Training GSD for hunting and retreiving waterfowl and game - Page 5

The German Shepherd's future is as a versatile dog that can serve a single individual, a family or a farm, a discerning animal that has a sharp mind and uses it to make the correct decision without human intervention.  Obedient but intelligent enough to make the correct decision after training and experience.  Some can become police or law enforcement dogs or some can be obedience, fly-ball or agility dogs depending on their size, strength and tool set.  Some GSD have brains, some are courageous fighters, some have brawn, some have speed, and some have all of these qualities and more but they all should be intelligent and discerning animals that are part of a family or team.  Whether it be as a herding dog, hunting dog, a baby sitter, guardian, companion, or as a sports dog or LE dog all GSD should be equally celebrated for their versatility and loyal service whatever that service may be.  All GSD should sit at one table under one tent because that is the future of the breed.  An expanding universe for the GSD as a breed and not a narrow minded view of what the GSD was, is and will become.

well off into another direction. Can "Courage'' be applied to a dog? Is Intelligence a measurable quality for success?  Watch the TV shows on prisons. Those inmates are smart as anybody. Their intellect is not channeled correctly to be useful to society. We should look for, trainability, nerve, strength, agility, stability, drive, among other qualities. All things one can observe in dog training/trialing. Why do they have bird dog competitions? It might be just to murder birds! 

bubba; go train a wolf to take stick hits, retrieve back to you what you want, track for you on command what you want to be trailed. Bubba go thank our dog breeding ancestors for the domesticated dog who although has the same genes as the wolf, is the LE , pet, herder ect you refer to in your latest rant.

Man you guys are full of shit.
 

time to lay off the glaucoma meds

You have Glaucoma?
 

I have a GSD bitch that loves rabbit hunting, squirrel hunting and tracking deer. She is obedience titled in AKC. We have played with agility equipment as well. Last week, she spent ten minutes searching for a rabbit that eluded us. Decided to call her off and finish our walk instead. Was hoping to try our hand at dock diving (humm kinda replicates duck hunting doesnt it). She learned her rabbit hunting from beagles that the neighbor used to have. Yes it is possible to train a GSD for this. I have also seen recent videos posted to FB of a Jack Russell terrier and a Chihuahua both doing IPO.

I have two Czech breeding litter mate sisters who weigh about 55 pounds each at two years.  They both love to hunt rabbits but they don't need me to shoot the rabbits for them.  Both catch the young and dumb ones in the spring and summer easily.  Both of these young females are very fast and agile so the rabbit needs his A game more than with a Beagle Hound because they can run him down and match him on many of his cutbacks and rabbit jukes.  They are like larger and stronger Border Collies in shape and speed.  These girls are little prey monsters and they will chase an Orbee Snowball as long as you want to throw it.  Really sweet good tempered dogs, really nice to be around and great family or house dogs as well.