Used to show Newfoundlands in Ontario, New York & all over New England in early 70's. Puppy farms had a bad name then.

The dogshow crcuit spoiled a lot of breeds, with so much attention and argument over arcane points of anatomy, stance, gait. The unpopular as opposed to the popular working breeds come off best.
Have a dog now that is just like the dog my dad had when I was a kid, and works the same, points, retrieves, tough as nails. Will never be just a pet breed: too lively & boisterous, sheds like no other breed, every single day of the year, but what a gun-dog.




It's a Wire-haired Griffon Pointer or Korthals' Griffon. Lots of them in Texas and Quebec (originally a French dogbreed, bred by a Dutchman in Germany!!!)