The first dogs in my memory were the farm dogs we used for herding our dairy cows. This was back in the 1950s, when the Thumb had countless small farms, usually entailing milk cows. A common dog in ...

Hunting hare, which we always called "jack rabbits" or "snow shoes," on the first look seems to be a hunt where a dog, especially a beagle or "rabbit-dog", is a necessity. That really isn't the case.