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Attitudes of Tail
Unread 01-14-2014, 11:30 AM   #1
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Default Attitudes of Tail

There has been a lot of ink dedicated to styles, conformations, accepted behavior, and trends in bird hunting dogs for the last century and more. One of the topics of discussion has been the position or attitude of the tail of a dog on point. It is said that the development and training of a "high-tailed" dog began with field trialers and then with the bench set and the earlier preferred "level" position of the tail or dropped tail fell by the wayside.

The dogs I see engraved on our Parkers always seem to be holding their tails at the level position. I would suspect that a Parker produced in the Remington era might be more likely to show a dog with an elevated tail but I can't remember seeing one like this.

Can anyone show us a picture of his Parker with a dog holding its tail in a distinctly elevated position?
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