I think a good name for this video is “Big Red and White”– after Kjelgaard’s Big Red!
The red and white breed has more similar characteristics to retrievers than the modern red setter. However, the old-line Irish red setters were like this in conformation. The two “setter retriever” breeds got a lot of their conformation from these dogs.
Yes, this dog is retrieving a raccoon dog, and she is also retrieving a common or Eurasian teal.
What a nice look in the face. What a nice dog this Vera! I saw a hunting line red irish He was not tall and thin, as these modern show-types are. After seing a real old-fashioned setter, it’s not really hard at all to believe that retrievers carry this kind of blood in them.