2005 Litter Photo - Taken At 6 Weeks - Charcoal Puppy named 'Bear' - Click to Enlarge.

• How soon can we pick-up our puppy or have it delivered? We need between five and ten days to prepare a puppy for pickup or delivery. During that time the puppy may need its vaccinations, if not already done, and your puppy will be treated for parisitesand worms. As we have other livestock and are in the forest a period of treatment and isolation before pickup and or delivery is necessary
  
  
• Do GBSD like water? Yes, see this photo . A word of caution however. Introduce your puppy to a beach with shallow, warm water and play with your puppy at the waters edge. Allow your puppy to gradually enter the water at its own pace. Repeat these games for many days. Never, never force you puppy into the water. If you do, you will turn off your puppy's interest in water for ever. Some GBSD are more Weimaraner than Labs and Weimaraners are not as naturally attracted to water as are labs. Be very patient with your puppy.
  
  
• How important is 'socializing' my puppy? Very. By 18 weeks, or there-a bouts, your puppy must see your world of family, friends, driving in the car, traffic passing by, people passing by on the side walk in front of your home, shopping etc., as normal occurrences. These dogs are not as outgoing as Labs. Its important that having visitors to your home is established as part of their routine before they are very old. Some say the critical time to be introduced to your life style is up to twenty five weeks and after that its very hard to socialize your puppy. I say do it much sooner. If not socialized, your puppy will see visitors to your home as a disturbance. Instead of wagging his or her tail, your puppy will bark and seem to be very shy when visitors come calling. If exposed to visitors to your home while it is a puppy, your dog will have learned to accept visitors as normal and welcome them. It will help if visitors are encouraged to handle your puppy a little by petting and offering your puppy a treat. Every visitor welcomed into your home should be asked to offer your puppy a small treat.
  
  What is the ratio of Weimaraner to Lab, in your puppies? All I can say is that there is more Weimaraner than Lab in Weim / Labs and more Lab in Lab / Weim mixes. All are GBSD. Read this explanation: What's A GBSD?
  
  
• Do the puppies have any health problems? - Weimaraner puppies occasionally have a treatable, immature immune disorder triggered by vaccination or other environmental agents called Hyper-Inflammatory Disease. It is a serious condition if not treated but it is very easy to treat when identified. Immune reactions occur most often after puppy vaccinations and can be treated successful Once treated, the disorders symptoms will disappear in twenty four hours with inexpensive medications. Our vet has a policy of treating such a reaction to vaccinations without charge. Yours may too. This condition can also start spontaneously in puppies up to one year of age. We have not experienced any other recurring health problems. Learn more about this subject. Hyper-Inflammatory Disease & HOD - Weimaraner Club Of America. See our Medical History page.
  
  
• Why does the price change from time to time? Puppies have a certain value up to about 16 weeks old. After that the demand for puppies falls off dramatically. We lower the price of our older puppies until they sell. Most often you will find price reductions on pure Weimaraners and Lab / Weimaraner crosses, not Weim / Lab crosses, as they seem to be in higher demand.
  
  
• Why do you breed pure Weimaraners? Our GBSD breeding program requires Weimaraners to. We breed pure Weims to select one or two puppies for breeding and we sell the rest. While they are not registered, our Weims are healthy and strong. We do not remove due claws or crop tails. We often purchase Weims from the open market as well as we need unrelated dogs for our breeding program.
  
  
• What Warranty is offered? Will replace any puppy found to be infirm or incurable within 60 days of purchase. Warranty terms are described in our purchase contract. A vet's letter explaining the problem is required. See our Warranty  page.
  
  
• Can we breed the dogs? Sorry, no. The purchase contract has a 'No Breeding" clause.
  
  
• Are the dogs good with kids? Yes, incredibly so. Special Needs Dog. Other photos.
  
  
• Can you ship us a puppy? Yes, to most major cities in Canada and the US. We have shipped a puppy as far as Edmonton Alberta. All went well and the cost of the flight was $200.00. Se our Shipping page.
  
  
• Weimaraners can be protective. What about your dogs? What about your dogs? We keep in touch with many owners of our GBSD, on a regular basis. We have never heard of or witnessed aggressive behaviour in our dogs other than what is described below. Our dogs are part Lab. This curbs some of the Weimaraner's hyper activity. They are alert, very sensitive to change but not protective without cause, at least in ordinary circumstances. The dogs are very sensitive to changes and act as perfect sentinels, warning you of unusual approaches or intrusions to their space and yours. However, recently we experienced something that we did not appreciate before about Weims and GBSD. Our Weimaraner and Weim / Lab GBSD, on two separate occasions, protected me from what they thought was an aggressive dog. The aggressive dog was in fact one of my newly purchased Weims who played by growling and prancing with a stick in its mouth, inviting me to play. It sounded very aggressive. Chief, my mature, but smallest Weim became alarmed and attracted the younger, heavier dog. A week later, Penny did the same. In both cases, Duke, the new Weim, cowered, became submissive and was not hurt. We learned that a normally friendly and well behaved Weim or GBSD, depending on the strength of its basic character, will move to protect you against aggression. We knew from first hand experience that they instinctively treated bears as aggressors, even when they were not. So, we have come to the conclusion that a Weim is a good companion to have in a park at night. It stands to reason that a dog so capable of developing a strong bond with you will also protect you.
  
