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OK I’ll try to not be too long winded here: There are basically two types of bird hunting dogs: Pointers and flushers. Both find the birds by smell.
Pointers locate a bird and then “freeze” in place and the instinct of the bird is to also freeze, this gives the hunter time to approach and flush the bird. German shorthair, English and Irish setters, Brittney spaniels English pointers are a few.
Flushers locate a bird and rush in and basically try to grab it, which makes the bird panic and fly (flush). Springer spaniels cocker spaniels and most Labrador retrievers are a few.
Chloe’s mother was a flusher and her father was a pointer, but she was trained to be a pointer. Below is a photo of Lucy, our Springer. As you can see the German genes were dominant in Chloe.