Great multi purpose hunting dog. Kinda reminds me of a trip I made to a Louisiana saw mill back in the late '60s. When we were there loading a couple of flatbed trailers with oak lumber, got to talking about dogs with one of the hands. (We were always looking for cow dogs and had purchased several from back East that were pretty good dogs). I asked the guy if he knew of any good cowdogs in the area and he said he knew where the best one was in the country. Little while later, I asked him if anyone quail hunted around there as a good friend from DeRidder would bring his pointers to the ranch every year and he had nice dogs. The sawmill hand responded that he knew of a real good bird dog. Before we left, I asked who owned the dogs he was talking about and if he had their phone numbers. He said he was the one who owned the dog. that you must have a big feed bill to feed a bunch of cowdogs and several bird dogs. He responded, "Not really, it is just one dog"....This is a true story.
I never asked the gent to price the dog as I was quite sure I could not afford him.
Adios,
Gary

I've stitched up some dogs from fighting with hogs and almost lost a good pointer when they all decided to jump on a big sow. Before we had good shock collars the prefered training method would have been to beat the crap out of that dog with the pig carcas then wire it to his collar and let him drag it the rest of the day. That always seemed to break them of catching jackrabbits.