“The fact is — and I’ll argue this all day long — you are far more likely to get a great-performing bird dog out of a setter or a pointer than you are from some obscure breed that was originally used to hunt, I don’t know, Icelandic hoary hens, or bred to sniff out truffles, or fight Roman gladiators, or throttle European badgers, or serve as the King of Prussia’s personal canine bodyguards.”
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Quail Forever Journal Editor Chad Love — who wrote today’s blog on the merits of the traditional pointer and the English setter breeds — insists on pointing out that “If this organization of GSP and Lab cultists wasn’t actively trying to split the vote toward those breeds by breaking out English and Llewellin setters into separate breeds, which they aren’t,” (his words) then at least one of the two traditional American bird dog breeds would be leading (again, in his words...) “this ridiculously unrealistic popularity contest for enthusiastic but woefully uninformed canine cheerleaders.”
Read the rest of Quail Forever Journal Editor Chad Love’s screed on why he thinks the classic American pointing duo of English setters and pointers are still the best bird dogs going.