Post by: wolftrapper on November 23, 2014, 06:08:20 AM
My GSP suddenly has too much arthritis to hunt this season, so I will be in the market for a puppy this coming spring. I am looking for a Weimaraner as my first choice, but I realize that it will be more difficult to find a good Weim, than a good GSP. I have owned both, and each breed had it's strong points. The Weim was the best retrieving dog I have ever seen, but his pointing instinct wasn't as strong as the GSP. I guess my biggest problem with the GSP is he was so hyper. The Weim was a much calmer dog, and both were awesome hunting dogs.
So, I guess I'm looking for a Weim with strong pointing instinct, or a GSP with some self control! (Don't know if there is such an animal).
Any Weim breeders out there?
Post by: AspenBud on November 23, 2014, 07:52:47 AM
That said, there are some breeders trying to bring them back as proper hunting dogs. These folks are out of state but breed nice dogs...
http://www.timberdoodleweims.net/ (http://www.timberdoodleweims.net/)
Post by: JayBird02 on November 24, 2014, 12:25:57 AM
Post by: wolftrapper on November 25, 2014, 05:38:17 AM
Yeah, I think my former Weim was the exception....for any breed. He came out of Nebraska. A fellow there had a breeding program where he picked up field trial drop out Weims. His goal was a larger, stronger dog, that could bull through heavy cover all day, but not go over the horizon. The fellow has since passed away, and his breeding program with him.
Few people can appreciate it when I tell them about my dog's retrieving ability. He lived to be twelve, and had hundreds of pheasant retrieves. He only failed to find TWO pheasants, in his life! One crawled into a beaver house, and I dragged Buck out by his tail, as he tried to dig his way in (his tail was all I could see). The other was a bird that dropped dead in heavy cover, with a dozen other birds flushing all around. I believe that was his first year.
He was very methodical about finding a bird. If he didn't find it outright, he would start circling the area, in ever expanding rings, until he picked up the trail, and after a time, I never doubted him. One retrieve in particular that I recall: I had dropped a rooster that had gone onto private land, it was wing-tipped, and it was raining. I t took him twenty minutes, but he recovered that bird. He was a hound on a trail.
Post by: AspenBud on November 25, 2014, 07:59:59 AM
Post by: constructeur on December 01, 2014, 08:44:16 PM
With that said, I'm a NAVHDA member and have been able to plant some birds for some nice Weims in the last few tests. There's a couple of ladies breeding dogs under the name Regen Weimeraners, one of them living in Ephrata, one in Snohomish. That would be my first pick if I were in the market.
http://www.regen-weimaraners.com/ (http://www.regen-weimaraners.com/)
Post by: L-ofalab on December 02, 2014, 04:27:23 AM
Post by: Torrent50 on December 03, 2014, 07:51:36 AM
Post by: JayBird02 on December 03, 2014, 10:26:16 AM
I will second the reply to look up Leslie Like. She definitely values the hunting aspect of the breed.Just be careful Jim might try to sell you on a Brittany instead haha.