skyttens weimaraner

Camilla grew up with German shepherd and had trained family dogs both in obedience and human tracking before she got her first own dog in 1996. Her first dog was a 1-year-old longhaired German shepherd named Hoss, who have had a variety of homes during his first year and he had learned an equal number of bad behaivors. Hoss was converted slowly to a good obedience and working dog (tracking and protection) dog and he became a good family dog to. Unfortunately, we had to put him down too early, when he developed severe epilepsy after all the beatings he had before Camilla bought him.

 
Kaiser retrieving.

When the time had come to get a new dog it had to be a compromise between Camillas desire for a working dog that never gets tired, and Anders desire for a hunting dog, like a hunting Labrador retriever. After a lot of searching and reading we found the all-round races German pointer and weimaraner. The weimaraner had better looks and if we would have a german pointer it would have to be a rouh haired (mostly better hunters than the shor haired in Sweden) and Camilla had a little problem with the idea of more fur care after the german shepard. So a weimaraner it was!  Patron became our weimaraner and he came to us in 2001. At first he was only trained in obedience and as a working dog (both at human tracking and reporting), but after a bird training all that changed. Camilla became so interested in bird training and hunting that everything else escaped her mind. Patron quickly proved to be an excellent bird finder but he had a little too small search on the field so it only became 2nd prices on field tests. The water retrieving and the tracking were always to easy and to retrieve fox and badger was something natural for Patron. Today we use Patron primarily as a shock dogs on deer and wild boar and as a retriever on duck hunts and a search dogs at injured games.

In order not to train Patron to much we bought a curly coated retriever 2003 called Tyke. Tyke was meant to be the retriever that the we needed at all the duck- and pheasants hunts we participate at. Unfortunately, it was soon shown that we always needed to but a great pressure on Tyke for him to retrieve anything else than dummies, which is not possible during hunting. With dummies was he very good however so we started twice on working tests. The first test was a national working test and at that trial he got a 2nd prize in beginners class. The second test was a international trial here in Sweden where there was starting dogs from all around the world (USA, New Zealand, France, England, Denmark, Finland and Garmany for example)var representerade.. Tyke got a 1st prize that day and won the whole trial! In 2007 Tyke moved to Furulund, due to his difficulties to get along in the packt, where he now lives with Camillas father.

 

In2006 we got our second weimaraner - Kaiser. Kaiser was acquired primarily for bird hunting and he really has everything a good bird dog should have. A speed and range that is very good and a will to work and please that is huge. He goes from strength to strength and in 2007 he got a 1st prize in youth class and in 2008 he got a 1st prize in open class. Kaiser loves water and has a great water passion so it is almost difficult to get him out of the water sometimes. It is a challenge to train and lead him but we all need challenges.

Anders with one of his rusa deers on Mauritius. 

In 2008 we got the opportunity to buy Lille from the Norwegian kennel Garbu. Lille is about as old as Kaiser, and has a wonderfully exciting pedigree. Lille have a 1st and 3rd prize at retrieving tests in Norway. She has started and passed our Swedish water- and tracking retrieving test in both youth- and open class. And she got a 2nd prize on a field trial last autumn. Lille has a very good speed and range, and handles birds great. Her water passion is high and her willingness to work and please great. We shall see what she can achieve in future.

 

In the family Anders is representing cloven-hunting and Camilla has the greatest interest in bird hunting. We are both active hunters, Anders in nearly 15 and Camilla in nearly 4 years. Camilla is the one who train the dogs and it is also Camilla who start at different kind of tests. Camilla e member of the Swedish Weimaraner club (SweiK) Board since 2007 and is Vice-President since April 2008. Camilla is also editor of SWeiK´s journal WeimaranerNytt since 2006 and a approved test leader for SWeiK hunting trials. Camilla helps people with their dogs (both individual and groups) whenever she has time.