In delayed response to the above request,I wiil try to post photos and info and will add more photos if this works.Re: Happy Thanksgiving
by Vikram » Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:21
Great dogs,GWPs.Do you train your dogs? A member of ours who is not very active is quite passionate about dog training and trains a lot.In UK of course.A lot of our members are into dogs.Only, the art of training a gun dog and shooting and retrieving is almost lost. If you could put up any pics, that will be grand.Thank you.
First of all, let me that that I have a wide background in many dog sports (17 champion conformation dogs, judging, 13 obedience titles, a Schutzhund title, plus hunt tests and field trials)and bird hunting with your dog is the MOST fun you can have with a dog. I do train my own dogs and compete, but just rambling around in the field looking for birds is great. Many men have said "I'd rather go hunting without my gun than without my dog". Any dog guy would agree. I hunt upland birds (quail, chukar, pheasant, woodcock), not waterfowl. My dogs are all house (and office) dogs; old theories that you have to keep hunting dogs outside are false.
Here is my Field Champion Demi, now #4 German Wirehaired Pointer in the country,
My Gordon Setter Covey and I. Covey has most of his Field Championship, a Senior Hunter title (highest score at the Gordon National Hunt Test in the last three years) and an obedience title as well.
This is Covey in a modified "pretzel point". Sometimes a good dog wil be racing along, catch a faint whiff of bird scent, skid, spin and and "pretzel" point. Very neat to see.
Let's see if this posts. More to come. If it is in any way possible (I realize bird hunting is limited in India) and if you are a "dog guy", you will have a great time working with and hunting your dog.
Here is a picture of myself (on left ) and two elderly friends with dogs that are NOT mine.I post it because, while I have highly-bred competition pointing dogs,this is not required to have a good time and to do well in the field.
The center dog is an Airedale. He is actually a Schutzhund III (guard dog title), but he hunts up a storm .He is a flushing dog,not a pointer.The dog on the right is a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon (not the same breed as my GWP by a WIDE margin). She is a very close-working stodgy dog, but she suits her owner well and she does a good job for him.
Many dogs, even cross- breds, can hunt. A friend of mine hunts pheasant very effectively over his Beagle! Not a retriever, but she find birds.
He persevered against moaning neighbours about a fox in the neighbourhood.
