Well I will agree with you Nulle on the trends of most dogs to become exploited, but I doubt it will happen in this case.....as someone said it has been mentioned on most of the news cast yesterday....and it seemed every one had to make their opinions known...one woman...on one of our local chanels said.."the dog does nothing for me"...another one said "I dont get it" also in most of the descriptions of the dogs...the moderator usually inserts specifics about each breed...."great family dog"..."good with children"...."great apartment dog"....you usually dont get that with the sporting class....I went down last year to the humane society specifically looking for a pointer...not one was to be found....the group "pointer rescue" is usually the place to look if you are so inclined...the more we thought about it, the less we wanted to go into an unknown direction...and my guy said he got one gun-shy dog in his life, he wouldnt want another one....I am rambling now...hey I thought the win was great and I still do....and Sonny and Nulle, we all know you guys have the best GSP's in the world....right....and I have the best English.....in fact I'll go now and kiss'em on the lips....