Originally Posted By: Sunil
This is off-topic, but since its Shorty's dog...

My buddy got a german short hair and she was always high strung; in this case, the dog had no discipline and probably heard voices in its head. Her name is Sadie.

The same friend had a house on High Point Lake in PA. A bunch of us were at his house which was about 1/8 mile up a gradual hill from the lake shore. My wife and I and our dog walked down to the shore and were hanging out. There was a row boat with three dudes fishing about 400 yards off shore. Sadie ending up showing up at the shoreline and proceeded to enter the water and swim towards the guys in the boat. The whole time Sadie was within 50' of the shore, I was yelling at her to come back, yet as I indicated before, she listened to no one.

She reached the row boat of fishermen and proceeded to swim circles around them, literally. She flanked them by about a 15' radius making it very hard for the fishermen to continue fishing.

One fisherman stood up in the boat, cupped his hands around his mouth, and bellowed out to me "call your dog!"

I put my beer down, cupped my hands around my mouth, and bellowed back "that's not my dog!"

In the end, Sadie circled these guys for about 15 minutes. I really thought the dog was going to die. I'm pretty sure she managed to bark the entire time she circled the poor fishermen.

My buddy had rode down on his quad and called out to the dog, but she payed no heed. Finally, she must have realized she couldn't swim forever and came into shore.

Don't get me wrong though, no knock on German Shorhairs. This dog, Sadie, just was not all there, and when you mentioned the breed, it reminded of the story.


All the bird dogs we've had were high strung and not the brightest. I'll take a mutt anyday!

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.