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"GBSD Don't Run Away When Off Leash"
Some information on these pages may not apply to every litter. It’s important that you understand the unique qualities of the litter that you are considering. Our breeding program is evolving. We refine our GBSD every year. The formula changes a little every year. We have certain goals and getting there requires adjusting the mix in an attempt to achieve those goals. Our first and second generation GBSD produced many unusual colour mixes that were very popular. Third generation dogs were produced with more lab in the mix to stabilize coat length and add more strength to our dogs. We succeeded however many of the puppies came out black. Some are blond and some are gold. They are not labs by any stretch of the imagination. They are GBSD and have many of the right Weim characteristics. We will produce a fourth generation dog from these unrelated lines in the years to come. The Georgian Bay Sporting Dog (GBSD) is useful in our northern, colder climate. Among their special traits is a longer winter coat! They have been bred for our purposes as they can play with us outdoors as hiking, skiing, Skijoring. or as sled dogs, on most winter days. They are not a recognized breed and likely never will become one. Our customers, who mostly live in urban environments, use our dogs primarily as family pets, as a companions to their children and as outdoor adventure partners. They are especially suited to developing relationships with children We have been raising our puppies around our son from the time he was two till now, age six and in the presence of our special needs child too. Our dogs, like all Weimaraners and Labradors, are especially suited to bonding with children. We describe our dogs as Georgian Bay Sporting Dogs (GBSD). They are Weimaraners in many respects and have some moderating personality traits and body traits of Labrador Retrievers. Our dogs have had their colour, coat and temperament modified to suite our purposes. Their coats are slightly longer in summer and longer again in winter. They are perfect off leash walking, jogging and hiking companions (for both summer and winter). The Weimaraner is less likely to wander when unleashed and at large. They don't run away, preferring your company to that of being on their own or even being in the company of other dogs. We also use our dogs as recreational sled dogs, for skijoring across the open expanses of Georgian Bay and for hunting. We use them especially to protect our livestock (and our child) from the many bears that wander across our property. They are great sentinels.
While the GBSD they will alert you to strangers but they are not naturally aggressive. They would likely protect you if you were assaulted, as would many dogs. We have witnessed this. They will bark a lot and are natural sentinels and will respond to any unexpected visitors in or around your home. The only aggressive part of their nature we have observed has been directed at our visiting bears or any aggressiveness shown by other dogs. They are protective, brave and fearless. One of my mature male dogs will attack bears head on! GBSD are highly versatile as well as excellent family pets. They are retrievers, pointers and large game trackers as is the Weimaraner. We use them as capable recreational sled and Skijoring dogs. Their long legs and athletic builds provide us with breathtaking speed when being pulled on skis over miles of Georgian Bay ice. They are manageable in harness even when I am on skis to the point where I can control a team of four dogs with voice commands, as when on skis, there is no other way to manage them. Our GBSD are naturally obedient and instinctively willing to please. GBSD are essentially all Weimaraner with a couple of modifications. Their bone structure is typically a little heavier than a Weimaraner and their coats are longer than a Weimaraner and the coats get longer again in winter. Chief is a Weimaraner. The mother of many of our litters is Annie. Annie is part Weimaraner and Part Lab. Annie is over 95 pounds and was born in 2002. Chief, born in 2004 is very strong with well developed musculature from pulling the sled. He is about 70 pounds. His puppies usually equal him in over all size (but not weight), by six months of age. Charlie, Chief's son was over 85 lbs. by one year of age. The other mothers producing puppies are Polly and Penny, daughters of Annie. Fathers are various Weimaraners contracted for breeding. We now have three other females approaching breeding age. We have selected female puppies that have specific colour patterns for our breeding program. Charcoal, Brown and Tan, Light Brown, Grey, Silver Grey and Sand. We are still hoping for a female black and tan puppy to add to the mix.
