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 Hello! I’m happy to share with you through the establishment of this web site, the love of my life and that of my family for more than 52 years – the beloved Plott dog. The Plott dog is a product of the American spirit. Spawned on the estates of Germany and carried to these shores by courageous pioneers from which the breed drew its unusual name, the Plott was refined as a hunter of bear and boar in the mountain crags and laurel hells of the southern Appalachians. The Plott is nothing if not a big game dog despite its success over the last 50 years in competition and pleasure hunting circles as a coon dog.
I have the Plott dog to thank for the ties that have bound my father, Homon Fielder, age 86 and me together as hunting partners for what is now nearly 60 years. I also have the Plott dog to thank for a career in the registry business that now approaches 30 years. And more importantly, it is the Plott dog that has provided for me an extended family of priceless friends that literally spans the globe.
“This hunt was made by me and Mark Cathey and others. There were nine hunters and we had fourteen dogs. My dogs were Troop, Trail, and Lead. I also had three dogs of John Everett’s, trying them out. Edd’s dogs were Back, Troop, and Bird. Mark's dogs were Dread, Jolly, Old Wheeler and two dogs belonging to Joe Morris. Their names were Rock and Dave. All the dogs were hounds except Marks dogs. They were Plott dogs.” - Samuel J. Hunnicutt in Twenty Years of Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains, published in April 1951.
To the Plott family for laying the foundation, to the commercial pioneers such as Dale Brandenburger that made me want to own a Plott dog that could beat a Walker dog in competition, and to my dad who brought our first Plott home and instilled within me the desire to breed, train and hunt the very best I could, I dedicate this site.
I trust that all that enter here via the miracle of Al Gore’s Internet will consider this site his or her own, an extension if you will of what has always been an incredible realm of fellowship centered upon this amazing breed. Please use the message board to communicate with fellow Plott hunters and fanciers. And, please let me know your thoughts about the site and how you feel it can be improved to the benefit of lovers of the Plott dog wherever they may be found.
Steve Fielder
“Ruined forever by a Plott dog in 1954.”
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Last Updated by: Steve Fielder
2/8/2006 5:12:11 PM
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