Pointer

The search

The research of the Game or searches as one says in the Jargon consists of a series of laces practiced by the dog on each side of the hunter when this one goes vis-a-vis the wind. The laces are done according to the pace inherent in the race of the dog. The majority of the races search with the gallop, others while gallopping and while trottant and finally of others only while trottant. The dogs search the wind on side to cover the most possible ground and to feel the least emanation well coming directly from the body of a game hidden well on the ground. The odor of game is transported by the wind and forms a cone of odor whose point is on game. The more the odor moves away from game, the more the cone of odor is broad. The dog while searching perceives the odor and is able to have an idea from where the game is according to the width of the cone and the intensity of the odor.

Increase of emanation

As soon as a Chien detects an emanation, it suddenly gives up its search to pass to the increase of emanation. The dog makes then rapids zigzags in extreme cases of the cone of odor. The dog approaches game sufficiently, to frighten just enough him so that the game solidifies fear, but rather far for not that it flies away. At this time, the dog falls to the stop, i.e. it stops the game, it blocks it on the ground. The stop thus consists of an interaction between the dog and the bird. It is more than simple detection of game.

The stop

To the sight of the dog to the stop, the hunter will join its dog. The dog must keep control on the bird as long as the hunter did not arrive. When the hunter arrives beside the dog, he asks the dog to follow it to run towards the bird until the departure of this last. As soon as the bird takes off, the dog must remain wise at the sides of the hunter to leave any freedom to the hunter to draw game in full safety. When the bird is cut down, the hunter orders with the dog to go to bring back game.

Natural qualities

The pointers have several natural qualities which they inherit their ancestors. Their Instinct of stop comes from the instinct which have the predatory ones like the Loup to mark moment of stop right before leaping on their prey. By the selection, the stockbreeders succeeded in exacerbating this instinct to have the dog of the quality which we have today. This instinct with itself is not taught with the dog. One can learn how with a dog to immobilize oneself in front of an odor, but it is impossible to learn how to him to stop a bird as do it so well truths pointers. Certain races as the Breton Épagneul are very early and can show signs of their instinct of stop at once that in two months of age. Other races can be later and show the first signs of stop towards the age of one or two years.

Each race has qualities which are clean for him like their pace with the search, their way of taking and of working the emanation and to even take the stop. These differences make the pride of each amateur of each race. It is even a subject of discussion sometimes ignited between amateurs of different races.

Raising

The raising of the pointers is essential despite everything the natural aptitudes which a dog can have. Raising is the art which consists in communicating with its dog so that he works for us and with us. Each dog has its personality and the adjuster must know to adapt to the dog that it has in front of him. Certain dogs are very rebellious and require a great strength of character, others are more softs and require a great softness. But whatever the dog in front of oneself, it is necessary to know to be patient.

The pointers start by drawing up themselves in the same way that another race of dogs does not import. One learns with the dog walk leaves some, without leaves, the sitted one, slept, the remainder, the recall. One must start in calm places and change place to manage to have a good control on his dog on the hunting grounds. It is necessary to know to proportion its raising not to abrutir the dog and to remove any initiative to him, on the contrary it works to exacerbate qualities of any dog, to develop it with potential full sound.

British pointers

The dogs are fastest and those which have the greatest extent of search. These dogs are the specialists in the plain, of the great released extents. Certain purists do not make bring back these dogs. It is possible to draw up these dogs with the report/ratio, but except exception, these dogs do not have the natural instinct of the report/ratio. These dogs can as well work with wood, as with the woodcock for example, but it is necessary to be conscious that these dogs are not made for the versatility and especially not the versatility with allemande.

Hair runs:

To point

Long hair:

English Setter
Setter Gordon
Irish Setter
red and white Irish Setter

Continental pointers

This category of dogs gathers more the number of races of stop. The dogs of this category are very diversified by their hair, their size, their versatility. The German races and of the Germanic countries are known as very general-purpose, i.e. able to drive out all game, even big game on all the grounds in the countries where it is allowed. Let us say that these races are very effective for work after the shot, i.e. for the report/ratio or to find a wounded game or who succeeded in hiding. Other races, as the races Frenchwoman are general-purpose, but one stresses work before the shot. These races generally have a natural positive ratio and are rather easy to draw up for the report/ratio, whether it is in plain, with wood or the marsh. With due respect to the amateurs of dogs rapporteurs, many dogs are as good with the report/ratio as many dogs rapporteurs.

Hair runs:

Directs French (type the Pyrenees and standard Gascogne)
Braque of Auvergne
Braque of Bourbonnais
Braque St-Germain
Braque of Ariège
Braque German (Khurzhaar)
Braque of Weimar
Braque of Weimar with long hair
Hungarian Braque (Vizsla) (close-cropped hair and hard hair)
Braque Italian (Bracco italiano)

Hard hair or rèche:

Directs German with hard hair Drahthaar
Griffon with hard hair Korthals
Pudel Pointer
Italian Griffon (Spinone)
Barbu Czech (Cesky foucek)

Long hair:

Breton Spaniel
French Spaniel
Picardy Spaniel
blue Spaniel of Picardy
Spaniel of Pont-Audemer
German Spaniel (Langhaar)
Spaniel of Münster (Münsterlander)

All the races of Spaniel Ci-high mentioned are pointers. Indeed, a Spaniel is a pointer to long hair comparatively with Directs which is a pointer to short or close-cropped hair. One should not confuse or translate the French word Épagneul with the English word Spaniel. The English word Spaniel means dog levor of game, which is quite different from a pointer.

The Spaniel drive out in a way similar to Braque, Pointing and Setter. Setter is to some extent a setting Spaniel, i.e. it has tendency to bend its members to bring his body closer to the ground when it takes the stop. Generally, the Spaniel take the stop upright on their legs. It happens that a leg before is raised, but it is not a need.

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Internal bonds

External bonds

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