Ouch daleh that's kinda harsh. True, chances are real low in getting a decent quality hunting dog from the pound. Another story, a woman with a youngenglish setter showed up at a large dog park the other day. The dog was probably around a year old or so. It ran fence line to fence line, easily 300-400 yards stopping to point once in awhile. I ask her about her dog. She told me she got it from a breeder of hunting dogs,maybe Seattle Setters. This pup was the last one and noone else wanted it and the breeder didn't want to sell it to them.The breeder told her itwas, "the best hunter out of the bunch."

Sad part is, the family are not hunters. Beautiful dog, good conformation, headup,straight 11 o'clock tail which probably grew into a 12 o'clock now. I told her to take it to a trainer to get it evaluated. Probably would make a good horseback dog. I would have liked to see the dog out in the open with no fences.

I don't know what happened to the dog but fortuneately or unfortuneately, they lived near the park and went there daily to let the dog run. If you could imagine that they didn't have the place, they'd put it up for adoption.