Sporting Dog BreedChoosing a Sporting Dog Breed
High distractibility. While this characteristic helps these breeds notice and find birds and other game, it may make it difficult for them to achieve focused attention during exercises like sit-stay and down-stay. They may have trouble completing the come command in distracting situations. Sporting dogs may tend to be very distracted by the other dogs and people in group-class.
The Spaniels and Setters in this group may be overly “sensitive”. This may make them easy to “correct” but not always suited to live with small children.
The Retrievers in this group may be overly “insensitive”. This may make them more difficult to “correct” but better suited to live with small children.
High need for daily exercise – Sporting breeds are sometimes described as “hyper” since they have been bred to notice and react to everything while running all day! These dogs need running exercise. A walk around the block is not enough. These dogs may develop problem behaviors like barking, digging, destructiveness, pacing or fence running if not exercised enough. | 
