Things To Do With Your GSP.
Clubs to Join:
Montana German Shorthaired Pointer Club:
http://www.montanagspc.org/
The Montana German Shorthaired Pointer Club welcomes all owners, breeders of pointing, hunting and sporting dogs to join us. Our club is comprised of a wide variety of members with many interests. However, we all enjoy the opportunities to get together and work with pointing dogs.
MT GSPC is AKC approved to conduct Hunt Test and Field Trails. The club hosts two events per year, the third weekend in April and August. The club is always in need of volunteers for the events.
Montana Sharptail, NORTH AMERICAN VERSATILE HUNTING DOG ASSOCIATION (NAVHDA)
http://www.montanasharptail.com/
The Montana Sharptail Chapter of NAVHDA exists to promote education in the training, care and responsible breeding of the "Versatile Hunting Dog." The chapter has been created to serve Montana and its bordering states and provinces. Membership will provide opportunities to train, test and volunteer with hunting dog enthusiasts that range from experienced trainers to first-time puppy owners. As a new chapter of the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association, several different membership opportunities exist. MT Sharptail will be conducting annual training days starting in April, 2011. Please their website for details.
North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association;
International Chapter
http://www.navhda.org/
The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association is a legally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering, improving, promoting, and protecting the versatile hunting dog in North America.
Underlying these aims is the desire to serve the interests of game conservation, prevention of cruelty to animals, and the gun dog hunter by helping the hunter to train his dog to work before and after the shot, on land and in water.
NAVHDA is an excellent complement to the activities of sporting dog breed clubs and field trial organizations. It was created to supplement the activities of those clubs by providing a proven, standard method of evaluating the performance of all versatile hunting dogs, consistent with North American hunting practices, regardless of breed.
Breeder Referrals: Below are referrals to kennels we know and may have purchased a dog from. Please consider purchasing a puppy form one of their kennels. You will need to cut and past the web address into your browser as I haven't figured out how to add links yet to the webpage.
http://www.lazyheartskennel.com/ Owner Nancy Lane, Glen Dive, MT
http://www.deutsch-kurzhaar.ro/ Donau Wirbeln Kennel, owner Catrinel "Cati" Pauna, Romania. Breeder of 100% Hege-Haus dogs. Hege-Haus is the 2nd oldest GSP "Deutsch-Kurzhaar," kennel in Germany.
