I'm thinking about adding a flushing dog to my pointers to give my clients a flavor of the different dogs. I have friends that have Boykins and English Cockers. Are there any flushing dogs with short hair? I'd prefer not to spend any more time than necessary combing out their coats. I've also considered a lab or a chessie.
What would you choose?
Thats a tough one... My lab is a flushing fool. One of the reasons I can't bring him any where near chukar... They wont make it off the ground.
Only bad I can think about of labs for flushing dogs is you have to be very regulated on feeding them. As long as you can keep him fit and in shape they are hard to beat. Again they tend not to have the natrual enduance like your pointing dogs. No matter how in shape my dog is he can't hang all day with a GSP that has equal endurance training.
I have to know when to put him up in the panhandle and let him get a breather, but as long as he get those breathers his golden