Bird Dogs and Retrievers
Bird Dogs have a specfic job, To Find Birds on the ground.
Retrievers have a specfic job, To Retrieve downed birds.
There is no way that a Pointer or a Setter will everbe abetter retriever than a Lab for water fowl or Doves.
On the Same Hand, A Lab will never be a good as a Pointer or Setter at findingUpland Game Birds.
Each Breed of Dog has a specfic purpuse. Some are Versital and others are not.
Alot of Dogs have been altered over the yearsthroughselective breeding.
Irish Setters = almost completly ruined by the AKC by breeding for looks. Today most hunting Irish Setters have a small streak of white
From breeding to English Setters to put more drive and bird sense into a hunting breed that was almost lost.
GSP= bred to English Pointers to put more run and drive for field trials you can see this as so many GSPs are almost completly white.
English Pointers= bred to walker hounds to put more stamina and run in back in 60s when Setters dominated the sport
English Setters= bred to pointers ro make Setters more competive in FeildTrials in the 70s and 80s
Brittanys= bred to Setters to give them an edge in trials as well