Bossie

I'm a parttime (pro) rabbit catcher. Most of my work requires a 150-180mile drive. One way that is!

If it's not your first dog get a brittany. Will do both.

Gwp/ drahthaar, gsp, weimaran pointers are all expected to handle teeth. Even m brittany is pretty gritty.

Around here one of the most used earth dogs when bolting to guns.

I can have them made for 2.5 euros a piece. Should be easy to find someone who can.

I don't own one, have contemplated adding one to my pack for a while. Have seen them work/worked along side them. They breed true to type, they are a line bred type/breed. Come in tan/red, black and tan and brindle. Not a fci recognised product, but who cares. A first cross is not a heideterrier, just a first cross. They have used some Irish terrier as an infusion several years to add to the small genepool. However there are also people crossing gwp to djt/gjt and calling them heideterriers, just like first crosses they aren't. The heideterrier is a line bred product. Check heidet

They range from 10-25 kg. Very allround dog. Boar hunting, tracking wounded deer, retrieving, bushing small game, man work. Vocal, short ranging, gritty. They catch in packs. Main reason for them existing is the jagds dropping below during driven boar hunts which is a pain. Sone jagd strains can be neurotic. So a bigger, robust and mentally sound find, bay and catch dog was designed.

Yes there was, especially in the flatter parts: Flanders/ Belgium and Netherlands. Over were I'm located up to around 1920.

Hunting with lurchers and longdogs has been banned for almost 100 years over here. There is a very long tradition of hunting with sight hounds but due to a anti dog hunting campaign started by the rich gun hunters. Boar is driven and caught.Those who shoot are invited or have payed to do so. Catching a lot with dogs is not appreciated in such a setting. However managing the boar population is becoming more and more pest control, dogs like the bigger heideterriers are catching boar more and more. Usually in packs. See if I can accompany you next time with a few more dogs.

Think the lack of popularity in HPR/gundogs is similar to why non Brittish pastoral dogs are not more popular in Brittain. Availablity, cost, non native/brittish/ kennel blindness all of which I can understand. FFS, on the continent we even use setter on boar. Especially in the Ardennes you come across every cross you´d be able to imagine, gwpx jagd, all kinds of hpr crosses, pure hprs, hound hpr crosses, hound terrier crosses etc. Think those scandinavian greysters (gspx runnning dog) would make nice hunting companions. One thing the HPRs lack imho, is consistent protective/guard instinct

not sure if a full ebt is even allowed to be hunted in germany, lot of the bull breeds/kampfhunden are banned. Get a large Heideterrier, will do manwork and hunt.

Pretty thing Wuyang! Taller dogs, I use a Brittany 17-18"tts but have worked with a Heidewachtel 20" tts, German Wachtel 18-20"tts probably one of the best bushing dogs I've ever seen, like a springer on steroids. Heideterrier also becoming more and more popular due to boar pest control, mainly a very big Jagd-Airedale-Bull cross, hard hunting, vocal and courageous dogs. Size wise they range from 17/24" tts. Have seen Border Collies bush and ferret to a pretty good standard, obedience wise excellent standard. Just find them a bit nervous and sensitive. I prefer something a bit more bo

Alsations only very few, some so called Old German Shepherds are and the German Hütehund is used a lot actually. Tough sheep working dogs those GH. BTW continental shepherds work cattle in a completely different way, not like a border collie at all. They are used as a mobile fence, not to drive sheep from one paddock/pasture to another. They are able of doing it but not like a BC.

I think There are more reasons collie crosses are so popular. It has also got to do with availablity, cost, legislation, kennel blindness/patriotism. Not nocking the collie as a working dog at all, just think there are several mechanisms at work. I´m pretty sure the HPRs are less popular beause they are non brittish, not known, often far more expensive and in many cases not as easy to train as a collie and more independent.

Think that would be a good idea, have thought about crosses or a pure pastoral blooded dog myself. A lot of pastoral breeds are used in the australians boar dogs. Don't see why on the continent this isn't the case. Different rules, and probably not very cool (with all the posh people in hunting) to take your malinois/kelpie/border/gsd/ds to a driven boar hunt LOL. I tink they have a lot to offer. I I'd be able to have just one dog it be either one of the versatile HPR breeds or a pastoral breed, think you'd never go hungry.