by Rick » Sat Jul 19, 2014 5:07 am
Seems to me that a great many animals have inherent point, just watch guys when a gal who wears her jeans well walks by. Just an arrested stalking motion, but we, perhaps inadvertently, train it out of most everything but pointing dogs, where it's encouraged with "whoa" and/or silent checkcord training.
My now long gone beagle, Chas, used to tickle me by often pointing sitting game before busting it, because those points offered a heads-up on what he had: tail would be stiff for quail or woodcock but spin like it might lift his butt for swampers or cottontails. Chas' points didn't last but a very few seconds, but there was plenty there to mold into steady points had I treated them like I have my pointing breed pups.
'Course is pisses a lot of pointing breed guys off to hear it called "point," instead of "standing game," when something without "pointing" in its name does it.