>>437717The spaniel family holds the greatest number of all-around hunting characteristics.
>Fur and fowl instinct.>Natural flushers>Easily trained pointers>Moderately easily trained retreivers>Natural swimmers>Fearless of cover>Greater temperature range than drathars>More versatile than retreivers>More vocabulary than pointers or settersPlus, they are adorable. No soccer moms ever went screaming from a spaniel.