Bavarian Mountain Hound as an all round dog?

[Heym SR20]

BMH’s are very good as a scent hound for deer and boar. But can they do other jobs such as finding birds and indeed retrieving.

And what are they like as an all round part of the family.

We do have a BMH / Lab and she is wonderful and will track deer, but also good rough shooting and wildfowling. But she turns 8 next month so beginning to think about next dog.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Personally, knowing what I do about the bmh, just get a Labrador!

They are a specific tracking dog for a job, that’s what they are bred to do!

 

[Overlay]

my thoughts would be to stick with a retriever and that can be trained gently overtime to cover most disciplines including stalking and retrieving

chap I know in Northamptonshire take his BMH on his pheasant shoot regularly, it’s only been trained on fallow and is an excellent solid tracker of deer, on the shoot it walks to heel doing nothing, Mebbe as it’s never tracked anything else it just goes for a walk, it shows no interest. Horses for courses I would say

 

[roaring_stag]

My BMH is 18 months old and has taken to her tracking job just perfectly. I wouldn’t leave home without her, and she has proved her worth numerous times.

Additionally, she is a quiet natured, family pet, who lives in the house with us. She settles in just perfectly with our other dogs (working cocker and Jack Russell). She is also an excellent mouser, and has a nose for woodcock.

 

[long_range_rob]

I love BMH’s but they are very different to any other hound I’ve known. I don’t think they’re a Swiss Army knife, more of a scalpel for a specific purpose but there are exceptions that can prove me wrong

 

[sh1kar]

Get a HWHV?

 

[scotch_egg]

BMH’s are very good as a scent hound for deer and boar. But can they do other jobs such as finding birds and indeed retrieving.

And what are they like as an all round part of the family.

We do have a BMH / Lab and she is wonderful and will track deer, but also good rough shooting and wildfowling. But she turns 8 next month so beginning to think about next dog.

I’m sure some one was offering BMH X Lab on here recently. If you like what you got why change.

Personally I went with a lab as an all rounder. Although the HWV in the photo looks stunning. I also like GWP’s but to ones I’ve met have been a bit highly strung and for me not suited to the house.

 

[VIGILAIRE]

My BMH boy is coming up to 10. He's showing his age a bit but recently managed 2 days and nights away with an escaped in season fox hound from the next farm. He has always lived in the house and been a loyal and protective pet especially towards the girls. Never used Milo for anything other than tracking, not as much as I'd have liked but coincidentally he's also an accomplished mouser like Roaring Stag's. Crossed with a lab it'd probably be a really good worker.

 

[Bowland blades]

Never buy a mixed breed expecting the dog to take to mixed tasks . Heck , there is a lot of luck in that . Instead buy the dog on the basis of it doing just one thing as regards employment and sometimes you get lucky . I have had that just twice in 40 plus years and a lot of dogs
Now i am meaning " really doing multiple jobs "

 

[Cumbrian 1]

GWP is a good all rounder with the exception of sitting on a peg.

 

[Dunwaters]

I was at a deer dog event a few years ago ( actually it was a good few years ago now ) and received the following pearls of wisdom.
The BMH and similar dogs are for the professional stalker, someone who’s out 5 days a week every week.
An semi professional or busy amateur stalker out every week will do well with one of the HPR breeds, with a WGP or SGP slightly preferred to some of the others.
An amateur stalker will do well with a Labrador or similar.
Think about it, over the last 5 years stalking how often did you actually need the services of a dedicated trailing dog?
However the choice is yours, you’re going to be paying for it, training and feeding it, best of luck with whatever you choose.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

99.99999,9999% of UK stalkers do not need a BGS end of subject. There is not enough work in the UK for this breed end of subject.

This is my conclusion after having them combined for 20 years and training and travelling to the full standard of the German breed club

All they are is the latest fashion accessory that is it and have been so for over a decade, in my personal opinion, it is a breed that should never have come to the UK the bloodlines have been nothing but wasted.

 

[rem284]

If you want an easy to train/work general purpose dog a labrador would be the one to choose. The GWP is called the versatile gundog but they are a lot more difficult to train/work. For me the bmh is to specialised for my desires

 

[Bowland blades]

GWP is a good all rounder with the exception of sitting on a peg.

that's 100% training, unless we are talking terriers . There is imo no all round dog , the nearest is the Lab 1. most popular pet dog world wide 2. most popular gun dog worldwide 3. most popular assistance dog . Its also one of the youngest breeds on the planet .
I would never own another GWP , though i have known a couple or real good ones but most i have more experience of GWPs i would not have as a gift

 

[bullet chucker]

GWP is a good all rounder with the exception of sitting on a peg.

WHAT AN AWFUL' THING TO EXPECT A DOG TO !!

BC.

 

[dogone]

I had a pudelpointer, Fritz. I farm and guide and hunt a lot. He was more dog than I needed. What he could do and what I had time to train him for , were very different.
Back to labs now. Covers all the bases.

 

[Cumbrian 1]

WHAT AN AWFUL' THING TO EXPECT A DOG TO !!

BC.