Thread: Pheasant Dog

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

If you have the open country go for open/wide ranging dogs... Just my personal opinion: P&S dogs have a much more sensitive nose than springers/spaniels so you gain efficiency in covering more ground, and with scarcity of birds in NZ you need efficiency.

Never had much of a reason to disagree with you Pete but that is total rubbish! Having dealt with a few thousand dogs, allowing that one is primarily an air scenter and the other a ground scenter, I wouldn;t be be prepared to make such a wide geralisation. I do not believe for one second P&S dogs have better or more sensitive noses than spaniels at all.