This dog has earned its title from its customary habit of crouching or "setting" when it perceives its game. There are several breeds of these animals, and each breed possesses its own particular excellences, which are combined in experienced and skilful hands by careful admixtures of one breed with another.

The English Setter.

While at work the Setter has a strange predilection for water, and this fancy is carried so far in some dogs that they will not go on with their duties unless they can wet the whole of their coats once at least in every half-hour. If deprived of this luxury they pant and puff with heat and exertion, and are perfectly useless for the time being.