posted on June 16, 2004 04:16:01 AM new
It looks to me like a setter, I realize it is not a detailed model, but I need to have some kind of name for it.
posted on June 16, 2004 04:23:10 AM new
Hi Amber, how are you? Looks like a red setter to me, too. Irish retriever might be another name for him. He's very nice, is he marked? The glaze looks familiar.
posted on June 16, 2004 06:42:30 AM new
Thanks folks. I did wonder about an English Cocker spaniel, but I thought the neck was too long, they are usually more squat with a shorter body I thought.
Hi earthmum, it is Blue Mountain Pottery, made about 20 miles from where I live.
TnErnie, what you see of the tail is all there is, but that doesn't mean much, it is not really detailed.
posted on June 16, 2004 10:37:44 AM new
Hard to see in the photo for me but Irish setters have real long legs and this dog seems to have much shorter ones. Sort of looks like am American cocker spaniel or a Springer. Perhaps the figure was not meant to be exacting in it's depiction and few dogs meet the breed standard in conformation anyway.
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posted on June 16, 2004 12:51:38 PM new
It's a smaller spaniel, look at the ratios, if it were an Irish or something larger, it wouldn't have such a big head to body proportion.
Maybe it's a nice old style hunting cocker, before the faddish akc'ers got ahold of it and debrained it by worring about tails, coats and colors.
posted on June 16, 2004 12:59:36 PM new
It probably is somewhat generic, but it is much better to have a name in the listing. I think I will call it a Cocker Spaniel in the title, and then say it could be a setter in the description. I don't know what else to do. I don't think "dog" would do it! Thanks for the suggestions.
posted on June 16, 2004 01:17:09 PM new
what the heck,mention mastiff,bull mastiff,french mastiff,blood hound,pointer,weimaraner,russian wolfhound,irish wolfhound,scottish deerhound,whippet,greyhound,italian greyhound,norwegian elkhound,otterhound,saluki,chowchow,tibetan mastiff,pug,charpei,shar pei,english bull dog,etc etc
tell us how many hits you get !!
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If you have room, I'd suggest you include the word "dog" in your title. Cocker spaniel dog, setter dog, whatever...
A while back I had a group of German shorthaired pointer memorabilia-type things. Listed them twice with no interest. Then, thanks to Roadsmith, I included "dog" in the title and gave it one more shot. Ended up with multiple bidders.
posted on June 16, 2004 04:50:31 PM new
Glad to help, Amber.
I've gotten much better at writing my titles, too. Of course sometimes there's nothing but keywords in there and it's hard to make it at least *sound* like a coherent sentence but it DOES work.
Way more hits and bids. I find my keywords by searching for similar auctions on eBay and checking out the ones that sold the highest.
posted on June 17, 2004 09:39:35 AM new
dog owners and breeders look for specific breed,they dont search by 'DOG'.
They know their breed because they see it everyday,you can ask them to email you what they think it is.
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posted on June 17, 2004 09:49:25 AM new
stopwhining-That's a good idea. That is why I was hoping to find the specific breed, but I am not even sure it's meant to be a specific one.
