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Forest

How and where you prepare your dog has a significance for how the end product becomes for forest hunting. The jagdterrier and Münsterländer learn quickly and adapt depending on the terrain. When I prepare my hunting dogs for hunting “hoof game” I do it alone or occasionally with one other person. The less people the better. This is because the dog needs to learn to search independently for game. When something gets shot for the dog, I want him to return to me and not stay with the dead prey. – Sure, it can “claim it” a bit, but after that he is to quickly return to me. Then the hunting will be more efficient.

German jagdterrier
If you want to have a short driver with wider search and sometimes even longer drive times you can prepare your dog in terrains where there are few animals and which are widely dispersed. In that way the dog learns that it’s necessary to search further in able to find any game. Slowly you go into the terrain against the wind and give the dog time to search. When the dog is out of sight or if you see that it is following an interesting scent of a track, you just stay and wait until the dog returns. Just as you did when you made the dog accustomed in the forest. If the dog always find you in the back trace it gets more confident to search out longer and can then go through more terrain.

If you on the other hand want to have a smaller search and sometimes even shorter drive times you can prepare you dog in terrains with a lot of game. The dog learns to find the game without a big effort and also that if you stop the drive early it pays of to return to his handler because there are more game to hunt. The jagdterrier and münsterländer rarely search beyond a couple of hundred meters, but when they have picked up a fresh trace they can follow it for a considerably longer time and that’s why the “barking” can start from further away from you.

In other parts of Europe the German jadterrier is used almost exclusively as a flushing dog. However, the search is a bit longer than under the shotgun which is the real definition for a flushing dog. Instead of first preparing them for hunting above the land they prepare them for hunting underground first. The dogs gets customized on direct contact and a lot of action so when they starts hunting above land they loose interest quickly when the game is too far away. Sometimes it’s enough that the game is out of sight for the dog to stop and return to his handler.