Multi-purpose dogs

crazycoonhunterNE · 03-25-2008, 03:40 PM

I have a lab/gsp cross that is the best bird dog ever. She points & retrievesupland birdsandretrieveswaterfowl & doves. She also trails wounded deer, and loves to hunt coons. I used to leave her at home when I went coonhunting, cause I didn't want her nose to get mixed up, i took her along one time and she loved it. so I kept taking her. then I took her pheasant hunting in a cattail swamp, hoping that she wouldn't find a coon. She never once even sniffed down a coon trail.One night we took her to the same swamp coon hunting, and she never once sniffed for a pheasant. She somehow knows that daytime meanspheasants andnight means coons. if i have her trailing a wounded deer, she kind of wanders off on pheasant scent, or coon trails, butif you get her back on the blood she does fine. My purebreed GSP is strictly upland for now, but she may get to go on a coon hunting trip this next winter.

Does anybody else have any multi purpose dogs?

SwampCollie · 03-27-2008, 07:10 PM

My golden retrieves ducks, geese, doves, phesants, quail and pigeons... and would likely any other bird you shot in his presence. He is also a decerning critic of finer shoe leathers (whatever Sperry boat shoes uses seems to appeal to him), a food affeciando (and he helps himself when your back is turned), if you leave the door to the room where the cat box is he will be most happy to help you clean it out, he has been known to help sort the recycling, he has reviewed a few books and sadly I don't think he cared for any of them as they were left in rather poor condition, most of all though, he is without a doubt the single most worthless guard animal I've ever seen. I'd sooner have a guinea pig and hope a would be home invaded mistook it for a rat and feared of the plague.

So really, Dutch is quite the renaissance dog ain't he?

crazycoonhunterNE · 03-28-2008, 04:34 PM

sounds like you got quite a dog

JW · 03-29-2008, 04:38 AM

I hunt geese, ducks, in swamps and big lakes and fields, hunt dove, pheasant, woodcock, grouse, sharptails, quail, - have had the dog track wounded turkey.

I have no doubt could teach a blood track but don't want mine running deer.

I run German Wire Hair pointers