Thread: The Braque d’Auvergne

The ES isn't popular in the UK that's for sure. Nothing to do with the breed, but with changing shooting method's and money. Money kills anything. I own Laverack's book and in there he somewhere claims that he enjoys it a lot more shooting game over his dogs with a friend than driven. Where in the UK would you find an owner of a larger estate that abandons driven game and prefers to shoot game over dogs with one or two friends?? All estates are stuffed up with 1000's even 10000's of birds, keepers, tractors, .... and these investment has to pay buy selling days ( or making syndicates) with big days. On this type of shoots an pointing dog has no place. Even a true "hunter" spaniel has no more place there. The true spaniel with only one goal, finding game. These days you see those flashy white robots which look spectacular but don't hunt. Why is the vizsla so popular, because it's a breed that doesn't take to much ground when hunting. The EP, ES and the wider ranging continentals like the Brittany's and the GSP are very popular in France, Italy and Spain. Why? They have a free hunting system, where 2 or 3 shooting pals go out and shoot a few head a day. They need a wider ranging dog to find what is there. They don't hunt grounds where you walk over the (released) pheasants.
It's a shame that the changed way of shooting would ruin a breed.

We do have a few Auvergne's here, but not a lot.