what hunting dog breed do you perfer and why ?

[featherfooted]

For birds my dad liked to use english setters and pointers together. He said that the setters could go in the brairs that the pointers couldn't. For rodents my best mouser is our english setter Lady. She also takes care of the possom and squirrels. For a dog of 13, She still pretty swift and in good shape. My carin terrier, Herbie, is a good mouser too.

Lady

Herbie

 

[Turkenlover]

For birds, it's gotta be the CHESAPEAKE!!! Our chessies also are great mousers!

Of course, they are also sweethearts!

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

lol i live around the area where the chessie was invented

 

[copperhound]

beagles are the bomb for me but know went bird hunting and think i might like a german shorthair

 

[Fairybee]

e have english springer spaniels for birds

 

[QuailHollow]

We use English Pointers for upland hunting:

ETA: you can see the Chukar we use to train our dogs in some of these pictures.

 

[ChickenToes]

We like to take our Bloodhound out hunting with us every so often. She's good at flushing grouse, but her biggest talent is tracking deer.

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

how does he not spook the deer ?

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

bump

 

[Tala]

I've not hunted much, but I'm partial to Mountain Curr types. My grandpa used to raise them (and hunt them) and they are just very good dogs. They are smart dogs, and they seem to "know" a friend from an enemy so good guard dogs around the house. We had them when I was little, they were good raised around us kids. The girls were um, stubbern sometimes, but my grandpa was a good pack leader.
They won't back down from wild hogs and such, they will fight fiercely when necessary.


I have a Lab mix, and he's smart enough to know not to bring me the chickens

but he's just sooooooooooo hyper that I don't think he would make my list of top favorite breeds. Nobody in my family has ever hunted birds, so I don't even know how anyway. Hawk retreives balls and frizbees instead