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Go Back   The original purpose for developing the GSP as a breed was to have a reasonably close-range bird dog for the foot hunter over land and water and for fur and feather. To us, it is very important to keep this original breed origin as  well as the high game drive and enthusiasm strong.Rooster Is the ultimate, upland game dog. He is such a joy to hunt with. We had a couple of training sessions with him as a puppy then took him hunting. He was a natural. We entered him in JH at 6 months old and he passed all 4 tests with ease and high scores across the board. Wild pheasant and quail are our main passion thus our main focus when it comes to our GSPs. We do not   necessarily want our dogs to be trained for Senior or Master Hunt tests. We do not want them steady to wing or shot on wild birds as they need to relocate on their own when a bird moves on them. Wild birds are not club birds! We like to give our dogs a lot of time in the field and let them learn on their own the finer points of hunting.Rooster is the best hunting partner we have ever had to joy to hunt behind. His first season he pointed 36 wild pheasants and bagged hundreds at various  clubs in Northern CA. Since then he has lived up to his name "Wild Bird Warrior". He will hunt from dusk to dawn without stopping and gets upset when we take more than a few minute break! Rooster has become a legend in our neck of the woods and anyone who has be lucky enough to hunt behind him has always been eager to be invited back. We have greatly benefitted from his abilities to impress people who hunt with him. In other words, we get to go along and hunt when Rooster gets invited to be the "guide" on wild hunts as well as at the local clubs. We are very excited about his upcoming litter in late 2007! See our Planned Breeding page for more information.Frieda has quickly followed in Rooster's paw-steps. She has a very high prey drive, is extremely bold, is very stylish in the field and has always retrieved to  hand naturally! Frieda passed JH at a very young age without any training other than running in the field. Since then, Rooster has taught her the finer points of being a wild bird hunting and they now work great together as a team. She has given us many memorable days in the field. She hunts at a SH test level so we may decide to go to the next level with her someday. Both litters of puppies she has had are naturals in the field and one from the last litter, Dixee, passed her JH title with out formal training at just 10 months old. Her first 2 legs were at 6 months and one day she had the second highest score! All the pups that have been in the field and on birds have classy, staunch points and they retrieved the very first time out! See more of Frieda's pups on our Bred By page.Echo....we don't know where to start! This one came with a twin-turbo charged engine! She ran her first Hunt Tests at 6 months old and had NEVER been in the field, had any training or even seen a chukar! She ran so huge and FAST after spooking a covey of birds in the back field that she ran 400 yards out and   never made it back into the bird field to finish the test. We did see her get up lots of other game birds in the process, like ducks! Diving into the thickest cover of tules without hesitation! She did get 10's on hunting and bird finding! The next day she ran just as huge but made it back into the bird field going from one end to the other at extreme speeds and slammed on point just long enough to pass! Both days the "old timers" who were judging were very impressed and called her "one in a million". They said to not enter her in Hunt Tests anymore and not to show her because we had an All-Age dog,. Of course this thrilled us but that is not in our plans at this time. Knowing she can do it is wonderful enough! Since that time, we have not had time to get her back in the field for training as our business keeps us on the road 42 weekends a year. Echo has been on a few pheasant hunts and is hunting great. She runs such big, beautiful patterns that she is a joy just to watch. She has  held some beautiful points while out in the field hunting pheasants. We hope to get some time off this year so we can finish up her Hunt Tests. We are not sure if we will go past JH with Echo. Our original plan was to get to the MH Test level as it looks good on paper but we probably will not have the time to train her and she is an important member of the family so we will not send her off. Either way we believe it is far more important to have the skills of hunting wild birds to pass on to the next generation and be a "wild bird hunting master" than a pen-raised "Master Hunter".Sherman's first time in the field was at 5 months old. It was a learning experience at that time and he caught on very quickly. His first and only training session was on chukar. He pointed staunchly and retrieved to hand. He went on his first club hunting trip at 12 months old. He found, pointed and retrieved every bird and brought them back to us. At 13 months old, he went on his first wild pheasant trip. He quickly learned that was a whole new ball-game. The birds were fast and even smelled differently. They did not flush like club birds so Sherman had to track them. He was fabulous! He even found and pointed a bird that had been wing-shot by two hunters with highly trained dogs and they in turn were able to bag him. Sherman also retrieved every bird to hand. On his second hunting trip, he and Rooster had the joy of hunting the Grey Lodge Wildlife Refuge. It is heavily covered and most of the birds are tucked in tight within the tule-filled marshland. He and Rooster worked very well and independently together. Rooster would work one end and Sherman would go to the end of the ditches and trap the birds. They pointed a dozen wild birds together. Sherman's owner Khambee was in shock that his puppy could be this great in the field without training. We are so happy with this wonderful young boy that totally inbodies the true meaning of a dual-purpose dog. We will try to find the time to achieve his tracking, water and NAVHDA titles. Senior Hunter should be a snap.    In the off-season our dogs enjoy hiking and backpacking in the Sierra Nevada's of California. |
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