Greman Wirehair for a coyote dog

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Dale

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I have a 5 year old female that is very sharp anything that isn't a dog with with fur is in trouble if i'm not watching.She is [beeep] on cats ,our goat,calves you name it,I was thinking of getting rid of her.Then started thinking maybe she I could use her for coyotes any thoughts?
 
Dale, it sounds like she's a natural for hunting.

I know it's hard to keep Buster off the cats & chickens, but sometimes that's why good hunting dogs have a good kennel. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Give her a try & take her out several times until she figures out what you want her to do. She'll pick it up soon enough, I'm guessing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
If you don't have one, get an e-collar(shock collar) and train her to ALWAYS come to you when you hit the tone button.
The calf chasing should come to a screeching halt when you "stimulate" her as soon as she starts after one. It doesn't take long to break a dog from chasing the stuff you don't want it to when you have an e-collar to reinforce "NO".
I was thinking about crossing my Airedale with a German Wirehair to get a more leggy dog for coyotes, but had her spayed Friday so that's out.
Good luck with the GWP, sounds like she'd be good after you modify her prey drive a bit.
 
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She will climb out of her kennel if there is no top on it.She is a super Bird dog I hunt lots of chukers and quail in the fall and winter with her.She dont bother live stock at all when we are bird hunting
 
My older Drahthaar will run the heck out of coyotes if I let her. As far as critter sharpness, she has countless coons & other nuisance'vermin under her belt. She will trail, blood track and engage if I'd let her, but I don't have a gps collar to find her and there is too much private property to turn a dog out on a track here. She found a wounded coyote for me, via blood trail (.17 rem splash), which was recovered and has kicked two coyote butts on our property so far.

* I always forget about the fox' that she's tracked/ran and brought back to suprise me with!
 
Willis Kent a caller/trapper in MT used wirehairs for many year. He wrote several articles in TPC magazine about his decoy dogs back in the mid 80's. I was needing a trap line dog so I bought a wirehair pup. She turned into a great all round dog. Treeing squirrels and cats, retrieving any thing you sent her after. She would even retrieve coyotes when she was younger. As she got older she said the heck with that, she was just content shaking and dragging around a dead coyote. Which BTW would bring just about any coyote on the run if they saw her doing that!

She was great at trailing "any" wounded game, she wouldn't chase deer, antelope, or any livestock.......unless there was a blood trail. I used her to find quite a few wounded big game animals for different hunters.

She also had her bad points when calling..........she was way too aggressive. She would run a coyote plumb out of the country. So I made her sit by my side when I was calling. She spotted many many coyotes coming in on either side of me or behind me which I never would have seen.

She would also break at a shot, causing me to loose a second coyote or a second shot. Later I just carried a big trap drag on a rope when I made a stand. If she broke she would get hung up at the first bunch of brush she went by and she would fight the rope. Which also would bring coyotes in for a closer look.

Sorry for the long post, but it could have been a lot longer. LOL The stories I could tell with all the hunts I did with her................and my chocolate lab which was my next dog after the wirehair was gone.

Having a dog sure makes thing interesting!
 
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the orginal lines of German Drathaars were used as boar and bear dogs in Europe as well as bird dogs.

I think they would do just fine.

Tim
 
Thanks guys im going to try her this should be interesting, shes a great dog just been hard on my small livestock.She will track a wounded chucker til she finds it.I will have to let you know.
 
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