Thanks for your story. I grew up hearing such tales told with the same conviction, so when I've been the recipient of such "visions" as yours, I was not quick to try and explain them away.
Those "Riff-Raff Pointers", as I knew them, were crosses between English Pointers and English Setters.
When you mate two dogs that each point birds, you are almost certain to get pups that will point birds.
But a couple of human Believers are apt to beget a child that declares from the outset that there ain't a damned thing in the Universe superior to his own intellect.
