This is why we breed German Shorthairs
Hi Francois
I thought I should give you a update on what happened last
weekend, being at the end of bird hunting season Dawn and I was sitting at home
bored and frustrated so we decided to go out for a early morning walk on a game
farm. In Limpopo finding training grounds are not easy as a wing shooter so we do
the majority of our training on game farms. On arrival the owner approached me
and asked if I could assist in finding a wounded Impala that he shot earlier that
morning as rations for his staff. Not keen to use my trained bird dog to chase
wounded animals in 30 degree heat I agreed to help since we have the use of his
farm for training. We were taken to were
the Impala was shot and we looked around for traces of blood found nothing and
finally had to follow the spoor. I encouraged Dawn to take the spoor she was
nosing around and suddenly took off in the direction the herd had run off I was
tempted to call her then decided to give her a chance and followed her instead.
In a distance I saw her going on point and rushed to her the wounded Impala was
found I was amazed with what happened. The last 10 months we had only trained
on birds and Dawn tracked and found an wounded Impala starting with tracks and
no blood were it was shot on I was truly amazed at what my little GSP had just done!
