So... we all love our dogs. I have one english pointer that sleeps in the house with me. But he stays outside all during the day, needless to say he is a little spoiled. Any one else have a little buddy that stays in the house with them?

He still hunts great just loves to be with me in at night.

Our GSP stays in with us but sleeps in a kennel. Goes just about anywhere/everywhere we go for short trips and rides in a kennel on long trips. Still a pup but we don't expect any of it to change. She's just part of the family.

wheeew. all my buddies give me crap about having my buddy with me all of the time. he still hunts with the best of them.

January 12, 1992: This was a hunt I'll treasure forever. I went out this morning with ET, and SK. We hunted the Goat pasture near Wharton. It was wet and the water was standint in the low places. The quail were on the ridges.I don't know how many coveys we got up. My guess is 12 to 14. Some ridges had two or three coveys in a small area. All the coveys were pointed. Some were devided finds that we originally thought was a point and a back.

Sis made a little loop to hunt by herself.

Ginger pointed three coveys while Sis was gone. Her second was a covey that brought old memories of South Texas hunts during her prime. It's not classic, but the covey was running and she stayed with them. She knew what she was doing and we knew what she was doing. She had a perfact location when the birds stopped. She went on to point several more times including a dead bird that we had shot out of our first covey.

Ginger was always the least trouble of any dog i've ever owned. Cathy sneaked her in several times to sleep with her over the holidays. She was a lady.

We knocked down 37 birds and picked up 34 birds.

Ginger died in her kennel after the hunt.

heck of a story there bill, i guess if she had to pick a day to go that was it.

We have 3 in the house. Two sleep in crates at night and the third sleeps on a pad at the foot of my bed.
The outside kennel is used if I'm away for a few hours.

its an old wives tale that pointers cant live in the house. my pointer lays around like an old dog. even when we are hunting and he is in the porta kennel and we are getting out of the truck to hunt i have to lift him up out of the kennel. once i get him on the ground and get his e collar and astro collar he waits until i tell him to go. then his switch turns on and BAM! he is off with more drive than i could imagine. way more than my shorthairs . within a minute or two i have to look at my astro to know were he is and he is out 500-600 yards. you would never know it seeing him lay around the house

agreed, brought mine home 4/1/2006, she's never slept outside unless i was there and hunts like crazy. She was 19 mos when I got her and she had never been inside a house.

My pointer sleeps in a crate at the foot of my bed every night.

y'all are too soft - mine is happy as a clam outside in her kennel year round.........with the exception of her indoor excursions when I'm not at home and my wife is...............

My GSP always sleeps in the house. Wife won't have it any other way. He stays outside as much as possible during the day. He's hard hunting son of a gun too.

Yes, and this is a spoiled dog. Lol.

Actually....we sleep in their house!

I agree, I have two hunting breeds in the house, don't hunt with them, but like it's been said above, we go outside and play, they turn it on. I have a GSP and Weimaraner.

Weim crates at night, GSP either foot of the bed, or at my feet on the bed.

Both have the run of the house during the day, never have issues.

I keep mine inside. The GSP sleeps in the crate when we go to bed and the little one says at the foot of the bed. They are both great inside dogs. No problems.

My parents and I each have a female GSP. When I'm up at school, she is an inside dog (although she always wants outside to stalk the birds at the bird feeder :D) She sleeps either under my bed or on her bed at the end of my bed. My parents dog is also and inside dog. She is a couple years older and has gotten lazy. Doesn't want to go outside if its raining, etc. She sleeps on her bed and is content!

Only problem I had was when my girl was just a couple months old, she ate a couple pairs of flip flops and a pair of binoculars. We figured out together that this was not ok and have not had a problem since.

Got her as a pup and she only went to the bathroom maybe a half dozen times through out potty training. Smart dogs!