VMD 513: Pet animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

SPORTING GROUP

•  Dogs in the sporting group include the setters, pointers, spaniels, retrievers, and a handful of others, all bred to hunt game birds. Some work in water, others on land, and still others in both. Their personalities range from mild to hard-headed to tough, but all are suitable family dogs for an active household of patient owners.
• Cocker Spaniels will not abide rough handling or teasing.
• If you cannot keep your dog confined in a securely fenced yard when he's not under direct supervision, choose a breed that is more willing to be a homebody; the sporting dogs were bred to hunt, and most will take advantage of every opportunity to follow their noses up hill and down dale.
• The stars of the sporting group are the Golden Retriever and Labrador Retriever. They enjoy the attention of well-behaved children and will usually put up with some bratty behavior. They are relatively easy to train, easy to care for, and often seem to be perpetually young.
• The setters are very high energy dogs that are fine for active families, and the pointers are working dogs that tolerate children but are not particularly easy to train as house pets.

Sorting group, this breeds should be kept confined in a secured fence, they enjoy the attention of well behaved children, easy to train, care.