German shorthaired pointers – a wunder dog?

Labs for sitting on the peg and retrieving, spaniels for beating and dogging in? Pointers and setters for grouse? Do we have too many dogs or would just one do? Janet Menzies ponders.

There is a serious danger that we may just have lost our last excuse for having so many dogs. Up until now there has really been no answer in Britain to the argument that we need our traditional labradors for sitting on the peg and retrieving; springer spaniels to do the beating and dogging-in; pointers and...