Deutscher Wachtelhund North America, Inc

Wachtelhund Testimonial

(The following is a recent E-mail sent from Kraig Glazier to the breeder of his Wachtelhund, Chad Richardson. Both work as Wildlife Services Control Officers for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Basically they take care of problem animals.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Kraig Glazier
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 11:50 AM
To: Chad Richardson
Subject: Wachtels

             Allie Vom Flinthills (Benelli)

    Well Chad I hate to say it, BUT I will... those Wachtelhunds do all right next to a lab.  My little Benelli is unbelievable!!!  You and I know that you only get out of your dog what you put into it, but my god I don't believe I have even touched her potential.  She is so smart!  The kennel issue.  She only stays in the kennel because I ask her to.  She can get out any moment she so desires. She has the most natural hunting desire of any dog, or breed I have known.  She absolutely has the kill her prey instinct.  What is the German word for that? (Wurger)

    Bird hunting she is great.  I guided some pheasant hunters last year and she ran circles around their labs in thick brush in the river bottoms.  The only thing I need to work on her is patients.  When they missed too many times she would hunt harder and give tongue louder   and run wider in frustration. We hunted a lot of Montana's big sky country for huns and sharptail. She has got an excellent nose.  She only got about 40 days of waterfowl hunting last year, because of all the other hunting.  Water no problem, but her size (45 pounds) is smaller and large geese swimming is a struggle, but she gets it done.  We dry land hunted a lot, and she is just great for hunting out of an eliminator.

    Running fur game she is very fast.  We have ran some raccoons and she gives great tongue and kills, she is good on mountain lions, but she is a tree climber and that isn't a good thing.   I have really worked on her distance for bird hunting and this year running a lion she didn't want to leave very far.  It was a tough lion, but I don't know.  I have been very cautious about hunting coyotes and wolves with her.  Foxes no problem.  I took her out calling and denning this year and was I surprised.  We never got into a fight with older ones, and that is what scares me.  She needs to make it through a couple and then she will have it all figured out.  She would give tongue while I called and did everything I like in a decoy dog plus some.  When we found some dens she went nuts.  She went down the hole and started killing pups. I couldn't get her to come out until she killed all of them.  Then I took her out with my Airedale on a hole and both dogs went down the hole together.  They were older pups, just about ready to leave the hole for good, and she out worked that Airedale.  She would fight them until she could grab them and then yard them out of the hole.  Once there was more room to work she had no problem going for the throat.  This is very hard to find in a dog!!

    She is very important as a family dog, which is tough when you hunt things that have teeth instead of beaks.

   Now the real issue. How do I get another one?  Give me details. One of the trappers here has a top notch lab bitch that just had puppies.  I am looking for another dog, but I want another Wachtelhund.

Kraig