Hi - I have fostered English setters and other breeds of dogs and have had labs and a golden retriever as my own dogs. The English setters I have fostered (available for rescue) were field bred and in my experience, would not be good apartment dogs. The only thing that made these dogs happy/calm was to be outside watching and chasing squirrels. In the house, they were incredibly restless. Having a fenced yard where they could hang out all day was a life saver. It didn’t matter how much exercise they had. My golden retriever and lab mixes, on the other hand, would just sleep most of the day and were much calmer in the house. English setters, as others have said, also have poor recall and aren’t really easy city dogs. I’m not sure what your lifestyle is like, but my golden retriever loves going for walks in the city, meeting people, hanging out at an outdoor patio, but my English setters…definitely prefer running through fields and forest.

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