Posts tagged "Weimaraners"

Cute Pet Name: Hector

Location: Virginia

Age: 4

Dog Breed: Weimaraner

Favorite Toys: Squeaky ball

Favorite Treat: Cheese and carrots.

Likes: Sleeping, chasing a ball, digging, going to the dog park.

Dislikes: Baths and nail trims.

Fun Fact: Hector likes to sleep belly-up

Weird Quirks: He likes to sit upright on the couch like his owners do.

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Billie Holiday. B.B. King. Shot-Z the Weimaraner. These are just some of the names of the finest blues singers we've ever known. Holiday famously struggled with drug addiction, King with the fight against diabetes, and Shot-Z probably lost a Milk-Bone or two at some point, but that's what the blues are about: living with hard times.

Shot-Z, in fact, can belt out the sad-sack wail like the best of 'em the very moment she hears the sound of a harmonica, her owner's obvious instrument of choice.

Strange fruit, indeed.

Name: Gracie

Location: Ridgefield, N.J.

Age: 7

Breed: Weimaraner

Favorite Treat: Sweet potatoes, apples and any food children drop on the floor, especially cheese.

Favorite Toy: Her octopus and starfish, children's stuffed animals and other people's freshly worn socks.

Likes: Napping, and alone time with her owners.

Dislikes: Interacting with her little "siblings," Benjamin (2 years) and Karly Rose (1 year).

Fun Fact: Gracie knows the sound of her owners' cars from half a mile away and runs to the window when she hears them.

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With so many puppy videos and so little time, we've gone the extra mile and begun cataloging some of the finest YouTube offerings, separating each collection by breed in a feature called Puppy Party!

Today's round-up features the wonderful Weimaraner!

Anna and I spent Thanksgiving on Cape Cod at her older sister Alicia's house. Unlike their younger sister, Emily -- who looks after a pair of rescue dogs with her fiance Dave -- Alicia and her husband Hal have a pair of Weimaraners, of whom they are very fond.

"We grew up with springer spaniels, and I've always loved hunting dogs," Alicia says. "They're great family dogs, and they tend to be good to their people."

The advantage of purebreds is that you have a good idea of what their sizes and temperaments will be as they get older, Alicia explains, and Weimaraners in particular are good-natured, athletic dogs. "It had nothing to do with William Wegman," Hal asserts, referencing the famous Massachusetts photographer with a proclivity for dressing up his Weimaraners in women's clothing.

Still, they wanted to steer clear of profit-minded breeders, and to meet their pup's parents if possible. So when Alicia heard that a man in her father's neighborhood had bred puppies for his own kids -- and had an extra -- she figured it was the perfect arrangement.