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Gordon swears his Westie Albert helped retreive these ducks in Saskatchewan

Ive hunted a plantation nearly Albany GA where the owner's Rat Terrier (or maybe Jack Russell) retrieves and flushes.

Dachshunds are used as hunting dogs in Germany. Their name means "badger dog" and that's what they're intended to go after. One look at one trained for that and it's clear it isn't Aunt Tillie's lapdog.

Friend of mine takes his Jack Russell phez hunting. Much to be desired, but he is a help.

My german shepard would point and find downed birds.

My first German Shepard had wolf introduced into his blood lines. I think he would have ate most of them himself.

I think the point of all this "dogs will do the unexpected" is that they're all DOGS; that is, one species with a multitude of different looks. Most all dogs will point in the right situation; my first brace of beagles would trail rabbits all day but still stop and point a covey of birds when they came upon one. My wirehair would prefer to 'herd' the cat around the yard a little before she kills it. And the toy house dog will get as protective as a german shepherd when an 'intruder' arrives. Dachshunds will retrieve, I've seen'em do it.

By the way, my wife's shi-tsu didn't fail as a flush dog because he wouldn't flush, it was just that he instinctively backed the wirehair and the pointing lab whenh I tried him out. I wish I had taken a picture of those three "bird-dogs" all lined up on a covey of put out quail.

Whatever sort of dog you take as a friend, don't be surprised at anything it might decide to do...Geo

One of the best pheasent dogs I've been behind was a 12yr old beagle. A shipmate had a kennel of hounds, and his oldest dogs would come out for to hunt long tails. Old Jake seemed to know when we were bird hunting, and he only chased roosters, he even had a different bay...... Two howls and even an old long tail would put to the air.

I hunt with Setters but have a special place in my heart for a Scot's Terrier, so I would take the little mugs in the cab with me on a hunt occasionally to have someone to keep me company on the long drives to a hunting spot. The problems were that they would light out after the Setters and having short legs were soon winded and I would often have to carry them back to the truck. Then because of their short stature they were shorter then the surrounding grass and could disappear in to the thinnest of cover. I spent a good deal of time hunting for dogs that were with in a 100 ft of the truck.

My Terriers were great for laughs and companionship but definitely not hunters.