Not many Pudelpointers around. I wonder if it's the same one I'm training. If it is, I love the dog. Very smart, good nose, obedient, good marker and loves to work. Think I'd take it over a Drathaar.

Not many Pudelpointers around. I wonder if it's the same one I'm training. If it is, I love the dog. Very smart, good nose, obedient, good marker and loves to work. Think I'd take it over a Drathaar.

kbobbjr, Do you know where the pudelpointer came from? There are not many around. I have one that just turned a year old and it has really opened my eyes. You may be training a litter mate to my dog. I know there were two out of the liter that came to Texas. Full brothers to the dog Texasphez owns.

Well shoot, thanks Bobby for trying.

That was a 285 yard blind/shed hunt, not bad for a pup.

Need to figure out how to video I guess.

I have raised and hunted black labs most of my life, got a gun cabinet full of ribbons and silver platter trophies from last lab that was a Derby dog.
My Pudelpointer pup just turned 1 years old and I can honestly say she is the smartest dog that I have ever owned. Totally a different breed in attitude, trainability, natural instincts, versatile abilities, tracking, pointing, retrieving and a nose that has blow me away. She loves the water and I believe she could have out swam them all, can't keep her out of the water when we go fishing. Faults! She has eaten 3 tv remotes!!!!

This one is going to be a fun one, to train me up.

Here's a few picture of Judee my Pudelpointer.

BradyBuck,

I have been training her just like a lab for the most part.

These dogs naturally use their nose and always hunt into or across the wind. I didn't teach that.

She does not need half the pressure as a lab does and she gets butt hurt awful easy.

Obedience is just the same as any dog, except without teaching her to sit. I just taught her whoa in place of sit. She delivers to hand and will spin around to heal just like a lab on delivery of a bird and stands without setting. Whoa also means stay. If I say whoa, she won't move till I call her name. (to flush).

Tracking, I didn't teach that. She naturally hunts the wind. I would just drag a dead duck with a rope, then go back to the truck and get her out, say heal, walk to the scent trail, call her name and she did the rest from day one. Tracking is as natural for them, just the same as a lab is and will go get a tennis ball all day long. She just hunts with her nose. Mind blowing to me, 300 + yards blind shed hunts and scent trails at 6 month old.

Force fetch, just like a lab, without all the pressure.

Retrieving, train just like a lab, biggest difference is she gets bored if I just throw a bumper. Truly doesn't like them at all. Birds, live or dead, she goes nuts.

Shed hunting, started her at 8 weeks with a shed as a chew toy in the house. Made it a game, always asking her "where is your bone", we would walk around the house until she found it. As she got older, just say the word and she is looking for it. So In the field I make her heal, then ask her to find the bone, call her name and she hunts the wind.

Pointing, didn't teach that. I don't understand how she understands it's live birds vs a dead bird that I have laid a scent trail to. She has found and pointed a wild covey of
quail, hope to have her into more birds this fall. She points rabbits in the neighborhood just like if you were quail hunting. (I found out in Germany it is common to hunt rabbits just like quail, dog goes on point, hunter flushes and shoots.) I didn't teach that.

Squirrels, crazy damn dog trails to the tree and points the base of the tree, I didn't teach that.

She is teaching me mostly, I just give her the opportunity.

Well that's the short side of it and truth be know Judee is my wife's dog, she absolutely melts around my wife.