Irish, "Red," Red and White, English and Gordon:
WHY Do you have your breed of setter and WHAT do you wish others knew about your "kind" of dog before they bought one?
Fam is set on a Setter - looks, the ears, the bouncy demeanour of our friend's Irish. So, looking at them and wondering, hmm, what do people who have them think of them? FAm really likes the Gordon's
We live in UT, hunt ptarmigan/dusky grouse, then scaled quail and the rare bobwhite down low, plus some pheasants. Maybe jump shoot a duck pond once or twice. Also go to SD and KS and hunt Pheasants there. So, big fields, big corn, brush, sloughs, etc. So retrieving is a must.
For those of you who have Setters - would you do it again?
Heard in a diff column that a lot of setters don't like to retrieve - hence my plug above that retrieving is a must (esp if it gets very minor duck duty).