I haven't done a lot of feather with my bitch, but she was a natural from the word go. So soft mouthed it amazed me. The one time I took her on a shoot where there was a flight pond, she was straight in there putting the ducks up. When a pricked bird came down and hid under the overhanging brambles at the edge of the pit: had steep high banks, she practically submerged to go in there and find it. Took her some time, but she persevered and eventually came out with the duck, and had to climb near on vertically up the bank through the brambles with it. It is that sort of determination and perseve