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here is my buddy's Griffon after a long day of bird hunting

Stellar pics, people.

Still going with the Yella, apparently there�s even literature about them. H-bomb from last Saturday.

I grew up with labs, this one in particular was a great dog!

This one is the companion of one of my good friends, and a great dog in the tall stuff ( we were hunting in 6'weeds that day)

However, after working with a bunch of pointers, my son decided he wanted a GSP.
In the tall stuff , the key is to get a dog that will work a bit closer than the big ranging trial dogs.
A bell helps as well.
I'm still not convinced completely myself ( I was hoping he'd get a lab), but the waterfowl hunting my son does is in fields, not on the water in the cold weather we get up here in Canada
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Labs are cool and the cover obviously is also. Looks like the promised land.

Just noticed this thread on "Best Hunting Dogs" and had to chuckle to myself. I have spent many years around hunting dogs and was blessed to have some good ones along the way. With this said, I have always noticed most folks "Best Hunting Dog" is always after it has died.

Ingwedog is still alive, though getting too old to hunt now......

The deal with her is that I fortunately realized she was the "one" when she was barely a year old....

Ingwe

Pastor,

That my friend is a gorgeous yellow! Nice and fit, not fat like labs like to get. He is a handsome boy!

Pass the popcorn. Brandy is resting through this!

Well, not ALWAYS!LOL
Allie ( the lab in the pic with me) is still very much alive and well, as is this scalliwag , Tramp the Griffon (aka the village idiot)!he's a great dog and will go all day on wild birds.
Great pal to Hornhead....

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ThankYa. His pics been posted more than a FEW times(yawn...).

Got a couch one also, from New Years day.

Northcoutry...we have her hair cut in Aug every year when it get hot here. It also helps with burrs/briars etc. while in the field hunting. 80% is I am tired of combing the burrs out of her hair, 20% is relief from the heat for her. Her hair is normally 3" long and she doesn't shed.

She weighs exactly 48lbs. I have seen different Griffs from different bloodlines and they can have a broad range of looks. Belle's mother was s 100% French import, so she has longer, more curly hair and smaller frame, indicitive of the French bloodlines. I have never owned a GWP, but it seems the GWP have longer legs and longer bodies (nose to tail) too.

There are lots of similarities in looks between the WPG, GWP and Drahthaar. We were very close to getting a Drahthaar.

Great dogs,ya'll! Sure makes me wish I had pictures of my 'ol coondogs from years gone by. There's a special bond with dogs you hunt with.

This one - becuz he is mine.LOL
107#'s worth of Yella.

Vizsla

Here is my first lab Belle. Got her out of Louisiana.

She passed away this last december and it was hard. She would have been 13 years old this month. She retrieved my first duck i ever shot as well as my first and only duck this season. I still miss her every day but i know she is up above retrieving ducks for my uncle who passed away when i was 4. But I got this little ball of fire last July. His name is Jaeger and he will be a year old the first week of may.


Smartest dog i have ever seen. Learned "sit" in literally 10 mins as well shake. He even knows how to shake with his left or right paw when told which one to use. Every time i give him a treat, he about gives me a black eye trying to shake! He retrieved his first duck when he was 4 months old! Still have alot of work to do with him this summer but he is going to be a great dog! Ill try to get some better pictures of him tomorrow when we go exploring in the mountains!

Sorry for your loss - buddy of mine is going through that right now as we speak.I hate to be him.My Yella is only 5 .I told him the first thing he needs to do is go get a pup.Thats a nice one you have there.Good looking pup.

Deertracker - thats a pretty good jump from Louisiana to Montana - do you mind me asking how much you paid for the yella..I'm not that far from Louisiana - just curious ??

I dont know how much the one from Louisiana was. My godfather got her for me for my 10th birthday and brought her up when he came to visit us. He lives in Sulphur, LA. I paid $300 for Jaeger but i talked the seller down from $350. Probably could have got him for less since he was the last one and they were about to leave for a week on a trip. Oh well. I was really glad i had him when Belle passed away. He could tell i was upset and he crawled up on the couch with me and licked a few tears away. Sure made the process easier with him to keep me occupied.

Thats good to hear - 350.00 for a lab with papers is unheard of where I am at.Lot of good bloodlines come out of LA - thats why I was curious what you paid,Keep in touch on his progress.I train them on the side- not professionally - but just for hunting dogs.if you want you can see my latest and greatest on at 107 lbs..I kid you not - the vet say he needs to lose weight -I say he looks good and runs good just like he is. Feel to see him at my personal website -

http://mysite.verizon.net/respvhvl