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Re hunting with both pointing and flushing dogs, I have hunted twice in Virginia with someone who has two pointers and an English-bred Cocker Spaniel. When the pointers are on point, the Cocker is released and he goes in (usually under one of the pointers) and flushes the bird(s). Usually, the Cocker also retrieves and hops up into his handlers arms with the bird in his mouth.

I just came back from hunting quail in GA and that was the standard practice - pointers to find the birds and cockers to flush and retrieve. Works very well with quail - they don't stick around long once they come eye to eye with a cocker.

The little flushing cockers are used on released birds; probably wouldn't work very well or be needed for that matter with a truly wild covey of Bobwhites. I tried my wife's Shitsieu (sp?) as a flush dog since I have to feed him anyway. He just stood on the two-path road and barked when the birds got up...Geo

Well, I'd have to wonder whether a Shih-Tsu would be tall enough to get over the hummocks on the edge of the path, let alone get through any briers or brush if it has the normal long-ish silky coat of the breed.

Still, if one doesn't experiement, one will never know for sure.

Don't laugh guys but my neighbor and I tried his Corgi cattle dogs once. They worked pretty good except for their short legs. Thick CRP land was a total disaster for them.

Considering the huge jungles of impenetrable old blackberry vines that our local pheasants dive into when pursued I have considered carrying a Jack Russel in the back of my vest and unleashing him at the optimum moment. There would be some very surprised pheasants....

That right there is funny!! My wife has had a shitsu, and has a little white bishon/maltiese fuzball thing right now - I'd hate to think what she'd do if I took her little girl out to the bush......

To follow that thought - it was something to watch a poodle retreive ducks at our HRC hunt test. Wish I would have taken a picture. A poodle would probably work well braced with a pointer, so if your wife needs a lap dog.... Or you can just go with a Versitle breed and have one dog.

Gary

My e-pointer is starting to act like a lap dog. She wants to ride in my wife's lap in the truck

Good luck getting the pheaant back, though!

Years ago my best friend had a Dauchuond (sp) that was a great rabbit dog, and if we could get her around some of the, at that time scarce phesants, as long as the snow wasn't more than an inch deep she was enthusiastic to say the least. It was very difficult for her to retrieve a bird but she tried! Later, Mark II