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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton
Never heard of a Pudelpointer until today. Were you specifically looking for one? Looks like a hoot!
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Long answer at how we arrived at this breed.
Being the only child my daughter filled the son role in amazing fashion. Hikes, rafts, long walking hunts deer blinds, you name it. She always wanted to duck hunt (pretty sure for the waders for some odd reason) but I never took her, mainly because duck hunting for me as a kid was miserable mainly because of the places we had to hunt were more work than fun with the heat, mosquitoes, and alligators. Finally took her to a friends place that was pretty easy hunting and he had his wire-haired griffon pointer along with another members aging lab. My daughter had only been exposed to city lap dogs at our house and a lab mix of some sort named Chloe that my wife and her surprise adopted years ago. Chloe was beautiful, big head, broad chest, amazing looking dog but someone had treated her very bad before we rescued her, she ended up being a great pet but man she had issues and she was never going to hunt, glad we saved her and had her as family but she was essentially a hundred pound lap dog. The girls knew that I was eventually going to have another hunting dog. After the duck hunt last year started I talking to my friend about his dog because she was great and my daughter could not stop talking about how cool it was to see a retriever work. Anyway, friend told me about NAVHDA, a group committed to versatile hunting dogs, good for both upland and waterfowl hunting. I fell in love with the pudelpointer once I went to a field trial spring of last year. Downhill after that, found a breeder and started the long wait.