Thread: Photos of your dog

Originally Posted by kawhia

yanky dog ?............ but hang on it's a pointer isn't it ?

I can't see the pic, but if you have put an American bred pointer up then yes, regardless of how it carries its tail, its a pointer. The tail is mere fashion.
If I were to be anal, you could say that the American FDSB strain is purer than the UK strain, considering it is founded by only a few founding imports and refined for well over one hundred years within a single country.
As an interesting side note, after WW2 when the UK were rebuilding the decimated native pointer breed with imports from around the world, there were many that came from the US in the 1940s. None of them had a natural high tail

Originally Posted by Pointer

I can't see the pic, but if you have put an American bred pointer up then yes, regardless of how it carries its tail, its a pointer. The tail is mere fashion.
If I were to be anal, you could say that the American FDSB strain is purer than the UK strain, considering it is founded by only a few founding imports and refined for well over one hundred years within a single country.
As an interesting side note, after WW2 when the UK were rebuilding the decimated native pointer breed with imports from around the world, there were many that came from the US in the 1940s. None of them had a natural high tail

so it's fair to say they are different types of the same breed, how the breeds change within the various countries is often followed by a name change of some sort and a separation of the working abilities and even appearance from the parent country.
fair to say the yanks have there own type of 'pointer' and refer to the english version as such an 'english pointer' the dogs of the 1940's were still 'english' type, the american pointers of today have evolved for the types of trials and working enviroments there.

the same rings true for the gsp / dk