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A Vizsla pointing . Pointing dogs, sometimes called bird dogs, are a type of gundog typically used in finding game. [1] [2] Gundogs are traditionally divided into three classes: retrievers, flushing dogs, and pointing breeds. [3] The name pointer comes from the dog's instinct to point, by stopping and aiming its muzzle towards game. This ...
The first dog registered by the Kennel Club Italiano, founded in 1882, was a Bracco Italiano. [2] Early in 1949 a breed standard was approved by the Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana, and later the same year a breed society, the Società Amatori Bracco Italiano, was formed.
Ariège Pointer. The Braque de l'Ariège is a normally proportioned dog with drop ears. The tail is traditionally docked.The coat is short and primarily white, speckled with larger patches of colours described as orange, liver, or chestnut on the head and ears.
The Braque Saint-Germain (translated into English as the St. Germain Pointing Dog) is a medium-large breed of dog, a versatile hunter used for hunting as a gun dog and pointer as well as for hunting other small game. Braque is a term meaning pointing dogs. The breed was created around 1830 by crossing English and French pointing type dogs.
The goal was to produce a dog that was willing and easy to train, intelligent, and loved water and retrieving, like the poodle, and add to that a great desire to hunt, a strong pointing instinct, and an excellent nose, like in the English Pointer, as well as being an excellent companion in the home.
The Pointer, sometimes called the English Pointer, is a medium-sized breed of pointing dog developed in England.Pointers are used to find game for hunters, and are considered by gundog enthusiasts to be one of the finest breeds of its type; however, unlike most other hunting breeds, its purpose is to point, not retrieve game.
The Field Dog Stud Book focuses on dogs bred to perform in the field. It supports no conformation showing.This stud book is affiliated with the field trial magazine The American Field which is the oldest continuously published sporting dog journal in the U.S. [1]
The breed was accepted by the FCI in 1985 [1] or 1995 [3] and categorized as a Continental Pointing Dog of the braque type. It is not yet recognized by the AKC in the U.S. First introduced into the United Kingdom in 1997, [ 6 ] they were featured in a "meet the breed" segment of the 2007 broadcast of the famed Crufts dog show in Britain.