[align=center][/align][align=center]Introducing Tiger of Cattail Corky SHR, CP
[/align][align=center]Excellent Bloodlines-Black/Yellow Factored
[/align][align=center]Sire Grandmaster pointing lab Cashzingers Cattail Corky out of HPK( view the sires pedigree@<a href="http://www.pointin...ng-lab.com</a>)
[/align][align=center]DOB 5-23-01, AKC/ UKC regestered, and DNA Profiled
[/align][align=center]OFA#LR-133803G24M-P1, EYE CERF, and Thyroid Normal. 75lbs pure muscle!
[/align][align=center]Tig has an excellent trainability and a natural desire. Superior marker,eager and willing on blind retrieves. Remarkable endurance and drive yet calm and relaxed in the home with our three young children.
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What is a CP? What does CP mean?

I believe it means CERTIFIED POINTER.

And CERTIFIED POINTER means or is....... What?

A Labrador Retreiver that is certified to point at the first level (of four) categories of performance (as a retriever as well as a retriever that points).

What?

Pointing Labs havefour levels of certification (titles). CP (Certified Pointer), APR (Advanced Pointing Retriever) and MPR (Master Pointing Retriever) -- Oh, there is also GMPR (Grand Master Pointing Retriever)

OK then we are making progress.

What does a dog have to do in the test to become a CP?

A Pointing Lab what exactly would you do with one? Why not just get a Pointer. I am sure they would find more birds.
Sounds Like buying one of those sport utility trucks not realy a truck.

For the same reason that people like GWPs or DDs. They are truly multi-purpose dogs. A traditional pointer might or might not find more birds. They would certainly cover more ground, but I've seen a few pointers that are so fast, that they will blow by some birds, where as the slower,more methodical dog won't cover as much ground, but they won't blow past birds either. For upland birds, both pointers and pointing labs have their positive and negative aspects.
A lot of people can't have - or don't want more than one dog. Why not "just get a pointer?" -- Very few of them will handle very well on blind retrieves, very few of them are willing to break ice water all morning for waterfowl, very few of them will sit quietly in the duckblind all morning scanning the sky for 'incoming' very few of them are 'natural retrievers'.

There are very few truly multi-purpose breeds that do well for both waterfowl hunting as well as upland and fur. GWPs, DDs and PLs do.

If YOU hunted waterfowl, upland and furred game all in the same day, and you could only have one dog, what would you chose?



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