new dd pup

[Lee Root]

Another one.

Lee

[Lee Root]

I got together with another DD owner today to do a little water work.  At first we tried Dharma with a bumper and she only got about belly high.  She wanted it but was unsure about it all.  She would stop and paw at the water then go back to shore.  I floated her on the water and let her go once, but she just headed right to shore and nipped at the vegetation and blew bubbles with her nose under water.  So we put her up while we worked with some ducks with the other dogs. 

Once we got her back out and showed her a duck it was all we could do to keep her out of the water.  She retrieved one of the dead ducks a bunch.  Then we were standing around  and suddenly realized that she was out in the water on her own, just swimming around. 

Enjoy the pictures..Lee

[Gutpile]

Great looking pup. Looks like your having a great time. Question though. Isn't Deutsch-Drahthaar just the original name for a GWP? Arent they the same thing?

[adam.WI]

Great looking pup. Looks like your having a great time. Question though. Isn't Deutsch-Drahthaar just the original name for a GWP? Arent they the same thing?

check the first two pages

[Machias]

What a great looking pup.

[PacificNWhunter]

That's awesome, thanks for the updates. Looks like the urge to hunt is strong in that one!

[Lee Root]

Dharma at six months.

[Lee Root]

Another one of her.



I took about 40 pictures of her tonight and these were a couple where she was actually still...

I had her do about a 150 meter blood track a few weeks ago when I was getting her mother ready for her VGP and Dharma ran it to its end with her nose in the dirt the whole way.

It was cool! Lee

[Lee Root]

Pointing quail outside the fence. 

[NW-GSP]

that is awesome, how did you get her started blood tracking?

[Lee Root]

When she was first on real puppy chow, I would let all of the pups track a gravy trail to their food.  I had the whole litter tracking this slurpy trail of puppy gruel to the big bowl of food.  Some were quick about it and others learned that if they did the track slow there were morsels on the way.  When I put her on a blood track she was on a long lead and was pulling me just like she is supposed to do.

I heard recently from her father's owner that he and another guy tracked and found a archery killed elk (a nice bull at that!) 18 hours after it was shot.  This was in Idaho and the guys had their dogs on long leads or tracking leads. (33 feet long is the requirement for our tests.)  He told me that Dharma's father, Tank, was licking the blood on the track. 

Makes sense to allow dogs to be used to recover lost game.  Many DD owners do it in many states, as do other breeds of dogs. 

[RC3]

A very nice looking pup!

[Sportfury]

I love the second to the last picture. She has that look "I'm not pooped out yet I am just getting started." The last pic reminds me of my girl Sofie. Her ears are always flipped up like that becuase she is always in motion.

[NW-GSP]

I think I might try teaching my gsp to blood track, shouldnt be too hard I guess. I have a friend save a deer hide and some blood ( I already got my deer this year or I would have saved my own)

[3dvapor]

question, seriuosly looking into a dd, how much do they shed, ive been around shorthairs that shed pretty good.  i currently have a setter that i keep shaved short for hunting and i dont notice it,  im trying to convince the wife of a new pup.