What is ?Versatile? and what is ?All Around? hunting dog?
From NAVHDA website ( http://www.navhda.org ):
The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association defines versatility as "the dog that is bred and trained to dependably hunt and point game, to retrieve on both land and water, and to track wounded game on both land and water."
~ NAVHDA Aims, Programs, Test Rules
Is that what most of us define as good ?All Around? dog? If it is then here is list of breeds recognized by NAVHDA as Versatile:
BI ? Bracco Italiano
BA - Braque D?auvergne
BB - Braque Bu Bourbonnais
BF ? Braque Francais
BS ? Brittany
CF - Cesky Fousek
ES ? English Setter
FP ? French Spaniel
GL ? German Longhaired Pointer
GS ? German Shorthaired Pointer
GW ? German Wirehaired Pointer
GO ? Gordon Setter
IR ? Irish Red & White Setter
IS ? Irish Setter
LM ? Large Munsterlander
PT ? Pointer
PO ? Portuguese Pointer
PP ? Pudelpointer
SH ? Slovensky Hrubosrsty Stavac
SM ? Small Munsterlander
SP ? Spinone
ST ? Stichelhaar
VI ? Vizsla
WM ? Weimarainer
GR ? Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
WV ? Wirehaired Vizsla
~ NAVHDA Aims, Programs, Test Rules
Please not that there are NO retrievers included in that list.
Those breeds were created to be VERSATILE.
Versatile dog is asked to do more than one thing. Probably, specialized breeds will do things a little better than versatile (i.e. Labradors will be better in the retriever trials, English Pointers will be better in horseback quail trials), but versatile dogs will do it all.
Example: DD (Deutch Drahthaar) was created by cross breading Stichelhaar, Pudelpointer, Griffon, and the Deutsch-Kurzhaar ( http://www.vdd-gna.org/history.htm ).
Please not that I?m not saying German Wirehaired Pointer which evolved from DD. Here is article http://www.drahthaar.com/articles/different.html
Another example: Deutsch-Kurzhaar (known here as German Shorthaired Pointer one of the most popular hunting breeds). To create this breed ? ? hunter-dog breeders used available descendants of the Spanish Pointer (German Bird Dogs), certain German tracking hounds, the English Foxhound, and eventually the English Pointer ??. (info from http://www.nadkc.org/pages/clubinfo.htm)
Is there something else what defines ?All Around? hunting dog?
What do you think?
From NAVHDA website ( http://www.navhda.org ):
The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association defines versatility as "the dog that is bred and trained to dependably hunt and point game, to retrieve on both land and water, and to track wounded game on both land and water."
~ NAVHDA Aims, Programs, Test Rules
Is that what most of us define as good ?All Around? dog? If it is then here is list of breeds recognized by NAVHDA as Versatile:
BI ? Bracco Italiano
BA - Braque D?auvergne
BB - Braque Bu Bourbonnais
BF ? Braque Francais
BS ? Brittany
CF - Cesky Fousek
ES ? English Setter
FP ? French Spaniel
GL ? German Longhaired Pointer
GS ? German Shorthaired Pointer
GW ? German Wirehaired Pointer
GO ? Gordon Setter
IR ? Irish Red & White Setter
IS ? Irish Setter
LM ? Large Munsterlander
PT ? Pointer
PO ? Portuguese Pointer
PP ? Pudelpointer
SH ? Slovensky Hrubosrsty Stavac
SM ? Small Munsterlander
SP ? Spinone
ST ? Stichelhaar
VI ? Vizsla
WM ? Weimarainer
GR ? Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
WV ? Wirehaired Vizsla
~ NAVHDA Aims, Programs, Test Rules
Please not that there are NO retrievers included in that list.
Those breeds were created to be VERSATILE.
Versatile dog is asked to do more than one thing. Probably, specialized breeds will do things a little better than versatile (i.e. Labradors will be better in the retriever trials, English Pointers will be better in horseback quail trials), but versatile dogs will do it all.
Example: DD (Deutch Drahthaar) was created by cross breading Stichelhaar, Pudelpointer, Griffon, and the Deutsch-Kurzhaar ( http://www.vdd-gna.org/history.htm ).
Please not that I?m not saying German Wirehaired Pointer which evolved from DD. Here is article http://www.drahthaar.com/articles/different.html
Another example: Deutsch-Kurzhaar (known here as German Shorthaired Pointer one of the most popular hunting breeds). To create this breed ? ? hunter-dog breeders used available descendants of the Spanish Pointer (German Bird Dogs), certain German tracking hounds, the English Foxhound, and eventually the English Pointer ??. (info from http://www.nadkc.org/pages/clubinfo.htm)
Is there something else what defines ?All Around? hunting dog?
What do you think?