Ya, and 20 years from now a straight non moving 12:00 tail may be may be a horrible thing. I may be exaggerating but who knows what the next fad will be in pointing dogs. I am not a fan of the 12:00 tail myself but I know I am in the minority. It's just that it seems like at some point people with influence or whatever decide what style should be in a pointing dog and start breeding for it and promoting it. Before you know it [it does take some time] anything less or different is a cull and what used to be great style is now ugly :roll: .ezzy333 wrote:If you want to mprove the breed or any breed for that matter you are all concerned about improving the wrong end. I am always amazed at the fact that probably 8 out of every ten posts about any of our dogs today are directed at the tail. Either it moves, it is carried at the wrong position, it isn't straight enough, or some other fact that has nothing to do with hunting ,pointing, or reteiving a bird.
What a change from the not to far past. How and why does the tail have so much importance suddenly? Used to be the nose or the movement, and now the tail. Just unbelieveble whaere we will go to critize our dogs. Between the food we feed and the tail that wags we have some serious problems that have appeared on the scene in the last decade or two.
Ezzy
Now that I got that off my chest , I will agree that it would be nice to se more intensity on point in the SM but from what I have read and seen, they are pretty darn good hunting dogs.
Charlie