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Ok People I've read about the style of dogs and my dog, or breed has more style than yours etc...

Well Lets see them. Whats style to you ?

Heres a couple of my boys Tucker and Neo, and the last two dogs are out of my Neo. I have them in for training this year,Buck, and the last two pictures are of Rusty.

Larry Lowell
http://www.PointingDogTrainer.com

Tucker





Neo





Buck, Neos son



Rusty, Neos son

That right there look's like style to me.

I'm wit' those who feel "style" boils down to the manifestation of desire:

Here's a few of dogs that I own. Rusty's passed on, but Rowdy is his son, and I think the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Riley is Tavi's momma.
Rusty
Rowdy
Riley
Tavi

Doug

Hey Lowell, thanks for returning my call months ago!! I do love Neo, I keep telling people they need to look to him for breeding. I'd say your dogs are the definition of style. Tell your wife and kids hey for me.

Larry the style in those dogs is good, but the intensity in the bottom dog is what turns me on. He's so bug eyed there he looks like he's about to explode! Nice pups. CR

Must be in the name
Here's my Tucker "Tuck"
Intensity

Style

Yep I'd say these dogs have style!! Very nice guys.

Style is communication.

All those dogs look good, I sure like the way a pointer looks though! Hard to beat IMO!!!!!

And then the good ole GSP!

Style..

Style is the difference between, "your dog is on point" and "Wow look over there, your dog is on point!". CR

Wagonmaster wrote:Style is communication.

A dog saying, DONT------MOVE------THERES------A------BIRD------RIGHT-------OVER-------THERE,------WHATS-------WRONG------WITH-----YOU----?????------LOOK------IN------MY------EYES,------I------SAID------OVER------THERE,------STUPID.


Larry Lowell

WildRose wrote:Style..

Style is the difference between, "your dog is on point" and "Wow look over there, your dog is on point!". CR

Style is most definity the WOW factor. When I see it, it make my heart skip a beat, then race really fast.

Larry Lowell

White River's Tiger Lily

Dirtysteve

Whats the Breeding behind your Tucker dog ?

Larry Lowell

Link to ped.
http://www.perfectpedigrees.com/4genview.php?id=845

I appreciate looking at all the nice pictures. Thanks much!

Here are a few of mine.

Chief


Dixie


Ace

This pic is of NGDC FC Hit's For Pete's Sake. I just don't think you can find more style or intensity in a Brittany.

My GOODNESS theres ALOT of shorthairs on here!

Ya lets not forget the Brittany side of things guys

My young prospect Tanner





One of my favorite pics and I think is the defination of style

Bullet

and for sure don't forget about the "springer" side of things....

Meaning of "Style" you ask?... see below .... intensity & desire & fun in gettin' the job done!


Abby on "Point".... ... (one of the few pix's of her standin' still... hard for a Springer to do...)

Style to me is simply the way a dog looks standing on a bird or it's way of going in the field. Without intensity, style is pretty, but won't make me sit up to tall. Style when running is simply the dogs way of going. Hard for me to put a finger on it, but some dogs just look better going than others. My Squirt looks better going than my Bodie but watch them alone and both look good. Yet Squirt will divert my attention from Bodie usually. Some dogs just lumber along, Bodie does not lumber, he simply doesn't run smooth enought compared to Squirt. But a dog with intensity and style makes me sit up and watch for fear of missing something. The dog that carries that over into the bird work, almost to the point of recklessness, get's my complete and undivided attention. On the other hand the dog that runs with style and intensity but points its birds in a so-so manner, maybe good style but no intensity or the other way around, I lose intrest in.

I think both dogs have good style and intensity on birds and will only get better but, when they run, Bodie looks like he's got his after burners kicked in while Squirt looks like he's floating on a magic carpet. I'm not sure which is really the fastest but Squirt does it with less effort!

Squirt


Bodie

Style shmyle - Pardon me, while you guys are standing around staring at your dogs trying to figure out what they're telling ya', I'm gonna play thru:







They're all looking good folks!! Nice! Rick Hall's setter pic - yah, my favorite. That's the style and look of a working, hunting bird dog!

Here's my little girl Mae - she's a natural! These pics are from yesterday when we picked her up from Bruce at Almost Heaven GSP's!

