Looks like a great dog with a lot of heart. Why the dig at versatile breeds?
I grew up at home with a lot of German shorthairs or at least what I thought was lots. After getting set up married houses land all that life stuff time to buy some dogs. Myself just like my dad I rush out and get a Shorthair. Oh, life is grand and a couple good bounces in life with hard work, as it turns out a fella can hunt lots. I am not just hunting on Saturdays any more with dads mostly retired friends the hunts are getting bigger longer maybe a week or more at a time, friends start picking up the sport as well with their versatile dogs…
Some pretty darn good dogs with lots of good hunts but then we start to running into other problems we are out hunting the dogs a dog can’t tell you how much it is hurting but you can see it so we start cycling dogs in and out, that will work sure but then we ask ourselves what are we really hunting here? Ducks, geese the neighbour lady’s beaver? Well no, upland game pretty much exclusively pheasants are another story I almost most dread running into them at times.
A person really has to ask them self’s what sort of person are they and then match themselves with certain breed traits and the game they will be hunting. Does the perspective buyer call people names do they have little to no patience is a dog being out of gun range the end of the world are they old with health problems is the misses hi strung will the dog have to live inside?
There are of course expectations to every rule but for the most part on upland game but not pheasants from what I have seen Pointers and setters rule the field. When I see a half dozen pointers and setters ripping up the parries all on the ground at once not much is more enjoyable others would see mayhem.
Lots of hunting makes for good hunting dogs of any breed,
Heart and them some with the Drahtaar she did this a few days ago never new until after the hunt.
