Small Indoor Kennel Design by Todd Chrisman I recommend an indoor kennel because of your ability to control the environment, protect the dogs, and limit noise. This design is a shed. Maybe I'll get fancy and specify interior materials and do real drawings some day.
Of Peas and Pups Dog breeding, written about Shorthairs in the 1960's. The concepts are valuable for any breed, and no recent discovery about genetics has changed the value of this paper at all.
NAVHDA for Newbies by Bill Tarrant 1974 Field & Stream Article. Don't take my word for it. Bill thought NAVHDA was great.
Books:
The Complete German Shorthaired Pointer By Herr H. F. Seiger and Dr. F. von Dewitz-Colpin Out of Print. Hardcover book, 1951 Denlinger. A wonderful and very hard-to-find breed book, illustrated with B&W photographs, 464 pages. This is the first English Language book on the GSP. All other GSP books borrow heavily (or steal outright) from this book. It's required reading to understand where we've come from and even the concepts behind NAVHDA's testing. The Complete German Shorthaired Pointer is becoming very difficult to locate, and I am even searching foreign countries for additional copies.
The Care and Training of the Versatile Hunting Dog. It's the NAVHDA "Green Book" and I recommend it.
German Shorthaired Pointer Kennels:
Sharp Shooters Kennel New Richmond, Wisconsin Clyde and Marilyn Vetter are producing some of the top performing dogs in NAVHDA (and anywhere else). Produced Sharp Shooter's Prairie Dancer "Tango"
Sky Hunter Kennel South Dakota Aaron and Kelley Landry produced Sky Hunter Cole's Rebellion with dual VC mating. They will repeat the breeding that produced Toby.
Briemoor German Shorthairs Rice Lake, Wisconsin Jean Strandlund might be surprised to see a link to her web site here. I don't know her personally, but my buddy Craig has owned a few Briemoor dogs. I base my recommendation on them.
Desert Rose Kennel - Phoenix, Arizona Jean has been an invaluable resource for me and a differing point of view.
Bourg-Royal Kennel, Griffons and Wirehairs Arrondissement Beauport, Quebec Gilbert Tremblay is also a friend. My brother, Sean, owns one of the GWP pups. Is "I'd recommend them to my brother" high enough praise?
Medical:
PennHIP The premier hip dysplasia screening organization.
Lyme Disease From the Center for Disease Control, also other tick borne illnesses.
Dog Age How old is your dog in people years and relative to how old he should be?
Sporting Camps and Hunting Links:
North Maine Woods Association 3,500,000 acres of unposted land, and I've never seen another actual bird hunter. You do the math.
World Pedigrees This is the most extensive German Shorthaired Pointer Pedigree and it is searchable on-line. It's about twice the size of mine.
I have collected over 18,250 GSP's in my pedigree and seem to have more American and modern dogs than World Pedigrees. If you are researching a pedigree and World Pedigrees doesn't have it, let me know.
Fun Site Big Fat Dave's Diesel Cafe & Shootin' Range
