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Speaker 1: Welcome to this country Life. I'm your host, Brent Reeves.

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Speaker 1: From coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living.

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Speaker 1: I want you to stay a while as I share

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Speaker 1: my experiences and life lessons. This country life is presented

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Speaker 1: by Case Knives on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you

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Speaker 1: the best outdoor podcast.

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Speaker 2: The airwaves have to offer.

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Speaker 1: All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate.

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Speaker 1: I've got some stories to share dog traders. Dog traders

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Speaker 1: can get an undeserved bad reputation at times. Back in

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Speaker 1: the day, some of them are as bad as snake

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Speaker 1: oil salesmen, promising high, delivering low, and then it's goddadling

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Speaker 1: out of town with all your money. Modern times have

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Speaker 1: all but erased them, but there's still something to be found,

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Speaker 1: and if you do get caught up on the short

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Speaker 1: end of the retribution is a lot easier these days.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you some things that can help

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Speaker 1: you a little about what to look out for and

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Speaker 1: what a.

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Speaker 2: Dog trader is.

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Speaker 1: But first I'm going to tell you a story. It

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Speaker 1: was the day before the COVID catastrophe started in Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: I had driven three hours through the backwoods to the

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Speaker 1: foothills of the Washington Mouse to look at a coon.

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Speaker 1: How that I'd only seen a video of barking at

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Speaker 1: a coon in a cage on Facebook Marketplace at Chawa

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Speaker 1: while will do the same thing a dog, even a

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Speaker 1: dog made for barking at coons, actually barking at a

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Speaker 1: cage coon only proves one thing that the dog can bark.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Had he not done that, it could have been a

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Speaker 1: red flag. But because he did it certainly wasn't a

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Speaker 1: testament to any inheritabilities other than to be able to

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Speaker 1: produce sound. He did it with a lot of vigor

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Speaker 1: that didn't go unnoticed by me. I've told the story

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Speaker 1: of how his living conditions were not ideal and were

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Speaker 1: borderlined criminal. The dirt floor was inches deep and sloppy

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Speaker 1: mud due to the slope of the yard, and his

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Speaker 1: air conditioning frame that doubled as his house. Looking at

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Speaker 1: this six month old coonhound standing on top of the

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Speaker 2: Conditioning case, and as I walked up to the.

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Speaker 1: Porch, I didn't know if I was there to look

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Speaker 2: It struck a chord with me that the way he

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Speaker 1: Now, there are a lot of people who will roll

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Speaker 1: their eyes when it comes to a person remarking that

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Speaker 2: But I didn't get any.

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Speaker 1: Of those when I looked into that dog's eyes as

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Speaker 1: he stood there looking back at me, through my own

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Speaker 1: interpretation that could have easily been of my own manufacturer,

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Speaker 1: I felt connected to him immediately. He was half grown

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Speaker 2: And walker coon hound as I'd ever seen.

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Speaker 1: He appeared well fed and looked after the best of

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Speaker 2: A young lady opened the door after I knocked.

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Speaker 1: On it in a small mobile home that stood in

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Speaker 1: in that trailer park in western Arkansas. She was very young,

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Speaker 1: She was very polite and holding a little baby, and

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Speaker 1: looking past her through the doorway where she stood, I

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Speaker 1: I could see in that brief instant of looking past her,

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Speaker 1: I suddenly got the same feeling that she valued this

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Speaker 1: And my excitement bled through in our conversations was.

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Speaker 1: Why was she so eager to sell him? I kept

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Speaker 1: to know about this dog. Oh again, this young mother.

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Speaker 1: She needed the money, that dog needed a better life,

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Speaker 1: and I had the ability to crackt both of them.

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Speaker 1: Driving away, I was thinking, dang, lady is just a dog.

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Speaker 1: Thirty minutes away from home, my wife Alexis called me

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Speaker 1: and said, Brent, can you pick up Bailey from school?

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Speaker 1: Someone at work has reported they've been exposed to this

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Speaker 1: figure out what we're supposed to do next. Yes, just

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Speaker 1: tell the school. I'll be a little late. I'm just

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Speaker 1: now get into the little rock. Oh yeah, I bought

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Speaker 1: that dog. She didn't respond. It was just I'll let

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Speaker 1: you know what's going on when I know. I love you,

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Speaker 1: and I picked her up, and I explained to Bailey

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Speaker 1: surprise for her. Turns out that lop eer display of

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Speaker 1: abnormal changes in ours and everyone's lives would be the

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Speaker 1: of life. Spring mornings and evenings were spent outside in

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Speaker 1: was what seemed to be an exercise in futility. He

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Speaker 1: knocked over everything he came close to, including tables and Bailey.

