My family and I are preparing for our move back to PA! After 15 years out of state, we are coming home!!!
I have 3 children and we would like to get a dog that would be a good family dog as well as able to hunt grouse, woodcock, pheasant with.

Any suggestions? What breed would you recommend and why? Thanks in advance.

I've owned labs all my life. They can do everything you are asking for and more. Mine have always been great family pets plus they hunt upland game and waterfowl and retrieve everything me and my buddies shoot. Mine come with me fishing and trapping too.

While
I love my German wirehair I would suggest you look at either a Gordon or English setter they are just better family dogs if you have small kids and can be trained do hunt anything trail blood and are easy to train and eager to please

Personally I lean more towards the Gordon then the English but that is just personal favorite of the spring set line

Labs can't be beat.Loving family dogs and great hunters.With 3 kids-a Lab would be in their glory.
Tom

For all the things you've mentioned, you would be well served by an airdale terrier. Plus they don't shed by the pound either.

English Springer just like having another kid around!

Cane Corso / Rottweiler/ German Shepherd/ Doberman Pincher/ American Bulldog/ Bull Mastiff/ Eastern Coyote Crossbreed!!

Asking a question like that will get as many different answers as there are dogs. Any breed has great dogs and bad dogs.

Or, you could just get a German Shorthair Pointer, or an English Setter. Not the skinny English Setters most Breeders have today, look for an old style English Setter. the big, heavy blocky head English types.

The best bird dog I ever had was a pointer/lab cross that I got at the shelter.

Got her for a narcotics dog and let her out for a bit in an enclosed training area where I had some quail in launchers for the bird dogs...she went right on a great point and retrieved like a champ.

Great disposition and she became the house dog.

Get a Brittany, Good hunters, very clean dogs, and you will sometimes wonder if you own a dog, they are not "needy" like a Lab.

Bout any breed of dog is more reliant on how it's raised.
Families that are like a circus and always have drama, have dogs that act the same, and families that are laid-back have dogs that are laid back.

All in how you raise them.

Get a Brittany spaniel great dog.

Had to argue with the above.
Mac

Airdales are the way to go.

Chocolate labs for 25 years.

They also are like little kids, and come a running when it's time for ice cream.

WS

I myself am a lab fan, loving , loyal, obedient, and high energy. Find a dog that fits your family and lifestyle. Like hippie said, dogs will act the same way as the people raising them. My mailman told me the other day, good dogs have good owners, he said I had good dogs, lol.

Great advice guys, lots to think about. Only reservation on the lab is the high energy. Thanks everyone!

Thank you and these are for Sale.

My newest addition loves to fly too!



He and my granddaughter wear each other out.






They grow out of that high-energy puppy stage by the time they are................................seven or eight years old!