I'm trying to pick out what breed of bird dog I should get. I should be buying a house in the next year and I am already trying to pick out what breed of bird dog I want.
My wife doesn't want anything too big, so I started thinking about a brittany. I don't have any experience with the breed, but everything I've heard has been very positive. For some reason, they don't seem very popular, so I'm not so sure.
They are the smallest pointer that I know of, only 30-40 pounds according to the AKC. My wife likes that.
Most of my experience has been with a german shorthair that an old roommate of mine had. That dog couldn't hunt. He trained it to point sparrows in the backyard and when we went hunting all it did was chase sparrows. Probably not the dog's fault.
Any suggestions on breeds? I live in the Arizona desert, so I will mainly be hunting quail, doves, and maybe some retrieving waterfowl, so it would be nice if it would just retrieve too.
I don't mind the dog being energetic, whatever dog I get will become my jogging partner.
-Fuzzy
My wife doesn't want anything too big, so I started thinking about a brittany. I don't have any experience with the breed, but everything I've heard has been very positive. For some reason, they don't seem very popular, so I'm not so sure.
They are the smallest pointer that I know of, only 30-40 pounds according to the AKC. My wife likes that.
Most of my experience has been with a german shorthair that an old roommate of mine had. That dog couldn't hunt. He trained it to point sparrows in the backyard and when we went hunting all it did was chase sparrows. Probably not the dog's fault.
Any suggestions on breeds? I live in the Arizona desert, so I will mainly be hunting quail, doves, and maybe some retrieving waterfowl, so it would be nice if it would just retrieve too.
I don't mind the dog being energetic, whatever dog I get will become my jogging partner.
-Fuzzy