Doug

Playing through, did you see the feather on the end of the dog's nose. Good stuff for sure.

Pepper

Here ya go Heather, how about this one:

This guy took another placement at a NSTRA trial last weekend though now that he's shaved he has considerably more ticking that I thought he had.



This little gal was 6 months old at the time. I took her into a field a couple days ago and she is pointing song birds like crazy. The more she point the more "stylish" she becomes. She is holding her head high and her tail is getting higher as well. As stylish as her points are becoming that pales in comparison to her style when running.


This is my lab running with what I consider style. When she's running at top speed her stride gets even longer.

From my last litter of pups, Effy. Short for F'in dog!


Dalin when he was being broke out.

I think that alot of dogs make their own style(communication) to you and you have to learn what that means.Nice pics guys heres a few of mine.

Killer-I for one wanted to say thanks for the springer pics. Many do not appreciate the sheer joy and intensity a good springer does everything with. The epitome of the ESS is captured by your middle pic, ears flappin, mouth grinnin, B@!!s to the walls!

Brings back some great memories!!!

muddycreek wrote:Killer-I for one wanted to say thanks for the springer pics. Many do not appreciate the sheer joy and intensity a good springer does everything with. The epitome of the ESS is captured by your middle pic, ears flappin, mouth grinnin, B@!!s to the walls!

Brings back some great memories!!!

Never a dull moment, for sure, and I wouldn't want it any other way...
Thanks for the compliment....

tfbirddog2 wrote:I think that alot of dogs make their own style(communication) to you and you have to learn what that means.Nice pics guys heres a few of mine.

tfbirddog,

Is that black dog a weim/lab mix? For some reason I think I remember you mentioning that at some point...nice pictures!

Here is what a man that dedicated his life to it thinks what style should be.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Of1QE3yg6_w& ... re=related

MTlee, yes you are correct she is a weimador.Sorry it took so long to get back to you bee out of town.

R-Middleton wrote:Here is what a man that dedicated his life to it thinks what style should be.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Of1QE3yg6_w& ... re=related

That is a NICE girl...That is my idea of style!!!

Stylish lady

Backing after flush

After three pages I still haven't seen a vizsla picture. Of course, I've got to remedy that:

This isn't my dog, his name is Strider, he's owned by a lady on the east coast. I can't remember her name at the moment ....Pat Sanborn I believe. Nothing needs to be added to this.

There are some nice looking dogs on here everyone.

Jack


Jack



Jill @ 5 months



Maggie, A product of Ted meyers breeding....




Enjoy, Chip

Maggie the female above was out of the 3rd breeding of Ace & Ginger.My solid liver avatar dog Major was from the first mating of those 2 dogs.Ace passed last Feb.Ginger is still living & will be 14 come Oct. Charlie Rose owns a solid liver female littermate to Maggie.Ace & Ginger are the foundation dogs of my kennel.They both came from Bob Merkel of Wrenegade Kennels in Iowa & I'm very proud of what they have given me.The style you see is typical of my dogs,& they are as lovable & personable as you will find anywhere.If it sounds like I'm bragging well I guess I am.

Another product of Ted's fine breeding.

There are some great pics in this thread and some really nice dogs. Thanks for posting them up!

WildRose wrote:...the intensity in the bottom dog is what turns me on. He's so bug eyed there he looks like he's about to explode! Nice pups. CR

Right on, CR. It's the wroiled body, cranked head, skid to a stop "FREEZE RIGHT THERE!" when they shake from being so jacked up on bird scent. That's the style I love to see in the field. This is a picture of Jake @ 9mos old. He had a rooster and two hens nailed down and my wife was walking in to flush.

Dogs I have owned from the past. Loved the style of them all.

Wow, there are some GREAT looking dogs on these pages. Of course, I'm mighty partial to Ayres' vizsla Justus.....

Here is a pic of a LB & Wendy female at 10 mos of age pointing a pigeon about 30 yrds off.

These are some sweet shots everyone. Great looking Dog's!!!!

All those dogs look great guys! Here are some style pics of my pup Bryant





And he even has style in the house!

Taking a drink of mom's oj while she is asleep



And napping on the chair