If you are consider a hunting companion from OwyheeStar....
I would indeed recommend a pup from Owyhee, based on my personal experience and observation.
I specifically wanted a smaller, female, birdy dog and that is CZ to a tee. She is 28 months now, a slender 53 pounds (field weight… I like to see her around 55/56 when she isn’t hunting.) She has the sweetest temperament and is a delight to live with. As you know, even dedicated field weimies do best indoors with the family, and she is the quintessential “family” dog. CZ’s also long legged, even for the breed, and incredibly quick. As her trainer says, she’s no couch potato. I do believe she’d hunt until she dropped if I let her. She casts well according to the cover; close in brush, further out in grasslands. Generally, she’s close casting. This comes in part from how she’s been trained. I’m 65 and don’t care for dogs that locate their birds a quarter mile away.
This past fall and winter was her first full season on pheasants and chukars, both wild and released. With every hunt she seems to learn more and get better. I’ve had her afield with veteran German shorthairs and English pointers, and she’s held her own very nicely. She’s hunted with a “pointing” Labrador retriever too, and that was no contest. CZ hunted circles around the Lab. She has easily leaned and adapted to running birds, and I do not believe you can teach a dog how to deal with that. She has evolved a fluid pointing style on running birds entirely on her own.
CZ is my third hunting weimy, and like my children I try not to compare my bird dogs. But I have to say CZ fits my hunting goals perfectly.
Shela and her husband know what they’re doing. You’ll never find breeders who love their animals more. And they follow up their puppy sales with newsletters, health alerts, and just generally stay in touch. They take their business seriously, and they are raising some serious gun dogs.
I hope this is useful.
Best,
Elton 5/30/2007
