The german dogs are no tougher to train than most labs, that is just nonsense. Pointing dogs by nature should be independent and not constantly looking to their handler, its what makes a good pointer a good pointer. He leads YOU, not you lead HIM. The best pointers head hell bent for leather to the cover that holds birds.

Also, for the German Pointers, they are not diggers, they are not barkers, they are not chewers, and they mature in about 18 months and quit acting like puppies and start acting like dogs. If you get a lab expect a lot longer for mental maturation and most of them are chewers some REALLY REALLY bad chewers (I know guys whose labs have cribbed dog houses to nothing and ripped siding off of houses), a lot of them are diggers, but I don't think many of them are really barkers.


I like both breeds and own a gsp and a lab, so I am not particularly biased, but I think its not right to imply that a PL is the same dog as a GWP just easier to train because its not true.