Hi, and welcome to the Glencuan Pointers blog site. While there are references to other breeds contained in the material on this site this is unashamedly a site for the working pointer enthusiast. I don’t really see the need to call them working pointers as the pointer is a working breed anyway but I just want to let potential readers know what they may be in for.
When I embarked on the journey into the history of training and working pointer dogs I had much more access to grouse than I do now and while I have a method that appears to work for me it is more from circumstances than desire. I do have access to grouse in Yorkshire but for those who haven’t read any papers recently there’s a credit crunch on and it affects potential ferry customers as much as anybody else.
I’m trying to raise the profile of the pointer in general and as an all round working dog in particular. I also hope I can give some encouragement to those who like myself desire a well-trained dog without access to the once obligatory grouse moor.
Banner Photo.
“The Danish Mafia.” Oksby Basso points while his half brother Glencuan Mist backs and their Dad Toften’s Chris watches impatiently. Photo Ross O’Neile.
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Dalton the Captain, Getty and O’Neile,
Lynch and Kieran_
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
Apologies to The Bard.
I have got the grandson of oksby basso,lovely dog,superb temprement and good pointer though have only been shooting with him once and he has had no proper training just came naturally.Would like to breed of him sometime.
There is no doubt that Basso and his sire Chris have added something to my kennel. Basso in particular is engineered to be just about the most perfectly balanced running machine and Chris is the most complete pointing shooting dog (Not bad in competition either) that I have ever owned but credit for that must go to a large extent to how he was worked in Denmark. However Bess played a part in the recipe too and when people like you talk about Basso being involved in the production of natural workers I can’t help but think that she would have had a part in that and than of course Bella would add something to the mix as well. I presume Duke was the sire of your dog. Any pictures you would care to share?
great photos I particularly like Coco only saw this coloring once before on a pointer bred by Tony Kieran in Co. Mayo