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When I was young, huntin' dogs was all the rage. A few times a year, men from the burbs and the inner city would stumble through the woods. They gathered up to light bon fires, guzzle shine, and throw money at the real hunters in their family to bag deer, wild pig, birds, and vermin.
You could hear hunting dogs baying in the distance. Men
Every now and then some of those dogs would come straying around my papa's shack. He never had to buy dogs. The hunters would dump the dogs that didn't hunt, couldn't track, and then there were the ones that were smart enough not to go back.
Pa never kept any dogs in kennels, chains, or caged. There was always a few of them just camped outside the shack.
He use to laugh because they were better than any security system and kept him from feeling lonely after mee-maw passed.

When the county coroner had finally come to claim his sad sorry soul, only one dog remained. Not long after I came for the funeral, I went to visit my dad and found the last mutt under my dad's travel trailer. Dad said he never came out from under there. It was a pain fetching his remains from under the trailer, after he passed away.

Description
When I was young, huntin' dogs was all the rage. A few times a year, men from the burbs and the inner city would stumble through the woods. They gathered up to light bon fires, guzzle shine, and throw money at the real hunters in their family to bag deer, wild pig, birds, and vermin.
You could hear hunting dogs baying in the distance. Men
Every now and then some of those dogs would come straying around my papa's shack. He never had to buy dogs. The hunters would dump the dogs that didn't hunt, couldn't track, and then there were the ones that were smart enough not to go back.
Pa never kept any dogs in kennels, chains, or caged. There was always a few of them just camped outside the shack.
He use to laugh because they were better than any security system and kept him from feeling lonely after mee-maw passed.

When the county coroner had finally come to claim his sad sorry soul, only one dog remained. Not long after I came for the funeral, I went to visit my dad and found the last mutt under my dad's travel trailer. Dad said he never came out from under there. It was a pain fetching his remains from under the trailer, after he passed away.