I hunted behind a smallish female Brittany in South Dakota the last several years. Not my dog but the owner of the lands dog. She is simply a bird machine. A great little hunter in the field. But in the truck or back at the lodge just the best low maintenance pet you could imagine. Only drawback that I have seen in about 4 years of hunting with the dog is that the tall grass, cat tails and so forth do wear her down, in part because of her small stature.