7-20 SS Tommy Short Hair

7-20 SS Tommy Short Hair

 How do you pick out the perfect hunting dog? Complicated process, but I have some thoughts from an expert.

 Our longtime correspondent Tommy Allen was brought up in a hunting family and learned his craft very well. Loving bird hunting as he does, getting a good bird dog must be of paramount importance to him. He has an intriguing way of choosing a dog. Listen up: “They say when you pick out a dog, look for a puppy with longer ears and a deeper chest, I don’t know if that is true or just a wife’s tail but they say the genetics go further back to the hound in Germany in the 1600s. I picked up a German short haired pointer, it’s a Northwest dog, and the parents one some field trial competitions, so I knew it’s breeding had good foundations. When I looked at the letter there were quite a few puppies all of them very rambunctious playing back and forth and I took a pheasant wing that I had frozen from the year before and you can stick that on the end of a fishing pole on a line and dangle it around and you can  watch which dog will have more instinct to the scent and also holding a point, even when they are little puppies and I picked my dog up a little bit older from the group but that is a good way to judge which dogs have the hunter and killer instinct and which ones are more passive just by playing with that little  pheasant wing. I picked a dog in the middle. There was one that was very aggressive which would’ve made a good hunter but maybe not the best  house dog and maybe he wouldn’t have made the wife too happy. These German short hairs are high-powered.

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