  
• Weimaraners are known for their high energy and hyperness. What about your dogs? True. We describe them as 'High energy companions for active families'. That said, our cross puppies are not as hyper as our Weimaraners, but close!
  
  
• Do they need exercise? Yep! Every day. Don't buy one if you are a couch potato. The best activities for your dog are to accompany you on walks where they can be off leash, jogging, biking or roller blading, on a regular basis. At least, they need access to an off lease park or they need an opportunity to run off lease in open spaces.
  
  

• Are they a good apartment dog? I once lived in Scarborough in an apartment and I had a German Short Haired Pointer (GSP). The Kilometre long Bridletowne Park was nearby. My GSP, Gunner, could run 'off leash' there and get the exercise she needed. GSP are cousins of the Weim and have as much or more energy. The size of the apartment is not an issue. 600 sq ft or 2400 ft. won't make much difference to the dog. What you need is an area where you can let your dog run off leash. You may be able to run a mile in five or six minutes. A GBSD can run a mile in about one minute. If you walk your dog 'off leash' for a mile, the dog will run six miles but in circles around you. That's the kind of exercise they need. They need that three or four times per week for a half hour or an hour and they need a daily walk or jog outside every day for a few minutes at least. If you can do that, you can have any dog in an apartment. The nice thing about GBSD that is different from a GSP and most other dogs, is that they will not run off when you let them off the leash. And, like a GSP, you can wash the dog down in your tub or shower with a hand sprayer and towel it nearly dry in five to ten minutes. You can't do that as efficiently with a Lab or a Golden Retriever.
  
  

• Do your dogs run away? No, at least they will not run away like a lab or a GSH pointer and stay away for two hours or more. Weimaraners have been specially bred to want to be with you, not away from you. I often hike in the La Cloche mountains of Killarney, with my dogs. Sometimes with three dogs at one time. I never take a leash. The dogs don't run away. "The Pointer hunts because birds are the most important thing in its life; the Weimaraner hunts because hunting is the most wonderful activity that can be shared with the people it loves."
  
  
• Do your dogs like water? Yes but they don't take to the water as naturally as a Lab. They do have webbed feet and water training must be conducted as a ball retrieving game at the waters edge over many days in very shallow water like at a beach. They soon find themselves wading then swimming, but only if they are introduced to this on a naturally occurring and gradual basis. Force them or trick them once and you may have a dog that avoids the water forever. I have a video clip of Molly and Charlie at the waters edge for the first time. See Water Video Clip
  
  

  2005 Litter Photo - Taken At 6 Weeks - Puppy named 'Polly'. Polly produces brown and tan puppies, is small but very strong and a wonderful sled dog. - Click to Enlarge.

  Are they good retrievers? Yes, the best! They all seem to have very strong retrieving instincts. Annie seemed to be the exception. She wouldn't fetch a ball. One day I took her hunting partridge. I shot one, told Annie to get it, she did and immediately and laid the bird at my feet using a soft mouth pickup. Go figure! She has been my bird dog ever since.
  
  
• Can you hunt with these dogs. Yes. Chief and I hunt deer together with my camera, all year around! I have trained him to walk quietly beside me when stocking our prey, summer and winter. Not many hunters can imagine taking a dog into the bush with the purpose of sneaking up on a deer but it works with Chief. We have surprised a number but I am still waiting to get a good photograph. I think I had better get him used to sitting in a blind so when the deer comes by, we have more time to set up a good picture. Chief will not chase the deer, as much as he might like to, as he has learned to obey me. I believe that Weimaraners are better field dogs and trackers than good duck dogs but I have not tried duck hunting with them. I could be wrong about this.
  
  
• Why did you cross the dogs? I needed a dog team. My half Lab / Weim dogs liked to wander into town. I was fined many times. I knew that Weimaraners didn't wander. I new that they had short coats like my German Short Haired Pointer and would not stand for the cold. I re-mixed Weimaraner and Lab genes into my dogs. I crossed and re-crossed dogs, adding and removing Lab and Weimaraners traits. After crossing the dogs, some had longer coats and some had shorter coats and most did not wander. We offered the shorter coated dogs for sale and still do. I now have a strong dog team of Weimaraner Labs that don't wander and have longer coats. The demand for the puppies allowed me to expand the breeding program.
  
