Lots of tradition here, though the orange hunting vests are an American invention.
They use jagdterriers to drive the game, and when a red deer is shot, a long-haired weimaraner with a somewhat sharper edge than most American gun dogs is used to track it down.
Neat. I love the long haired Weims. I find it interesting how the European pointers/setters diverged along coat type lines. It seems to me that they were originally a land race of gun dogs, as they all have very similar body shapes & temperaments, & so many come in at least two of the coat types, smooth, long, & wire. Irish Setters have probably diverged the most, but Irish Red & Whites almost look just like red & white Munsterlanders, & a long haired Weim looks like a silver colored Setter. Kind of like how the landrace retrieving dogs split up by color & coat type into Labs, Goldens, & Flatcoats. Any thoughts on this?
Weimaraners started out as big game hounds. They were then crossed with the other German pointer-type dogs to make them as they are. The history of these dogs is more complex than that of the retrievers, and there are also some bizarre politics involved. For example. the Slovakian rough-haired pointer is actually a wire-haired weimaraner, but it never was accepted as a type of weimaraner, and the large Munsterlanders are actually just black and white German long-hairs, probably the result of crossing the latter with Gordon or English setters.
The really interesting one is the pudelpointer, which started out as a cross between the English pointer and the standard poodle (of a hunting strain). They were able to breed wire-haired dogs out that mix, as strange as it sounds. The German wirehair, which exists in two distinct global registries, is actually partially derived from the pudelpointer.
The oldest of them all is said to be the broken-haired pointer or the Stichelhaar, which is slightly wiry coated. It’s not a cross between a short-hair and wirehair.
Neat. I love the long haired Weims. I find it interesting how the European pointers/setters diverged along coat type lines. It seems to me that they were originally a land race of gun dogs, as they all have very similar body shapes & temperaments, & so many come in at least two of the coat types, smooth, long, & wire. Irish Setters have probably diverged the most, but Irish Red & Whites almost look just like red & white Munsterlanders, & a long haired Weim looks like a silver colored Setter. Kind of like how the landrace retrieving dogs split up by color & coat type into Labs, Goldens, & Flatcoats. Any thoughts on this?
Weimaraners started out as big game hounds. They were then crossed with the other German pointer-type dogs to make them as they are. The history of these dogs is more complex than that of the retrievers, and there are also some bizarre politics involved. For example. the Slovakian rough-haired pointer is actually a wire-haired weimaraner, but it never was accepted as a type of weimaraner, and the large Munsterlanders are actually just black and white German long-hairs, probably the result of crossing the latter with Gordon or English setters.
The really interesting one is the pudelpointer, which started out as a cross between the English pointer and the standard poodle (of a hunting strain). They were able to breed wire-haired dogs out that mix, as strange as it sounds. The German wirehair, which exists in two distinct global registries, is actually partially derived from the pudelpointer.
The oldest of them all is said to be the broken-haired pointer or the Stichelhaar, which is slightly wiry coated. It’s not a cross between a short-hair and wirehair.
It’s really complex.
Now that’s just what I was talking about–and I love the look of that rough-coated Weim.