Have had three. Fantastic dogs. Methodical, very good retrievers, good water dog in decent climates, superb noses, mine would hunt themselves to death ... I needed to watch one in particular to keep him from getting heatstroke. He never knew when to quit.
Two were absolute sweethearts. The male, however, had a bad temperament. He would bite kids. Also, I wear a scar on my ring finger from another Shorthair that bit me when I was 7.
Some lines have absolutely unbelievable style on point. I had liver-and-roan, but I think liver-on-white Shorthairs are drop-dead gorgeous.
I'm doing Springers now, but I would do another Shorthair. Great hunting dogs.
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