Thread: GSP Cross Mutt, anyone had any experience?

Originally Posted by Nugget connaisseur

A pointer X pup will do perfectly. Some natural instincts and the training you put in will go along way.

As people have said the more you put into your dog the better they will be, regardless of breed.

I was after a pointer as a hunting buddy ended up with Ivy (Belgium Malinois X) not a breed typically used for hunting. If she could find game great but mostly to have company in the bush and track any wounded animals. She doesn't have the natural instincts that pointers do but she is getting better and better with more time in the bush.
Even from the get go i could tell there was animals nearby from her changes in body language. But once it clicked that goats and deer are target animals she
I have done alot of tracking training with hides and blood in open fields then moving to bush.


Her faults are mostly my failures as a handler:
Took her hunting too quickly without fully gun training her - She went from mildly not liking gun shots to tail down running away. To this day she is weary of me handling firearms at home and will run to the car if i set off a cap gun 50m from her at the park.
But get her in the bush hunting and she will down and get excited waiting for the gunshot as she wants to find the animal.
I need to put more time into impulse control as she has now started to break and run forwards after the first shot, not ideal when there is 10+ goats.

Build lots of confidence with the puppy,
buy some Deer Dog Training Blue Print videos to help with your training.
And Go spend time in the bush.

Another thing to consider is what is your work / private life like. if you don't have 1-2 hours a day (maybe more) to put into training and exercising your dog.
Most dogs i see that have been given up on is from lack of training and lack of exercise so dog starts getting bored so barks, whines and destroys things.



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Thanks for sharing, very good looking dogs indeed, Strange how the world works, i have owned two dogs for the last 8 years one of them in particular been a Chitzu, since my most recent human child (3 years of age) my wife has been begging to get a third pup so my youngest can experience having a puppy around as my oldest grew up with our Chitzu and over the last 3 years i kept telling her once one of our dogs pass we can get another pup.......... well as of last night i drove up my long and winding driveway, both my dogs ran up to greet me as per usual but sadly our Chitzu ran under my wheel and we have had to put her down, very unpleasant experience, so naturally I have stuck to my word and excepted this GSP cross pup and will hopefully have in my hands by the long weekend, awesome to see you bought up the deer blueprint, i have been watching many many of his youtube clips, he makes great sense,

on a positive note and slightly funny story, I have also failed my first "hunting" pup he is a huntaway cross, and i also made the fatal mistake of getting him hunting before completely training him, he is also incredibly gun shy the moment he hears my rifle cabinet open he runs and quivers in the corner, when he was 9 months old i took him out pig hunting for the first time with a friend of mine who had 3 decent dogs at the time, we got onto a pig and instead of my pup helping the other dogs he tried protecting the pig and was taking to the other dogs, as much as i failed him i also feel he is just simply too soft at heart for hunting, well pig hunting anyway, he is now 7 years old and is an amazing pet for my kids, since then i have grown older and a tad more wise so i hope to get better hunting results from this GSP cross,