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Robert Walton asks:

  >Thoughts on (or better yet experience with) the German Pointers?  How do  
  >they do on the above criteria?  Yellow labs?  Other breeds?  Advice  
  >appreciated.

I looked into getting aGerman short hair ~a year ago. They seem to 
be ideal all around dogs (esp. for hunting). The only thing that I was 
cautioned on regarding them is that they are high strung. They like to
be active. Depending on your family / home situation this may not
be an issue. I was told that they are good with kids.

I don't have one, so this may be inaccurate info.

RE: buying venison:

  >>By the way, venison sells for $8-$14 per pound here.  Since I wasn't
  >>able to hunt this year, I can tell you my table doesn't serve venison
  >>as often as I might like!
 
  >It's legal to buy venison where you live?  I didn't think it was legal
  >to buy venison anywhere in the US.
 
It is my understanding that it is illegal to sell native venison
which has been hunted anywhere in the U.S. However, ranch raised venison 
is legal to sell. Most, if not all, ranched raised venison is not 
whitetail, or mule deer, but some deer from the far east (axis deer maybe). 
NZ evidently has a thriving business raising deer and selling the venison 
on the world market. This is the venison that expensive restaurants serve.

- Doug