English Pointer

He's also the owner and operator of the Lake Mills Veterinary Clinic.

You can also send us an email to talk at WPR.org. We got an email here from somebody who says their 14-year-old English pointer digs and bites dirt.

I've heard this before.

A month ago, the dog developed what sounds like a three-pack-a-day cough.

Oh goodness, yes.

So the reunions are really the best part.

When people are reunited with their pet, we had somebody who used the program during the pandemic and the person didn't speak English, but the love that we have for our animals is so universal.

It gets me choked up to think about it, but that survivor kind of fell on her knees, hugging her animal and just gesturing, thank you, thank you, thank you for keeping that animal safe.

Oh, okay.

Between the French pointer, the Spanish pointer, the English pointer, all of those breeds kind of combine to make the GSV.

So it's one of the older breeds.

It's not very common here in North America.

Wow.

Uh, so they're, they're, they're pretty, pretty hard to come by.

Um, they uh what's what's interesting about them and why i really liked them a they're smaller than a gsb i didn't want a massive dog um they're short hair so yeah they still shed but it's it's not the long hair um and then uh on top of that they're known to a they're supposed to have a better off switch than a gsp which i've had mine for almost three years and haven't found it um Two, they're supposed to work closer, which, you know, the first one or two years of woodcock hunting, I come to find, you know, a buddy's English pointers, 300, 400 yards away.

And you're trying to get through stuff that you can't throw your hat through more than three feet.

I was in middle school when he got his last two puppies.

Sal was a lemon and white English pointer representative of the breed, hard-charging with a good nose and an indifference to affection.

Lil was a small Llewellyn setter.

She didn't have Sal's raw drive, but her nose was good enough.

So I'm sure there's an audience of listeners out there also thinking, my big running pointing dogs, this is how they equalize it.

You know, English pointers, English centers, you know, because, you know, you talk about it from a perspective of philosophical, just put one foot in front of the other.

But there's also those big running pointing dog, you know, That are steady to wing, really steady, well-trained dogs.

Those dogs, you release them and they just cover ground.

We didn't have him for very long, but I loved him.

And so when I, when I was 13, I just decided I wanted an English pointer.

And my parents were recently divorced.

Um, they felt guilty, so they were giving us-

So I, I had reached out to the, you know, APC, you know, um, you know, show secretary and actually said, "Hey, I'm coming as a spectator." And it was in Lima, Ohio.

Uh-huh.

So I was telling my partner, I'm telling my friends, "I'm going to Lima, Ohio to, [laughs] to the American Pointer Club Specialty." They're like, "You're going where? To what?" [laughs] It's like people just couldn't, you know, get their heads around that.

But that's what I did.

You get you a good set of, I'm not talking trash on German shorthairs or German wirehairs because I love them.

But man, I love me a good English setter or an English pointer.

And I love watching a good English pointer that has, I mean, just that passion and the raw power that they have just zeroing in with that nose and finding a cubby of quail and being just 90 miles an hour, pure muscle, adrenaline just running through there.

You got the badge of honor with the bloody tail of them working and working and working to get you on the bird.

And then just that moment of when it all lines up and then they set up.

Yep.

Pointer, and that's, that is Archie.

Yeah.

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