Thread: Vizslas in the cold

Originally Posted by Stefanhope

Hi, just wondering what people’s experience is with hunting vizslas in the cold. I’m looking for a vizsla for ungulate work but in the last couple of weeks I have heard of one being sold because it whimpered to much down south due to the cold and also saw one first hand being really uncomfortable in the cold even with a jacket on.

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yes a lot of our goat hunters tried them and cold and river crossings they suffer - my two good mates are on their third + generation of spaniel heading dog cross - by line breeding from the best indicators with the right temperament they now have some absolute top dogs -for hunters who are not well versed in dog training vizlas can be a handfull - for the first two years you have an idiot untill they get a lot more mature - yes they can be very good even brilliant but need someone with some measure of training nous - a mate ran one and said the only real problem he had apart from being an idiot was indicating deer especially Ruahines the deer could be a kilometer down the face if the wind was right and yet the way the vizla was indicating one would think it was 50 metre away - pure heading dogs especially strong eye type can be a problem - one kiwi dog I knew a tri coloured strong eye was fixated with fetching sticks for some reason - pure border collie can be very good but need again a careful owner - many can be very shy and definitely a one person dog but respond well to a kind owner - but cross that with a springer spaniel and you are away