Weimaraner
 This
was the gundog of the German aristocracy at the end of the 19th
century and was developed as a breed in the German State of Weirmar at the
behest of the Grand Duke Karl of Saxe-Weimar-Eistenbach.
The
theory behind the dog’s grey colouring is that black dogs, constantly bred will
produce grey pups. The Weimaraner is a dog of the subtlest colour grey, giving
rise to the nickname of ‘grey ghost.’ The most likely ancestry
of the black dogs used for breeding this dog is the black, St.
Hubert’s hound that was bred by Benedictine monks from about the 9th
century.
When first
introduced to the United Kingdom the Weimaraner the claims that this was the
perfect gundog were short-lived as trainers began to realise that they were slow
and difficult to train. Like many breeds taken out of their natural environment
this is understandable. Over the years many good bloodlines have been
established in Ireland and the popularity of the dog there is now at an all time
high.
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European
Gundogs