German Wire Hair Pointer

Open Season: Easy come, even easier go

Bobbing across the white-capped waves, I was amazed at its lifelike realism. Had I known better, I’d of sworn a dead mallard drake was floating belly-up across the flooded field.

But the gaping hole in my wallet and the growing migraine in my temples made it painfully clear that I did, in fact, know better. I knew $30 better, in fact, as I watched the brand-spanking-new Dokken’s DeadFowl training dummy silently inch further and further away from me. An “innovating training tool” ($25, plus tax) with an added “Power Throw Grip” (another $3, plus tax), that only moments earlier had been proudly retrieved to hand by my nearly one-year-old German wirehaired pointer, Remy.

A dummy that now was rapidly fading from eyesight as it torpedoed, unabated, across the waves, propelled by a 30-knot south wind.

I cursed the wind. I cursed my dumb self for throwing it just a little bit further than the last time. I cursed the dang geese that flew right over Remy’s noggin as he pulsed through the water, distracting him from the critical water-retrieval task at hand.

Those geese were an adventure in and of themselves. Blasting my training whistle like a New York City traffic cop jacked on espresso, Remy blatantly ignored my commands as he chased the noisy, obnoxious waterfowl with single-minded determination. Their effortlessness at dodging the pursuing pooch only seemed to egg him on as he struggled to fight the growing waves breaking across his face.

Finally, maybe out of boredom, the pair-bond took flight and Remy, without quarry to corner, was forced to return to his red-faced master on land.

In the meantime, the new training dummy, on its third toss of its short lifespan, was quickly making its way to the flooded minimum maintenance road to the north.

“Come, Remy!” I yelled. “Get the bird. Find the bird!”

He found the bird, alright. Two, in fact, as the pair of geese that only moments earlier had left now returned for a flyover inspection. I gave up on the dog for a minute, instead focusing my attention on Dokken’s DeadFowl.

Running full steam, I made it to the flooded road in time to see the foam duck replica slip over the road to the other side, thus beginning its maiden voyage across an entire section of floodwater.

I begged, I pleaded, I threw rocks into the water. Remy would have nothing to do with it as the geese, now on land, hissed and clucked at the annoying dog.

German Wirehaired Pointer dog

German Wirehaired pointer dog is great hunter, German Wirehaired pointer dog is fast and strong dog, German Wirehaired pointer dog is a  faithful dog and loves human companion.

Hunt called the very first exercise in the history of mankind, but it is not just a sport. In ancient times, when the ax, club and spear were the only weapons which man procured food for himself and his family, hunting was a way of life. In those days people used the traps and pitfalls, hawks and falcons, nets and snares, bows and arrows. Later, the princes, to know and large landowners began to hunt not only for the sake of production, but rather for fun, but the common people, this privilege is not extended. Nevertheless, in the middle of the XIX century, a series of political upheavals, along with the improvement of firearms and ammunition appearance spurred interest in hunting to such an extent that it includes everything, regardless of class. And when it became a popular hunting lifted on its wings, the number of hunters over udvoylos. It took more than dogs, and they started to breed. Slowly but surely, rock hounds began to specialize. Some dogs have worked in the woods and fields, looking for the hunter’s prey, while others learned how to hold the prey in the land and water, and over time, each breed has acquired a special skill and dexterity of its kind activity. To understand the origin of this breed, you need to remember that outside Germany there were many rocks podnosyaschih Pointer (retrievers), whose lines were crossed to a greater or lesser degree. In the first years of its existence the German club drathaarov included all wire-haired pointer breeds. Later it was divided into four subgroups, dealing with breed improvement drathaara, poodle-pointer, shtihelhaara (German coarse setter) and a griffin

German Wirehaired pointer dog has very thick undercoat, German Wirehaired pointer dog is an intelligent, energetic dog and a bold, tenacious hunter.

Most of the wire-haired pointer carried the blood of a griffin, shtihelhaara, poodle, and German short-haired pointer setter. Poodle Pointer is descended from a cross between a poodle males and females English pointer, but the creation of rocks and Griffin shtihelhaara participated Pointer, Foxhound, poodle-pointer and Polish water dog.

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