Hunting with non-hunting breeds (Spam Kill)

[Buckshott00]

Any of you guys ever try hunting with working breeds or breeds not identified as hunting breeds?

I've heard of guys hunting with German Shepherds only to have them eat a downed bird (though to be fair I've had a GSP try to do that too!)

[FirstBubba]

My grampa had a collie that was a pretty good squirrel dog.

[Buckshott00]

Pointing? Retrieving?

[jhjimbo]

As a kid we had Greyhounds - 10 pups at one time, we kept two. We were on a Farmette and never had a coy dog problem, or even racoons. We used to take them out alongside the car for exercise. If I remember they were good for 40+mph.
Then we had standard poodles. Terrific fighters and good bird dogs - some are used for hunting in Europe
Greyhounds are famous for being the breed of Egyptian Pharaohs. I guess a lot of dogs got hunting jobs because of their nose.

[Buckshott00]

I can believe basically any hound running down game. They use a fake rabbit for the prey drive to get them to run really fast.

I know lots of guys that use standard poodles as hunting dogs. Very trainable.