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American Water Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Mle: 30-45; Female: 25-40 lbs
  • HEIGHT: 15-18 inches
  • COLOR(S) solid liver, brown, or dark chocolate
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Boykin Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 30-40; Female: 25-35 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 15.5-18; Female: 14-16.5 inches
  • COLOR(S) Brown or Liver
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Brittany Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 30-40 lbs
  • HEIGHT: 17.5-20.5 inches
  • COLOR(S) orange and white, liver and white, or tricolored
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Chesapeake Bay Retriever
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Mle: 65-80; Female: 55-70 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 23-26 Female: 21-24 inches
  • COLOR(S) any color of brown, sedge, or deadgrass
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Clumber Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 70-85; Female: 55-70 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 19-20; Female: 17-19 inches
  • COLOR(S) white dog with lemon or orange markings (thefewer the markings on body, the better)
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Cocker Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 24-28 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 14.5-15.5; Female: 13.5-14.5 inches
  • COLOR(S) Black variety: solid black or black and tan; ASCOB variety: cream, red, brown, and brown with tan points; Particolor variety: any color with white
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Curly Coated Retriever
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 80-100; Female: 70-90 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 25-27; Female: 23-25 inches
  • COLOR(S) Black or Liver
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English Cocker Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 28-34; Female: 26-32 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 15-17; Female: 14-16 inches
  • COLOR(S) solid black, liver or red or parti-color combinations of white with black, liver or red markings or ticking
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English Pointer
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 55-75; Female: 44-65 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 25-28; Female: 23-26 inches
  • COLOR(S) Lemon, liver, orange, black; in combination with white or solid-colored.
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English Setter
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Mle: 60-65; Female: 50-55 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 25; Female: 24 inches
  • COLOR(S) black & white, white & orange, white & lemon, white & chestnut or tricolor. Speckling may be present.
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English Springer Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 50; Female: 40 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 19-21; Female 18-20 inches
  • COLOR(S) black or liver with white, black or liver roan, or tricolored (black or liver and white with tan markings); also white with black or liver markings
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Field Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 35-50 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 18; Female: 17 inches
  • COLOR(S) black, liver, roan, or any of these with tan points
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Flat Coated Retriever
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 60-70 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 23-24.5; Female: 22-23.5 inches
  • COLOR(S) solid black or liver
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German Shorthaired Pointer
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 55-70; Female: 45-60 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 23-25; Female: 21-23 inches
  • COLOR(S) liver or combinations of liver and white
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German Wirehaired Pointer
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 45-75 lbs
  • HEIGHT: 22-26 inches
  • COLOR(S) liver and white, with ears and head solid liver, sometimes with a white blaze
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Golden Retriever
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 65-75; Female: 55-65 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 23-24; Female: 21.5-22.5 inches
  • COLOR(S) various shades of gold
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Gordon Setter
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 55-80; Female: 45-70 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 24-27; Female: 23-26 inches
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Irish Setter
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Mle: 70; Female: 60 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 27; Female: 25 inches
  • COLOR(S) mahogany or rich chestnut red
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Irish Water Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 55-65; Female: 45-58 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 22-24; Female: 21-23 inches
  • COLOR(S) solid liver
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Labrador Retriever
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 65-80; Female: 55-70 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 22.5-24.5; Female: 21.5-23.5 inches
  • COLOR(S) solid black, yellow, or chocolate
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Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 37-51 lbs
  • HEIGHT: 17-21 inches
  • COLOR(S) various shades of red and orange
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Pointer
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: Male: 55-75; Female: 45-65 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 25-28; Female: 23-26 inches
  • COLOR(S) liver, lemon, black, orange, either solid or mixed with white
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Spinone Italiano
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 62 - 82 lbs
  • HEIGHT: 22.75 -27.5 inches
  • COLOR(S) White, white with orange markings, white with brown markings, or speckled brown - with and without larger brown markings.
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Sussex Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 40-44 lbs
  • HEIGHT: 15-16 inches
  • COLOR(S) Gray, red-yellow, red-brown and gray-brown
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Vizsla
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 45-65 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 22-24; Female: 21-23 inches
  • COLOR(S) Solid golden rust
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Weimaraner
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 70-85 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 25-27; Female: 23-25 inches
  • COLOR(S) Mouse-gray to silver-gray
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Welsh Springer Spaniel
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 35-45 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Male: 18-19; Female: 17-18 inches
  • COLOR(S) Rich red and white
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Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
  • BREED GROUP: Sporting
  • WEIGHT: 50-60 lbs
  • HEIGHT: Mle: 22-24; Female: 20-22 inches
  • COLOR(S) Preferably steel gray with brown markings, also chestnut brown, or roan, white and brown. Less desirable is solid brown, solid white, or white and ora
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