Choosing a Dog

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Oh figured I'd add an anecdote to this thread. I recently went with a buddy down to Oklahoma to pick up a setter puppy. It was going to be 1 of 3 6 month old pups that had a summer of training in the Dakotas. It's funny how things go...I was careful to keep my mouth shut as I didn't want to put my thumb on the scale at all. He ended up picking the dog I at first had pegged as the third best. Basically we handled all three, petting them and such. Then we ran each individually on some planted pigeons. He picked the wildest one that arguably ran the best. I would have picked the calmest one that arguably ran just as well. Unfortunately the prettiest one didn't range very far or show much independence, otherwise that would have been an easy choice.
 
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