Not many breeds (as in none others that we can think of) are allowed to have an identification mark on rump in a show ring, but the Plott is. Because the dogs are so uniform, its breed standard stipulates: “The Plott may have an identification mark on the rump used to identify the dog when out hunting. Such a mark is not to be penalized when evaluating the dog.” Sometimes called the “ninja warriors of dogdom,” Plotts are held in near-mystical esteem as one of the world’s toughest dogs, so fearless,courageous and spirited is the breed.
Plotts are well-documented, and one of the few dogs in the world named for a family whose descendants have continued to maintain the breed. As of 2008, Madeleine Plott still lived on Plott Creek Road outside Waynesville, 50 miles southeast of Asheville, N.C. She is the French-born widow of Lawrence Plott whose family bred the dogs in the Carolinas for centuries.
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