Flairball

I like the English Springer Spaniel. Great hunting dogs, and great family dogs. I'll be getting another. As for the English Cocker, there are not many breeders breeding them for the field. and as for Clumbers even less. Get a dog that's breed to hunt. You can train a field bred dog into a great house dog, but you can't train a house/ bench dog into a great field dog. Sometimes not even a decent field dog. (There are rareexceptions, don't want to hear about them)

As for the Brittany; a good little compact pointing dog, but not a Spaniel as suggested. This dog was once classified as a Spaniel, but removed about 10 years ago because it is a ponting dog. Spaniels aren't supposed to point, they're flushing dogs.