rkappes wrote:Good lookin' pup! Very interesting dogs. How are they around kids, strangers, etc....?
My little jagd is a great family dog; she gets along with the setters, is very tolerant of little kids ( she wasn't raised with any kids, but we get occasional visits from them), and in the evening can't snuggle herself close enough to us. She barks at anyone coming on our property, but isn't at all yappy. On the chain gang at trials she's mostly okay but once in a while she'll take exception to an individual who wanders into our space.
Based on having this dog for several years, I would never ever suggest that a jagd be kept as a town or suburban dog. Ours needs a ton of exercise and the ability to hunt for hours every day or she gets nutty - like a couple JRTs on crack. Any thing with fur on it is gonna die if she roots it out. As nice as she is with people, when fur is involved, it's like a switch is flipped, look out. She self-hunts rabbits, muskrats, possums, coons, groundhogs, and assorted rodents and squirrels here. We tried to keep a barn cat, but that did not work at all. I have to put the jagd up if I want to work the big dogs on birds, until the birds are recalled; pen birds are easy pickin's.
In my area it seems like there's a growing interest in Jagds among birddoggers.