Farewell to My Best Friend

The way many of us remember Jinny.  Photo courtesy of Chuck Curtis

Virginia Alexander, Reiteralm Weimaraners 06/09/1928 – 05/19/2011 Jinny, you always were a woman of action, it was time to go and you were gone – before I could say goodbye. The last card we sent with pictures of your dogs will get there a day too late, but my heart knows you realize just how [...]

Importing a German Weimaraner

Why buy a German Weimaraner? There are many reasons to import a German Weimaraner. I imported my own dogs because I enjoy the friendship of my German breeder acquaintances, I want the kind of dog the Germans breed for and since I like the longhaired variety, I wanted to expand the gene pool in the [...]

The Slovenský Hrubosrstý Stavač

Grey (Aucassin Momo at Galody).  Photo by Joanna Silverman

(Or Slovakian Rough Haired Pointer, to you and me) “It’s a what?”, is usually the response I get when I tell someone what breed my dog is. And that’s when I’ve given them the English translation. When they guess, they come up with an Irish Wolfhound as a suggestion. Which would be about right for [...]

JW’s One Year Anniversary

Wow, we’ve been up for a whole year now! And, as you can see, I’ve been busy behind the scenes sprucing the site up. I still have a few minor technical issues to work out, so please excuse anything strange you may see. In the mean time, why not participate in some of the forums? [...]

If My Weims Had Thumbs*…

…they’d be writing letters to Santa. (*This is just one of our long time jokes.  If our Weims had thumbs, they’d be opening up the refrigerator and cupboards stealing food and toys… oh wait, they already do this! We’re just lucky our Weims only have brains – no thumbs! Phew!) In any case, here are [...]