German Wire Hair Pointer V Cats

Cut+Squirt

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For all you GWP owners out there.

My GWP has recently taken a serious dislike to all things pussy.
The neighbour has a couple of house cats which of late must have lost a few of their nine lifes.

All of a sudden Heidi girl wants cat blood, up to now {she is 7 months} she has been very laid back when confronted by cats and didn't seem very interested at all.

Is this a trait that the GWP as a breed is know for?

Anyone else had similar issues...............?

It has its plus sides mind you as none of my plants are being dug up now but I dont much fancy a neighbour at the door with a few scraps of cat fur left.

CADEX
 
I rehomed a vizla recently but was originally looking at a GSP or GWP before being offered mine, but in what I read about the continental HPRs in general one of there main quarries they were bred for was feral cats
 
My Large Munsterlander is the same hates cats with avengance,he had our old neighbours cat off the top of the fence when he was younger grabbed it by the back and just plucked it off luckily for the cat my misses was there and managed an extraction of the cat and got her arms torn to pieces,didn't see it on our fence after that,we now have new neighbours with two cats and ones getting a bit daring and it is only a matter of time before he catches it out,now he's that bit older i don't fancy its chances to much if he does and no ones there to save it.
 
GWP's as a rule hate cats. Most owners will tell you of trips down the garden in the middle of the night to bury next door's pussy. So far mine has killed two cats fortunately both were feral cats. The fence around my back garden has had to be extended and is now over seven foot high so that my dog can't get to the neighbour's cats.
 
My old GSP sucked on a friends cat until its leg fell off, humane dispatch time for me followed by some inventive disposal, it was in norway and was -20c, ground frozen 1m down!!
 
My GWP has recently taken a serious dislike to all things pussy.

Is this a trait that the GWP as a breed is know for?

Acquaintances have reported the same with their GWPs. Mind you I think any working hunting, (not gundog), breed will have the same traits maybe? My BMH is developing a healthy 'kill-on-sight' attitude to felines, so we no longer have kitty krap on the path and the neighbours cats are now very wary about coming near our property.


It has its plus sides mind you as none of my plants are being dug up now but I dont much fancy a neighbour at the door with a few scraps of cat fur left.

Isn't that what the Local Authority provide recycling/composting bins for? ;)
 
My young GSP is the same. He will dispatch any cat he sees if he can catch it. And he is quick too.

He decapitated my sons rabbit a few nights ago. Somehow that was my fault not the dogs........
 
same here cats are the only thing she will not stop on anything else foxes hares etc I can stop her cats no way. Thats despite living with one for a while, she absolutely turns herself inside out trying to get them, I've had her stuck in a neighbours garden having cleared his gate, then a fence mid way down his garden and then a banked area with the cat up a tree the far end and her barking at it. 8am on a sunday morning I was unamused having to go and ask if it was ok to retrieve her. Generally the neighbours like it as they all have the same problem with cats crapping in their gardens, Most people seem to worry they will get a claw in the eye etc but I'm not too sure I've yet to see a cat stand its ground and if anything she goes for a grip round the middle.
I'm only 3 years into ownership of said monster but I'm fairly sure the spade will be used before too long
 
all four of my gsp's hate cat , and all the pups we bred that we still see hate cats...... i rather like the breed myself.
 
Yep, my GSP absolutely hates cats so luckily none appear in our garden anymore to crap in the flower beds, not that we have many flower beds left with the manic GSP & a laid back Lab wrecking the joint! :rolleyes:

Rosie did corner a cat a month ago in our garden, stupid thing was sat on our fence & we came back from a walk through the side gate & the daft animal jumped down into our garden, well mayhem ensued until I grabbed the dogs off to rescue the cat which was trying to claw the GSP's eyes out, I grabbed the bloody thing by a leg & chucked it over next doors fence!! :D

She has a big thing about rabbits as well & will go on point for most anything else but rabbits are a big no no & its straight in job done on them.

Chris
 
Why don't you just train her not to chase them? I dare say my GWP hates cats but he'll leave them alone unless I tell him to get them. He's the same on deer. If I had a dog that wouldnt stop doing something when I told him, I would consider that I'd failed in the basic training of him. Why do some people seem to think it's acceptable for their dog to kill someone's beloved pet (not talking about feral cats here). My kids would have been distraught if our old cat or ferrets for that matter had been killed by someone's dog.
 
