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Hunting Dogs concern to any dogs who assist humans in hunting. Exist sundry types of hunting dogs created for different tasks. The major hunting dogs include hounds, gun dogs, terriers and cur type dogs.

Between these categories divisions can be made upon the dog's skill sets.

Dogs Below I let you a list of breeds of each type and details for each category.

1-Hounds.

Sub- Category.

1- 1. Sighthounds: These ones are well adapted for visual acuity, knowing as "coursing" Sighthounds are quietly and very quickly, by nature their are independent.

1- 2. Scent hounds: Are used to trail, sometimes are used to kill game. They hunt in packs, and are excellent sniffing.

1- 3. Lurchers: Luchers are a sighthound crossed with a working dog breed-usually a pastoral dog or Terrier bred selectively for working.

2-Gun Dogs

Sub- Category.

2- 1. Retrievers: Were classified as a water spaniel. Retriever's role is to find and return shot game to the hunters, they can spend hours in a duck blind, visually spot and remember the location of downed birds. These dogs have large and gentle muzzles. (Water dogs are a subclass of retrievers.)

2- 3. Setters: These ones flush the birds at the hunter's command. They appear to have the ability to located and point at upland game birds.

2- 4.Spaniels: Have been used to hunt for hundreds of years.

2- 5. Pointers: They are trained to find and point at small game allowing the hunter to approach the game.

3- Feists: They are dogs that hunt "small" animals especially squirrels. The Feist was developed in the Southern USA reputedly from small Native American dogs and British.

4- Terriers: Are used to hunt mammals, a working terrier can go under-ground to kill out game. Hunters call them as terriermen.

5 Curs: Hunt similarly to terriers, these ones are used to hunt cougars, boards, raccoon and other large mammals.

Futher details about.

English Springer Spanish are popular gun-dogs for a variety of cover are closely followed in popularity by English Cocker Spaniels.Flusshing spaniels mix hunting between retriever and flushing skills.Clumbers, Sussex, and Field Spaniels are popular for their slower and methodical hunting pattern .

The American Water Spaniel and Boykin Spaniel are noted for their water work.

Flushers are often for pheasant hunting, they can be trained to work within gun range.

Other flushers, like the cocker, the Boykin and several types of spaniels pursue game until it goes for cover.Beagles adept at chasing through thick briars and brush after rabbits, nonetheless spaniels are also good rabbit hunting dogs.

Retrievers: Very good swimmers. Their skin secretes an oily substance that sheds water .