Recently we saw a post on a dog forum photo of a Lab / Weimaraner cross from England that has identical colouring as our own brown and tan puppies and Polly. The colour variation must therefore be a recessive gene common to many or all Weimaraners. In the beginning, we dreamed of a Weimaraner with winter options! Our goal is to adapt the Weimaraner to the north by mixing in some of the strength and the thicker fur coat of the lab for winter. We wanted a Weimaraner that was as strong as a lab and as fast as a Weimaraner or a German Short Haired Pointer. We wanted dogs capable and "willing" to pull sleds or skiers for fun over the long distances we have on the Georgian Bay coast. We wanted fast dogs just for the thrill of sledding and Skijoring but we needed dogs with thicker, warmer coats than Weimaraners or German Short Haired Pointers. We wanted a companion and good company on long winter expeditions and during the long hot dog days of summer too where a short coat allows for natural cooling after a run. Traditional sled dogs suffer in the summer in these latitudes and you can't let them off their leash for they will run in to the forest and come back tomorrow or next week. We wanted a dog to intimidate the bears which otherwise cross our property every day on their way to the local landfill site. We wanted to protect our animals and our children. To be effective at this task we can't tie up the dogs but we also can't afford to have them wander off into town either. Weimaraners don't have the same wander lust as other retrievers or pointers which we have owned before. Weimaraners can hunt just a well as these other hunting dogs but they would rather do it with us than by themselves. They stay close by. We also needed dogs that were instinctively gentle with and interested in our toddler. Temperament
Living with Chief, my weimaraner male, is like living with a curious child. He wants to be part of everything - even to the point of examining every nail I hammer or every tool in my tool box. He wants to be with me everywhere I go and do everything I do. I am not sure he knows that he is a dog! His puppies are the same. There is not one particle of aggressiveness in these dogs unless some thing is threatening. They are brave. The only experience we have with this aspect of their well documented behavior is when they encounter local bears who frequent our property. Good luck to the unsuspecting bear crossing our lands. Our adult dogs have treed a dozen bears and chased many more off the property at high speed. Some of our bears are 500 pounds. They don't come back. Some are collared and are known to us. We see them at the land fill site. Our dogs are tenacious and unblinking as they charge the big bears. These dogs have a deep authoritative bark. They terrify the bears. Avro will attack the bears head on at full speed with a continuous bark or howl that is reserved for bears. The bears turn and run every time, and thankfully too as one bear swat would kill any dog. I helped a failing yearling bear one summer. She came to me cold, wet, hungry and injured from a squabble with another bear. She had taken a swat on the jaw. Nothing was broken but she had a small infected cut and was in pain No, the photo to the right is of a black bear, not a black dog. About Black Bear Farm. We have thirty five acres of trees and rock, a pond and more rock and trees. During the summer we have more bears per acre than anywhere in the country - hence, with tongue in cheek, we call ourselves 'Black Bear Farm' but its not a farm at all. We have a small home under the tall pines.
Our dogs are very obedient and try to please. They use their superior intelligence to communicate and become better companions and responsive working partners. Our cross bred dogs may be taller than a Lab. They are as tall as Weimaraners. They have the athletic build of the Weimaraner. Their longer legs allow them a longer stride. They run fast and have endurance for recreational skiing and sledding. They have well developed musculature in the hips and buttocks and large deep chests that give them the staying power needed when running in harness. Their longer coats protect them in the winter. Provided with an insulated dog house, they are happy being outside for short periods of time. |
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Weimaraner, Chief, born 2004. Annie born 2002. Annie is a Lab Weimaraner Cross and is the mother of many of our puppies. She produces grey, blue grey, grey and tan, silver grey, light brown, light brown and tan, black, black and tan, and sand colored puppies. She usually has six to ten puppies in a littler sired by Chief.
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Skijoring - Sledding
I put our adult dogs, Annie, Avro and Penny, to good work in the winter of 2003. I purchased dog harnesses and a dog sled and my three adult dogs took me touring all over the snow and ice of Georgian Bay, Killarney Bay and dozens of miles of snowmobile trails that extend in two directions from our community. Two of the dogs could pull the sleigh but they were happier pulling me on my cross country skis. This they did with great pleasure. They took me for miles and miles in all directions. As they became stronger they could pull me for an hour at a time at a continuous gallop or fast lope. We often saw deer on the ice in the distance, usually a mile away as they crossed the ice from the main land to the Islands. With the scent or sight of deer in the distance they would run for a mile at an electrifying speed. The deer would be long gone by the time we reached the shore but the ride was a thrill.Chief, the first sire of our puppies, was purchased as a half grown puppy himself, in 2004. Chief accompanied me and the adult dogs on every Skijoring outing, running free the first winter and often ahead of the others as he was faster. As Chief is a full blooded Weimaraner, his coat is too short for the winter cold and his bone structure is lighter. The cold didn't seem to bother him when running with the team, even i
n the moonlight at -25 Celsius. Once stopped however, I would bundle him in an extra coat. By spring he was big enough to join the team. I harnessed him one spring day and hooked him to the sled. He only turned back to me twice then never turned back again. It took Chief less than five minutes to learn how to be a sled dog! Now he the best of them all.
Jogging
The dogs pull me over the summer 4 x 4 trails. I attach myself as the sled and run behind them. With this arrangement the dogs pull me as I run behind them, extending my endurance by hours. The extra dog power allows me to jog for more miles over the trails. Being on my feet instead of my skis gives me greater control and allows me to train them as sled dogs more efficiently.
These puppies will chew anything and everything within reach, especially when left alone. They are wonderful dogs in every other respect. They need lots of exercise and lots of attention. The careful breeding of the Weimaraner has made them more interested in people than other dogs or in hunting alone as explained in the article below. My dogs are great outdoor companions too. The Weimaraner would prefer to hike with you rather than going off on its own. These dogs cannot survive happily in a pen or being tied up. They are truly family dogs.
Viewing: By Appointment . You can place a deposit on our next litter. Litters usually arrive in April and again in July, ready for deliver in June and September..
