Any dog can be a hunting dog. Some do one kind of hunting better than others, and some will go after anything that moves including mailmen, cats, cars, boys on bicycles, salesmen, and even other dogs. But most trained hunting dogs go after birds and small animals like rabbits, fox, coons, and possum.
With their keen noses, bird dogs like the English and Irish Setters are taught mainly to locate game birds. When they find a bird, they stand a certain way - hunters call it pointing - showing their owners where the bird is. After the bird is brought down, the dog is then sent out to bring it back to his master. This is retrieving. It's just like the game you play with your dog when you throw a stick in front of you and ask your Fido to fetch it.
Retrievers, like the Golden and the jet black Labrador are especially trained to bring back water fowl that have been shot down over a body of water. They do a good job of retrieving land birds, too. Some hunters like a dog that can find game and retrieve it from both land and water. The Spaniels and the Weimaraner with their webbed feet are such combination all-purpose dogs.
An entirely different group of hunting dogs are the hounds like the Beagle, Foxhound, Whippet, and Borzoi. Hounds are used primarily to hunt for four-legged game rather than birds. One of the best-known hunting dogs is the Bloodhound. This breed is frequently used by the police to track down fugitives from the law. And sometimes little fugitive children who get lost or who run away from home can thank the Bloodhound's keen sense of smell for finding them.
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