Anyone else with vizlsa's/HPR's General Chat

Do your dogs 'stalk'? By this I mean 'cat like'?! Sika, if she wants to play with Jago or sees something that looks like fair game to her, she slouches down to the ground and pounces like a cat!! I wondered if it was a breed type thing or yet another unique 'Sikaness'!!!

What like this....




or this.....



I should admit that in the first picture he is stalking his ball and the second one a plastic juice bottle.

Yes my Vizsla does this....I have been told it is a breed thing.

Lovely pics Maxine ;0)

Yeah think quite a few HPRs do that not just vizzies.

My Malamute learned to stalk from a GSP!



The down and wait ...



The pounce!

Flynn will naturally stalk when he's picked up a scent and gone on point but he never pounces (unless it's a mousey but then he doesnt stalk, just snuffles around in the grass!)




Both of these were on pheasant.

Another cat/bird/inscect/anything that moves stalker here, too.

Love the vizzie and dally photo
I should find some of our pointing pics

On grouse in scotland see more piccies hear
http://s734.photobucket.com/albums/ww344/SidandBertie/Scotland%20AUG%202010/



On pheasant
And must stop but heres one more you can see what he's stalking!

Awesome pics nddogs :0)

Fantastic ha ha! Sika crouches right down so her belly is only *just* off the ground with her head down between her front paws! Great photos

my munsterlander stalks a fair bit, not as gracefully as the viz and gsp on here though . Pigeons and crows are her favourite thing to stalk.

My GWP does it to. She pounces on mice and eats them.

She bounces through the heather like a springer spaniel.

Wow, I cant stop looking at your dogs knackers! I know that sounds really wrong but they are quite novel to me as my dogs dont have any (but Flynn did have a lovely pair, not for very long though bless him!)

Bwah ha ha ha ha!

I was told the same thing by an HPR trainer about Wire Vizsla's too. Apparently it's one of the issues with the Vizsla's in particular. When working them on the moors they have more of a tendency to stalk rather than run out, fast and wide. It's certainly true of Oscar, once he's flush a grouse he thinks there's going to be one behind ever piece of heather!

yep they certainly still have them, you can't miss them really. We have four dogs - three entire and the one with no nuts is the boss he's also the smallest but the oldest.

Yeah we've found this a bit with our viz to - I think they are quite cautious.

Like the munsti