  
• Do your dogs shed? Yes they do. Even the shorter haired puppies will have a heavier winter coat, longer than a Weimaraner coat. The over hair falls out starting in the early spring and sheds into mid to late summer. You cannot brush it out as the hair is too sort. But there are two ways to get rid of the winter coat. 1. Allow your dog to run with you in the bush for a few days. 2. Buy a horse like curry comb with tiny metal teeth. They will grab overcoat hair and remove it quickly. Shedding is the price we pay for the winter coat needed by the dogs to accompany you outdoors in the winter.
  
  
• Weimaraners suffer from separation anxiety. What about your pups? Yes they do but the problem is not as great, especially if you crate train them from day one. I left chief in my car one day and returned to witness him eating my seats. He had already totaled my visors and head liner. After two years, Chief finally stopped eating my furniture every time I left him alone. Like all good Weimaraner anxiety stories, Chief too did more two or three times the damage than he actually cost to purchase. The pups are not as bad. They will chew though and they will chew anything they can get into their mouths. The problem goes at about one year. Crate train your puppy from day one. When you leave your home, make sure the puppy is sufficiently exposed to its crate, it accepts it as part of the deal and goes to sleep. I have a crate training plan I will discuss with you any time you care to hear about it. Its not unusual so if you know about crate training, I doubt that my story will teach you anything.
  
  
• Are the puppies smart? Dog owners in the north have a saying that goes like this. 'The dog is as smart as its owner!' Its a subtle way of criticizing an owner for neglecting his or her dog. Yes the dogs are as sharp as tacks. You can train them do just about anything is a few minutes but you have to know what you are doing. If you take the time, are patient and gentle and apply basic common sense in your attempts to train your dog, you will be rewarded quickly. Get your self a good book on training field dogs. The techniques you learn for field training can also be applied to teaching your puppy any trick you can imagine. If you don't apply your self and give your dog the time it needs, your dog will not bloom.
  
  
• When can I visit my puppy? Any time after six weeks by appointment. Bring some soap in a bottle, a towel and some wipes. Oh, don't forget your camera.
  
  How do we get to Killarney? Here are instructions.
  
  
• What if we cannot pick up our puppy at seven weeks or eight weeks when it is weaned? No problem. You have to pay for the puppy when it is weaned. I will keep the puppy for a week or two until you can arrange to get here. However, be aware that the puppies character and attitude towards you, your family and the world at large is developed between eight weeks and fifteen weeks. You cannot afford to not pick up your puppy within a week or so from the time it is weaned.
  
  
• What is a 'Silver Lab'? A silver lab is not recognized by the AKC however I believe that they are aware of their existence. The silver colour is not officially recognized and they call it a variation of chocolate. There is no Weimaraner in what some breeders call 'Silver Labs'. It seems that these dogs are all labs showing a recessive gene. More info here: http://www.labbies.com/silver.htm
  
  
• "The Pointer hunts because birds are the most important thing in its life; the Weimaraner hunts because hunting is the most wonderful activity that can be shared with the people it loves."
  
  
• Are your GBSD or Weims registered? No, they are not. The only people who know or care about GBSD are us and our customers. Our Weims are not registered. We do not crop Weim tails either.

  "The Pointer hunts because birds are the most important thing in its life; the Weimaraner hunts because hunting is the most wonderful activity that can be shared with the people it loves."
  

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A Photo History of "The Best Of Our Photos".

| 08-03-09 Taz | 08-01-30 Annie | New Year's Day 2008 | Zoe-07 | Sandy-06 | Storm-07 | Duke-07 | Oscar-06 | Scout-06 | 07-06-24-Penny | 07-06-18-Penny | 07-05-07-Annie | 07-4-23-Annie | 04-05-Annie | 07-04-02-Penny | 07-05-16-Penny- | 2007-Owners | 06-Owners | 06-04-Annie | 06-Molly | 06-Penny + Adults | 06-Polly | 06-10-Annie | 06-10-03-Annie | 06-10-04-Polly | 06-10-21 Polly | 06-11-02-Polly | 06-11-07-Polly | 06-11-11-Polly | 06-11-21-Polly | 06-Oscar | 06-Sadie | Adults-05 | 05-Pups | 04-Wolf | 04-Charley |

"Pointers, hounds and retrievers will run off to hunt because hunting is the most important thing in their lives; the Weimaraner stays with you when off leash because playing with you is the most wonderful activity it can share with the people it loves."