Dog Quiz

[quizbrew]

Any suggestions for the answer to the following would be welcome.

Deer crashes into half a gill (7 letters)

The answer is the type of breed of dog - could be a crossbreed as well.

[quinie]

Just wondering if the setter has made a mistake here. Pointer is an anagram of roe and pint A pint is half a quart.
I'm probably barking up the wrong tree!

[quizbrew]

Thanks for suggestion Quinie, even if the pun was aweful :-)

Had wondered myself if they'd got confused over volume of gill and thought half was equal to a pint but reckoned it was a bit of a major error for them to have made, similarly confusing gill and quart :-(

I've been assuming that half a gill was indicating using two letters from gill in a compound anagram involving deer of some kind.

[quinie]

Yes,quizbrew,I've been trying to get a word from 2 letters of gill and name of a deer but no luck so far.I often say I'm barking up the wrong tree and didn't realize till I'd typed it that it could be a pun lol
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