Excellent answer. Thank you very much and I find dog breeds to be very interesting.
I am an American Brittany man myself and get my dogs from Beeline Brittany. (I know you didn’t ask but I love these dogs so much I take very opportunity to say something.)
Just to add to what you said, my first brit was the last dog taken from the litter and his breeder said he would not make a good companion dog as he was always going off by himself. After working with him for a few years, what I found was that he just had a much longer range and had fantastic drive (more german pointer than a german pointer). He was all work. He would even nip at other dogs if they distracted him while he was working. Once the sun went down (no birds to look at), he was a great companion. This breeder is the top guy in the breed and even he didn’t see it. I was lucky. His grandfather was an all breed champion and I’m convinced that mine would have been too if he had a better owner. (Odd to feel unworthy of a dog, isn’t it?)
No, I have had and been around several dogs that were better than me! (Everyone needs to be humbled by a dog once or twice...)
Never been around Brittany’s, but my wife has and she has nothing but good to say about them...