer as a bear dog. She’s one more shoo-in for my personal Hall of Fame. Tom David nominated her for the NPHA Big Game Female of the Year honor but she was defeated on the ballot. I know. Don’t worry about it. I got used to it.
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| | GRCH Weems' Plott Butch (NPHA HOF) |
| | NITECH Weems' Plott Punie (NPHA HOF) |
| | Weems' Plott Jill (NPHA HOF) |
| Sire | Weems' Plott Stormy |
| | Haug's Swampland Kelly |
| | Weems' Plott Bell |
| | Thomason's Plott Dixie
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Bear Pen Song of the South
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| | Weems' Plott Spike |
| | Weems' Plott Sarge |
| | Weems' Plott Moon |
| Dam | NITECH Weems' Plott Hanah |
| | NITECH Weems' Plott Punie (NPHA HOF) |
| | Weems' Plott Murt |
| | Weems' Plott Ginger |
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