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German Wirehaired Pointer Did You Know?
- The coat of the German Wirehaired Pointer is weather-resistant in every sense of the term,
and it is to large extent water-repellent. It is straight, harsh, wiry,
and quite flat-lying. One and one half to two inches in length, it is long
enough to shield the body from rough cover, yet not so long as to hide the
outline.
- The German Wirehaired Pointer was imported into the United States in the 1920's and admitted
into AKC's stud book in 1959.
- Most of the early wirehaired Pointers represented a combination of Griffon,
Stichelhaar, Pudelpointer, and German Shorthair. The Pudelpointer was a
cross between a Poodle dog and an English Pointer bitch, while the Griffon
and the Stichelhaar were composed of Pointer, Foxhound, Pudelpointer, and
a Polish Water dog. Thus, it is easy to appreciate the different hunting
skills incorporated in the wirehaired Pointers of a century or more ago.
- The German Wirehaired Pointer was first bred as a result of increased popularity in hunting
in order to accommodate demand for new breeds.
- The German Wirehaired Pointer works equally well in land and water, in part due to the unique
coat.
- The coat of the German Wirehaired Pointer, the breed's most distinctive feature, is dense
enough in the water to protect against harsh cold, but it sheds in the summer
to the point of veritable invisibility.
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