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Brody, the Weimaraner !
The Weimaraner (/ˈwaɪmərɑːnər/ WY-mər-ah-nər) is a large dog that was originally bred as a hunting dog in the early 19th century. Early Weimaraners were used by royalty for hunting large game such as boar, bear, and deer. As the popularity of hunting large game began to decline, Weimaraners were used for hunting smaller animals like fowl, rabbits, and foxes.
The name comes from the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl August, whose court, located in the city of Weimar (now in the state of Thuringia in modern-day Germany), enjoyed hunting. The Weimaraner is an all-purpose gun dog, and possesses traits such as speed, stamina, great sense of smell, great eyes, courage, and intelligence. The breed is sometimes referred to as the “grey ghost” of the dog world because of its ghostly coat and eye color along with its stealthy hunting style.
History
The Weimaraner was kept in the Weimar court in the 19th century and carried a good deal of Leithound ancestry. Two theories propose that they descended from the Chien-gris, or from the St. Hubert hound, whose descendant is the bloodhound. In the beginning, Germany’s Grand Duke Karl August used the Weimaraner to hunt big game like wolves, bears, and boar, but as Europe’s number of big game animals decreased, the Weimaraner turned into a point-and-retrieve hunter of small game.[7] The breed arrived to America in the late 1920s, and its popularity increased in the 1950s, largely because of celebrities like Grace Kelly, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Dick Clark. The famous artist and photographer William Wegman increased the breed’s popularity even more with his world-famous Weimaraner portraits and video segments.
