If you want an all around hunting machine that can take temperature extremes the wirehaired pointer is miles ahead of a GSP... This is based on being around those breeds and brittanies a good part of my life. I would also say brittany but not sure I would want one around a cat and they tend to be wired but are also great hunting machines. There is a breeder in Idaho can't recall the name that I spoke to a couple of years back and he was importing German strain dogs.