Which breed of hunting dog can also be used as a water dog, the East Siberian Laika or the Mountain Cur?
Mountain Cur
Mountain Cur
The Mountain Cur is a type of working dog that is bred specifically for treeing and trailing small game, like squirrel and raccoons.
 They are also used for hunting and baying big game like bear and wild boar as well as being an all-purpose farm dog.
 Curs are a member of the Hound group, and the Mountain Cur is one of several varieties of cur.
 It can also be used as a water dog.
 Mainly bred in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee, it has been registered with the United Kennel Club since 1998.
 The Mountain Cur Breeder's Association was formed in 1957.
East Siberian Laika
The East Siberian Laika (Vostotchno-Sibirskaia Laika) is a Russian breed of dog of spitz type, a hunting dog originating in parts of Siberia east of the Yenisei River.
German Spaniel
The German Spaniel, also known as the Deutscher Wachtelhund (German quail dog), is a breed of dog that was developed in Germany around 1890, and is used as a hunting dog.
 Descended from the old German breed, the Stoeberer (lit.
 "rummager"), which became popular with commoners following the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, who required a versatile hunting dog.
 Stoeberer is now a type of hunting dog in Germany with the Wachtelhund being its sole member.
 The breed is not very well known outside of Germany, but was recognised by the United Kennel Club in 1996. East Siberian Oblast
The East Siberian Oblast was an early oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, which existed from December 5, 1936 to September 26, 1937.
 It was created when the East Siberian Krai was divided into the East Siberian Oblast and the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936 and ceased to exist after being split into the Irkutsk Oblast and the Chita Oblast in 1937. Stephens Cur
The Stephens Cur (a.k.a. Stephens' Stock Cur), is a scent hound that belongs to the Cur dog breed.
 They were originally bred by the Stephens family in southeastern Kentucky.
 The dogs known as "Little black dog" were bred by generations of that family for over a century.
 In 1970, they were recognized as separate and distinct breed of Cur.
 The dog is mostly black with white markings, but more than a third white is not permissible.
 It is good for hunting raccoon and squirrel, but can also be used to bay wild boar.
 They are registered with the United Kennel Club East Siberian Railway
The East Siberian Railway ("Восточно-Сибирская железная дорога" ) is a railway in Russia (a branch of the Russian Railways and a part of the Trans-Siberian Railway), which runs across Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast, Buryatia, and Yakutia.
 The railway administration is located in Irkutsk.
 The East Siberian Railway borders with the Krasnoyarsk Railway (railway station of Yurty), Trans-Baikal Railway (railway station of Petrovsky Zavod), and Baikal Amur Mainline (railway station of Lena-Vostochnaya).
 To the south, the East Siberian Railway runs close to the Russo-Mongolian border (railway station of Naushki).
 As of 2008, the total working length of the East Siberian Railway was 3848.1 km ; number of employees – 46,233 (61,418 in 2005); net weight hauled – 76 million tonnes (75.934 million in 2005); long-distance passenger traffic – 3.6 million people (4.838 million in 2005); suburban traffic – 29 million people (26.225 million in 2005).
 Annual cargo turnover is 278 million tonnes. Treeing Cur
The Treeing Cur is a breed of dog that originated in the mid-west and was first recognized by United Kennel Club on November 1, 1998, due to the efforts of Alex and Ray Kovac.
 "Most Cur breeders were not well off and so they required a dog that could serve multiple purposes: hunter, guardian, and stock dog.
 The result was the Treeing Cur, "which is the most varied in size and colors of the Cur breeds", according to United Kennel Club.They are primarily used to tree squirrels, raccoons, opossums, wild boars, bears, mountain lions and bobcats as well as to hunt big game. West Siberian Laika
The West Siberian Laika or "WSL", is a breed of hunting dog and a breed of spitz type.
 Russian publications indicate that the term West Siberian Laika loosely applied to hunting dogs originating with the Mansi and Khanty people in Ural and West Siberia, but there were no standards or registrations of WSL as such until 1930.
 Then WWll disrupted it for a while, but "systematic breeding with registrations" resumed after the war ended, in 1946.
 This was the time the breed began taking modern shape.
 Before that hunters only knew of Mansi Laika and Khanty Laika.
 In early 1960 many hunters in Ural still preferred the term Mansi Laika, when speaking of West Siberian Laika.
 In Russian language, the term Laika originated from the word "layat" that means to bark.
 The word Laika simply means "barker".
 Any hunting Laika is a bark pointer (pointing at animal of interest by barking and staying with the animal ).
 It is a versatile dog depending on use and environment, but in certain parts of the country they have become more specialized. Wetterhoun
The Wetterhoun (FCI No.221, translated into English as the Frisian Water Dog) is a breed of dog traditionally used as a hunting dog for hunting small mammals and waterfowl in the province of Fryslan in the Netherlands.
 The name of the dog comes from the West Frisian "Wetterhûn" meaning "water dog."
 Plural of Wetterhoun is Wetterhounen in Dutch.
 The breed may also be called the "Otterhoun" (not to be confused with the Otterhound) or "Dutch Spaniel", although it is not a Spaniel-type dog. New Siberian Islands
The New Siberian Islands (Russian: Новосиби́рские острова , "Novosibirskiye Ostrova" ; Yakut: Саҥа Сибиир арыылара, "Sanga Sibiir aryylara" ) are an archipelago in the Extreme North of Russia, to the North of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.