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You have more chance of teaching them not to cock their legs - its in their genes.
 
You have more chance of teaching them not to cock their legs - its in their genes.

Sorry, dont agree. Ive never had a GWP but Ive had several lurchers, labs, collies, german shepherds & terriers all trained to hunt anything from rat to fox etc. and the only one that bothered with cats was my 1st lurcher many moons ago when I was young and daft (and to be perfectly honest I did encouraged him a bit). The key with dogs and cats is the same as dogs and any livestock. They have to learn that it is an absolute no no from the time that the are pups.
 
I thought this thread was going to give odds on a good bet!!! I'd go for the GWP over the cat every time.
Is your GWP from Dennis perchance Cadex?
My bitch GWP 7 months old (on Sunday) and Ive had some erm 'issues' with her regarding the other dogs at home (2xLab, 1 x cocker). She is very possessive of my attention and will attack without any give away any of the other dogs that come near when she is near to me. This continued for about a month until dominance issues were resolved and some serious rollickings dished out.
She still thinks nothing over getting over heated in the garden chasing the other dogs around playing and then jumping head first into the pond to cool off much to the chief kitchen mechanics dismay.
Apparently its all part of owning a GWP.....bless them
 
I know of a couple of GWPs that have killed other dogs. One of which did it twice.......Both were dogs. My bitch is very sociable with other dogs. One of the issues may be that stalkers (GWP owners) are often 'one dog' people where their dogs not have much access to other pets or animals and therefore become properly socialised. We also often hype them up on a kill (I'm thinking of my futile attempts to teach my dog to bark on finding a carcase!)
 
You have more chance of teaching them not to cock their legs - its in their genes.

I don't necessarily agree. I know of a few dogs that are just downright dangerous (army attack dogs like Belgian Malinois) that although trained, will lose the plot in certain situations. However, if I had a stalking/gundog like that I would get rid of it and certainly would not breed from it. I'm with Stringer on this one. Early association is essential and so is a firm hand (or blue pipe!)
 
I don't necessarily agree. I know of a few dogs that are just downright dangerous (army attack dogs like Belgian Malinois) that although trained, will lose the plot in certain situations. However, if I had a stalking/gundog like that I would get rid of it and certainly would not breed from it. I'm with Stringer on this one. Early association is essential and so is a firm hand (or blue pipe!)

Tricky one isn't it?

On the one hand you can't have your dog going out of control and killing things unintentionally and even troublesome cats are not fair game in the eyes of the law, though the owners of such cats can and should be held liable more often for the carnage they create, but that matters not in the least if your dog has done wrong.

On the other hand GWPs were bred and used to track and dispatch (among other things) Roe deer, so they are very likely to have more than their share of "killer" in them and you may well wish to channel this trait to humane ends.

At the end of the day every dog is the responsibilty of it's owner and the consequences of an out-of-control dog are dire for all concerned.
 
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My GWP will have a go at birds that are too close, rabbits, hares and so on. She is extremely gentle however with people and other dogs. She is kenneled next to other dogs and is exercised with them as well but is only ever worked on her own for deer. I have no doubt though that given the chance, she would have a go at a cat. If the look on her face is anything to go by when she spits a young crow or rook out her mouth you would swear she is saying, 'what, what's wrong with that...'
 
Why do some people seem to think it's acceptable for their dog to kill someone's beloved pet (not talking about feral cats here). My kids would have been distraught if our old cat or ferrets for that matter had been killed by someone's dog.


Why do people let their "beloved" pets out all day without a care, crapping in peoples gardens running in roads etc

In places on the continent if your cat is off your property then its fair game, thats how it should be! Don't want them to get hurt then train your indiscrimate wildlife killing cats and don't try to shift blame onto other people. If its not acceptable to have dogs doing what they like(which I agree it isn't) then how come it is for cats to?!?!
 
Why do people let their "beloved" pets out all day without a care, crapping in peoples gardens running in roads etc

In places on the continent if your cat is off your property then its fair game, thats how it should be! Don't want them to get hurt then train your indiscrimate wildlife killing cats and don't try to shift blame onto other people. If its not acceptable to have dogs doing what they like(which I agree it isn't) then how come it is for cats to?!?!

Fair point but if you can train a cat not to do all that then you can easily train a GWP not to kill cats!
 
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