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Speaker 1: Cups of coffee and glasses of tea were targets for

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Speaker 1: his big, old, sloppy tongue that could wreck your favorite

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Speaker 1: to lick your hand when you least expected it. His

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Speaker 1: personality is that of a mischievous child. No that means

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Speaker 1: regardless of the scoldings he receives, his memory of being

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Speaker 2: Bad dog whaling.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't imagine where we'd be four and a half

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Speaker 1: years later after that spring day when he and I

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Speaker 1: a dog would have on our family. We wanted normalcy

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Speaker 1: through all of that over the course of the next

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Speaker 1: year was made a lot easier by him being there.

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Speaker 1: The fact that I don't ever take for granted or

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Speaker 1: all of us. We wanted to go back to school,

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Speaker 1: with our friends. We wanted a lot of things that

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Speaker 1: we couldn't get. But in the form of a barrel chested,

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Speaker 2: And that's just how that happened.

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Speaker 1: Caveat Emptore. That ring bells with anyone, I'm sure it

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Speaker 1: does with the majority of you, but for those that

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Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's a Latin phrase that translates to buyer beware.

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Speaker 2: And it was a bezo.

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Speaker 1: Or stone that set this whole chain of events into

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Speaker 1: motion many moons ago in Mary Old England. What's a

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Speaker 1: bezoor stone? Well, I'm glad you asked, simply put it's

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Speaker 1: anything that can be swallowed that gets caught up in

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Speaker 1: much on eating guts myself, so I can only surmise

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Speaker 1: upon the calcified whatever it was and decided it had

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Speaker 1: some medicinal value. The Latin phrase caveat emptor became part

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Speaker 1: case of Chandler versus Lopus, in which a goldsmith sold

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Speaker 1: a buyer a beez or stone for one hundred pounds,

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Speaker 1: but the buyer later sued the seller after realizing the

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Speaker 1: all the money he lost, paying what would be twenty

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Speaker 1: that didn't work. The court ruled that the seller hadn't

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Speaker 1: made any warranties that that stone was healing, which established

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Speaker 1: sound in Latin phrases in our modern lexicon, but maybe

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Speaker 1: none as important as caveat emptore. Whether you're buying a

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Speaker 1: But let's say you ain't buying either one of those.

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Speaker 1: You're buying a dog, and not just any dog hunt dogs.

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Speaker 1: There's lots of options when it comes to hunting dogs.

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Speaker 1: In the bird hunting world, you got retrievers, pointers, flushers,

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Speaker 1: tree dogs, squirrel, coon, bear, bobcat, and line dogs. There's

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Speaker 1: bay and catchdogs for hogs, rabbit dogs, deer dogs, fox dogs,

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Speaker 1: cow dogs, and even turkey dogs. That's a right, I said,

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Speaker 1: turkey dogs friendly support of hobby. There's a dog that's

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Speaker 1: been bred to do the job of helping the hunter

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Speaker 1: get his game. I talk about that partnership a lot

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Speaker 1: because it's an important one. In my family's legacy and

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Speaker 1: relationship with nature. It's also symbiotic of the trust humans

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Speaker 1: and dogs having each other, a relationship that we've been

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Speaker 1: nurturing for a long long time. Scientists say around fifteen

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Speaker 1: thousand years, but who really knows. At one time the

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Speaker 1: leading scientists of the day thought the world was flat. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: the best places to look for hunting dogs are through

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Speaker 1: folks you know that are selldom one or having knowledge

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Speaker 1: of being one for sale. A lot of you may

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Speaker 1: have seen the Bear Grease road show film. Oh, Clay

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Speaker 1: Bow and I did Call Squirrels and Coons in Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: Portion of that film was dedicated to a coon hound

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Speaker 1: that Clay was hunting on trial that belonged to my

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Speaker 1: good friend Michael Roseman. That dog was two years old,

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Speaker 1: and the plan was this, Clay and I were going

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Speaker 1: to be making this film, and before we went into production,

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Speaker 1: Clays faithful old female plot Fern, she passed away and

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Speaker 1: he was coon dogless for the first time in a

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Speaker 2: It was his idea to add.

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Speaker 1: The element to the story of the film and started

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Speaker 1: looking for Fern's replacement. We started beating the bushes looking

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Speaker 1: for dogs, and my first call was to Michael. Ninety

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Speaker 1: percent of my coon hunting is done with Michael and

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Speaker 2: Are they like the old men that Michael told me about?

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Speaker 1: Brent Reeves, sign it off.

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