A German Pointer thread.

Garp · 03-22-2010, 12:58 AM

I saw a few comments on GSP's in another thread so I thought I might I just start a dedicated GSP (wirehaired also welcome) thread.
We got our puppy early December. Fien is now just 5 months old. An absolute handful but what a joy. I'm very keen to hear some tips from other owners.

10 weeks

3 months

Garp · 03-22-2010, 01:05 AM

Here she is at 5 months. The vet told us yesterday that she will become very tall for a *****. Between 80 and 70 pounds, I personally don't think so but time will tell.

Geronimo '74 · 03-22-2010, 01:20 AM

Great Pics Garp,

I especially like the second and the third one. (sorry, I can't give you any "pointers",

)

(Damn, I wish I had time for a dog)

Garp · 03-22-2010, 01:35 AM

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Great Pics Garp,

Bedankt.

PS: still undecided for the Fuchs

I'm worse than a woman.

tops911 · 03-22-2010, 01:53 AM

here is my Ursula a Deutsch Drahthaar (German Wirehair Pointer). She's loads of fun and too smart. gosh I miss her, I have my Mom and brother watching her while I'm deployed.

Geronimo '74 · 03-22-2010, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Garp

Bedankt.

PS: still undecided for the Fuchs

I'm worse than a woman.

If you take too long, somebody will decide for you....
Whichever set you chose, you can't go wrong.

targa911S · 03-22-2010, 04:05 AM

my buddies german wire haired pointing griffon

Victor..

emcon5 · emcon5's Garage

This was Luke.

Took the photo the day I had to put him down. He was 13 and had some senility/dementia issues going on, he was starting to get unpredictable and aggressive. We got him from Shorthair rescue at 6 months.

He was really a hooligan:

We had to add an additional child-proof lock to the cabinet where the trash can lives because he figured out how to defeat the single one by sticking his paw in and pushing it down.

We also had to change all the door knobs from the handle type to the knob type, as he knew how to open them (and knew which side to push and which side to pull). He also figured out that if he pulled food off the kitchen counter or table we would hear it hit the floor and come take it away from him, so later when he got the chance he would pick up the pan/plate/bowl and gently set it on the floor (he moved a full bowl of cereal, with milk from the counter to the floor without spilling a drop).

He had a fetish for paper towels, and would steal the napkin off your lap to tear it to small bits and eat it. He was a particular fan of toilet paper rolls, and has pulled the cardboard tube off the holder in the bathroom, and left the toilet paper still hanging coiled around the spindle.

Of course he was a poop eater, sometimes scarfing it while it is still hanging out of the other dog's butt like some sort of nasty custard machine.

Here he is pointing a chicken someone brought to the vet:

He would have stayed there all day if I would have let him.

He had a very strong prey drive, and was unbelievably birdy, but due to abuse before he came to us was afraid of loud noises, and would immediately come to heel if there was any shooting going on anywhere nearby. Someone could have broken him of his gunshyness, but I don't think it was me, and the consequences of screwing it up would have been pretty severe, he could easily have become a neurotic mess, and that wouldn't have been fair to him.

Really too bad, I bet he would have been an outstanding hunting dog.

He was a menace to society, but I sure do miss him.

dipso · 03-23-2010, 07:52 PM

Here's Chopper. About 95 pounds worth.

He does stand up once in a while.

Garp · 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by tops911

here is my Ursula a Deutsch Drahthaar (German Wirehair Pointer). She's loads of fun and too smart. gosh I miss her, I have my Mom and brother watching her while I'm deployed.

Great looking dog, the coming home will be good.

Garp · 03-23-2010, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by emcon5

He had a fetish for paper towels, and would steal the napkin off your lap to tear it to small bits and eat it. He was a particular fan of toilet paper rolls, and has pulled the cardboard tube off the holder in the bathroom, and left the toilet paper still hanging coiled around the spindle.

Of course he was a poop eater, sometimes scarfing it while it is still hanging out of the other dog's butt like some sort of nasty custard machine.

Great story about Luke. I read it out loud at the breakfast table, the whole family was screaming.

The poop eater part is pretty gross but it could happen to ours too, she didn't have the opportunity just yet. Her order of preference is fresh cat poop, than comes horse dung and finally all the other critters poop.
Just a couple of days ago she swallowed a toad (mating season for toads around here), since then we have caught her moving around toads every single day.

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Originally Posted by dipso

Here's Chopper. About 95 pounds worth.

OMG, that's a big dog. Mighty fine looking animal.

Geronimo '74 · 03-23-2010, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by tops911

here is my Ursula a Deutsch Drahthaar (German Wirehair Pointer). She's loads of fun and too smart. gosh I miss her, I have my Mom and brother watching her while I'm deployed.

Those eyebrows, that moustache and beard... They give the dog human like features!
I love it, very nice looking dog!!

tops911 · 03-24-2010, 03:15 AM

Garp & Geronamo, thanks for the compliments. The home comings are always a blast to watch her reaction. She gets so excited and vocal. this is my 3rd deployment; the hardest is when I come home for leave, leaving her then is hard. She is a good hunter and a blast to fish with. I have to be fast, she learned what setting the hook means and she come in as fast as I can reel in. That and she wants to swim out to where you cast.... Oh and the time she brought me some rotted carp......

here is a picture after a day of hard hunting. as you can see she thinks she is a lap dog, we both were tired.

ODDJOB UNO · ODDJOB UNO's Garage

and you thought your dog was RETARDED!

i present to you THE KING OF RETARDS: mr. SNUGGLES.

my buddy owned a weiner dog eating(i kid you not) wolf hybrid. one day said wolf splits and IMPREGNATES an AKC german weimereiner with bloodlines down yer arm and leg.

my buddy is threatened with a LAWSUIT(statutory dawgie rape) and is presented upon gestation (9) puppies. my older son happens to be there and is conned into taking one. it ends up at my house due to a host of reasons. i become his surrogate father. i am a labrador person. and this freeking RETARD has now become one of the family and sleeps on his pillow in my bedroom now despite doing everything on the planet to PISS ME OFF TO NO END including pissing on my very nice and spendy FUCHS wheels!

berettafan · 03-24-2010, 05:55 AM

OJ that is too funny!

Curse my allergies! We've looked at everything from labs to WPG's to std poodles and there is just no way i can have a bird fetching buddy in my house without permanently carrying an inhaler.

willtel · 03-24-2010, 06:24 AM

I have two.

tops911 · 03-24-2010, 07:41 AM

i love the pictures of all the dogs. you can see their personality's in every picture. they all are great dogs.

badcar · badcar's Garage

This Berit in 2005...she is now 78lbs and has not lost one ounce of energy. She is great with my 3 year old and protects my 5mos daughter like one of her own. I got her to be a companion to my GS/Spaniel mix who is now 16 years old.

Garp · 07-18-2010, 10:51 PM

Some more....

Garp · 03-21-2011, 12:53 PM

Last week in the French Alps. She loved it.