Contact: Brien East 705-287-1095, 1120 Hwy 637, Killarney On P0M 2A0
About the Weimaraner
The following is an excerpt from Weimaraner Ways by Virginia Alexander and Jackie Isabell. Alexander, Virginia & Isabel, Jackie. Weimaraner Ways. Sunstar Press: Germantown, MD, 1993Is the Weimaraner right for you? http://ncweimaraner.org/foryou.html
"Bird dog" means different things to different people, and satisfaction with a dog's performance is determined by how well it fulfills their expectations. The key to satisfaction with a Weimaraner, then, is understanding the breed's special aptitudes and knowing what to expect of the typical Weimaraner in the field.
A Unique Hunting Dog
Origins and Hunting Style The Germans developed the Weimaraner to meet the needs of the 19th- century German forester. Beginning with a hound like fur-hunting, tracking breed that was aggressive toward predators, the Germans added the functions of bird-hunting and retrieving needed by the professional forester. The breed they developed had the following qualities.Search for and retrieve birds and small, furred game in field and forest on land and in water Work at steady, tireless pace, neither fast nor wide Manner of hunting characterized by thoroughness of search rather than speed Keen nose for the search and natural tracking ability to find wounded furred and feathered game Protective but never vicious Easy trainability with an open-ended intelligence and problem-solving aptitude Water love and ability to swim tirelessly while searching dense cover with fierce determination.
A dog that performed these many functions shared every part of its master's life, and the Forester's Dog developed a strong bond with humans and a need for human companionship. Because of the varied game sought and tasks performed, the Weimaraner worked in close partnership, looked to the handler for leadership and responded willingly to directions.
The Weimaraner's temperament was a unique blend of tough aggressiveness in the face of danger and softness or sensitivity in training situations. Sporting writers of the 1880s commented that it was an accepted rule to treat the Weimaraner lovingly and to speak softly as often as possible, never beating the dog for failure.
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Chief, born 2004.
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By the early 20th century, the qualities the Germans desired had been so well-established in the breed that they are still typical of American Weimaraners even after generations of nonselective breeding. The best evidence of this is that in the late 1980s several Weimaraners from so-called show lines qualified for the most advanced performance titles in Germany.
A Versatile Hunting Breed
Versatile hunting dog is defined as "a generic term applied to a dog that is bred and trained to dependably hunt and point game, to retrieve on both land and water, and to track wounded game on both land and water."1The Weimaraner is not the only versatile hunting breed developed on the European continent, and in Germany, all are tested by standards established by the German Versatile Hunting Dog Association. The following versatile breeds are recognized by the AKC: Brittany, German Shorthaired Pointer, German Wirehaired Pointer, Vizsla, Weimaraner, and Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.
Breed development followed a different pattern on the British Isles, where breeds were expected to excel in only one specific function: the Pointer as well as the Irish, English, and Gordon Setters pointed feathered game; the Golden, Labrador, Flat Coated, and Curly Coated Retrievers retrieved feathered game; a variety of hounds filled the needs for large and small furred-game hunting and blood tracking.
The AKC, established in 1884, developed field trial rules and performance standards for its recognized breeds -- that is, the British specialists. Bird dogs either pointed or retrieved, never both. When the versatile breeds arrived later, the AKC classified all as pointers instead of designing a new type of trial to evaluate their unique and very different talents.
Competing in pointing-breed trials placed the newcomers at a disadvantage, though there have been a few Weimaraners over the years that competed successfully in all-breed competition. Through selective breeding to enhance speed, range, and pointing style, the performance of some versatile breeds such as the Vizsla and German Shorthaired Pointer has been altered for greater competitive success in AKC pointing-breed trials. In general, however, this has been achieved at the expense of their retrieving, tracking, scenting aptitude, trainability, and interest in furred game.
For the hunter, the most important difference between the Weimaraner and the other versatile hunting breeds is that the Forester's Dog cannot be kept in a backyard kennel between hunting seasons. It requires human companionship because hunting is only one facet of its total partnership with humans. 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.
Owners who lack the time and skill to train their Weimaraners, especially if they hope the dog has competitive potential, must send them to the few professional trainers who understand the Weimaraner's temperament. Field trainers who are accustomed to the hard-headed Pointer often lack the soft touch and the partnership bond required for success with a Weimaraner.
Fortunately, the very quality that frustrates so many professional trainers -- the need to treat a Weimaraner gentle and lovingly -- makes the breed uniquely suitable for an amateur. Some trainers admit that the breed's intelligence and instinctive aptitude are so strong that the best way to train a Weimaraner is merely to provide an opportunity for the dog to hunt and to observe other dogs. This is, in fact, the approach used by German trainers -- to provide guided experience that allows instinctive behavior patters to unfold. The dog's instinct provides the motivation, and its intelligence helps it discover the best way to do it. Moreover, when Weimaraners work with an older, well-trained dog, the breed's copycat trait accelerates and reinforces learning.
The Weimaraner is an excellent breed for sportsmen who want a gun dog that does not range too far for hunting on foot, covers the terrain with painstaking thoroughness, retrieves birds on land and in water, is easily trained by a novice, and is a delightful companion when not hunting. It thrives on human companionship and must be part of the family; this bonding with humans is linked with its versatile working traits, and if isolated from household activities, the Weimaraner's hunting aptitude rarely develops properly. Those who desire these traits consider the Weimaraner the finest of all bird dogs.