Thread: My last dog couldnt swim so now i need a new one.

Cheers i sent him a couple calls so i will ask him when i talk to him.

Probably a good thing she's gone, by the look of her it was a matter of time before she began killing people looking so vicious and all.
I havent read every post but if you havent made your mind up get on the brittany train with me!

I couldn't imagine a Brittany in that river, labs however love it. In fact there favourite pastime, chasing sticks down them rivers......

I couldn't think of anything worse than owning a lab ha

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

I couldn't think of anything worse than owning a lab ha

I dont hear much (in fact, nothing before you) of guys using Brittany on deer. Is it more common in Australia?

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Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

I couldn't think of anything worse than owning a lab ha

Being Australians a start I like my lab

Originally Posted by Toby

Being Australians a start I like my lab

The fat, slobbery, hair shedding, piggy eating gutses that shit like horses? you can keep em ha don't get me wrong they're lovely friendly dogs but I'd much rather any legal hunting breed. Personal preference

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

I couldn't think of anything worse than owning a lab ha

Only means you haven;t seen a proper one Bro!

Originally Posted by Ruff

Only means you haven;t seen a proper one Bro!

If you told me the best dog in the world was a lab I'd believe you I just dont like them. Don't know what it is about them. Even the fit ones seem to end up fat pigs eventually though and I despise drooling slobering dogs that may have something to do with it ha

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

If you told me the best dog in the world was a lab I'd believe you I just dont like them. Don't know what it is about them. Even the fit ones seem to end up fat pigs eventually though and I despise drooling slobering dogs that may have something to do with it ha

Yeh thats how i feel but a mate has a 6 month old and it just loves retrieving stuff. He chucked a gumboot one day and with no training it ran over quietly picked it up and brought it back and dropped it at his feet. you cant beat that. Its not what you are after but it gives me a dilemma. get the perfect dog that i really dont want or get a dog i want that thats a great natural pointer but cant be assed leaving the mai mai to jump into the pond with icebergs just to get a bloody duck because its retrieval instinct is week. Im 50/50 lab/brittany.
Please dont abuse me cos I havent chosen a lab yet.

Originally Posted by username

Yeh thats how i feel but a mate has a 6 month old and it just loves retrieving stuff. He chucked a gumboot one day and with no training it ran over quietly picked it up and brought it back and dropped it at his feet. you cant beat that. Its not what you are after but it gives me a dilemma. get the perfect dog that i really dont want or get a dog i want that thats a great natural pointer but cant be assed leaving the mai mai to jump into the pond with icebergs just to get a bloody duck because its retrieval instinct is week. Im 50/50 lab/brittany.
Please dont abuse me cos I havent chosen a lab yet.

If you are stoked with the dog, you will put way more effort and time into it than if you aren't. I'm kinda the same, username, and I'll admit its silly. But I see labs all the time: fat and slobbery like BH describes them - I don't see the side of them from good lines as good hunting dogs. So when I compare video/photos of a mean looking athletic HPR breed, I feel that even though a good lab from a good line would be as good (or maybe even better), it wouldn't have the same novelty and excitement as an HPR and therefore I probably wouldn't have the same motivation to put heaps of hours of training into it. I think I probably shouldn't get a dog until I don't have this fallacy. But surely, seeing a mint as lab at work would cure it, I just never see that.

When it comes the time to look for an indicator dog, I'll mix with a few guys who have different breeds and ask if I can see them at work. I wouldn't be surprised if its the lab that comes out on top for me, but I'll have to see it with my own eyes before I really get stoked on one.

Am I making any sense?

nah not common, they aren't common in general. In aus its 99.99% GWP, get a wild deer or Australian deer hunter magazine and its riddled with them, the odd bloke has a GSP or Vizsla but thats about it.
I'm sure there are a few but labs are pretty much just bird dogs here.
The thing to remember though is we have had really strict laws on the breeds of dog allowed to hunt deer so its created a wirehair culture.
A few blokes do use them for deer though, I'm yet to hear anything bad about them. GWP was always my first choice but with the missus to please I had to compromise and now the brit idea has grown on me.
Still keen to get one yourself one day?

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

nah not common, they aren't common in general. In aus its 99.99% GWP, get a wild deer or Australian deer hunter magazine and its riddled with them, the odd bloke has a GSP or Vizsla but thats about it.
I'm sure there are a few but labs are pretty much just bird dogs here.
The thing to remember though is we have had really strict laws on the breeds of dog allowed to hunt deer so its created a wirehair culture.
A few blokes do use them for deer though, I'm yet to hear anything bad about them. GWP was always my first choice but with the missus to please I had to compromise and now the brit idea has grown on me.
Still keen to get one yourself one day?

Interesting. Yeah no surprises with the missus, those GWP are ugly bastards haha. Yeah definitely. I love dogs and mad keen to get myself an indicator. I have to be careful not to let my eagerness land me with a dog before I'm ready to give it the training it needs. I'll look closely how you get on with your Brittany; if it's good it would be worth considering for myself when I start to look for one.

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Yep , any dog that works with passion and with manners no matter what breed is fun and a pleasure to work with

http://www.buccleuchgundogs.com/labr...lery/flashpage

Good labs.... athletes.