Our dog Dottie is just over 2. She is my 4th GSP. I have loved all of my dogs but this one has completely stolen my family’s heart. She is an absolute princess around our house but a beast in the field. She can go all day a does everything you would ever want as a chukar or pheasant hunter. She also is the best inside home dog you would ever want. I wish I had 2 more of her right now. Absolutely recommend Cheryl as a breeder!!

I have owned a Idaho hunting dog for almost 2 years. She is a fantastic family dog, great hunting companion an incredible retriever. Cheryl was very easy to deal with and is cautious about the homes her dogs are going into. As a person that has owned 4 GSP’s I can tell you these dogs are very easy for the first time GSP owner.

We worked with Cheryl at Idaho Hunting Dogs for over a year as we set up and waited for the breeding of our choice. The entire experience was great. She was more than eager and very prepared to answer all of our questions. The manner in which the dogs and pups were cared for was absolutely superb.

Our 7 month old GSP, Pepper, shows strong hunting characteristics and has been the easiest pup to train that I have worked with. As a veterinarian with over 30 years of professional experience I feel qualified to rate this kennel as top rate.

I’ve gotten three German Shorthaired Pointers from IHD so far, first one 16 years ago, and 2 in the past 2 years. Everywhere I go everyone can’t believe how gorgeous, sweet, smart, and well bred they are. I have never found better dogs, or people to get my dogs from. True hunting genes, and these dogs can hunt!!! Cheryl is the best!!! Always there for advice, or a shoulder to cry on when the time comes. Definitely recommend her every time!!!!

Idaho Hunting Dogs is the best place to get your next forever friend and hunting partner. Their quality of pups comes from great breeding stock. Each dog is given love and great care, its not just a business, they are part of her family. We’ve relied on Cheryl’s perfect pups for over 12 years. To show you how much we value her hunting dogs, we drive from Las Vegas to not only pick them out, but to enjoy her company and hospitality!

I highly recommend everyone who is looking for a German Shorthair Pointer to see for themselves the lengths they go to, making sure these dogs only go to homes that will care for them properly.

We just got Rosey from the August 2018 litter AND Rory from the December 2018 litter. We couldn’t be more pleased!

They are phenomenal in stature, demeanor, and attitude. Our vet was so impressed with them, she asked for the name and phone number of our breeder!

Approximately 14 years ago, after searching countless German Shorthair breeder’s, we chose to go with Mark and Cheryl owners of Idaho Hunting dogs. We chose them because their investment in breeding was deeper then making a buck, we felt a genuine love and passion for the dogs they bred. This was before the days of Facebook and the live feeds. But Cheryl and Mark kept us up to date, answered all questions and sent pictures as often as they could. Once our little one, Bretta was born, they continued to provide info on what to expect and how to blend Bretta into out family. Rather then flying out for our fur baby we chose to make the day drive because we had to meet these remarkable people. Bretta was an amazing dog. She was pointing and retrieving by six months. Followed by year’s of living and breathing to hunt. She also provided a missing piece to our family. Unfortunately, Bretta has since passed on. It was an easy decision as to where we would get our next Shorthair. We could have chose the next town just 30 minutes away to get our next Shorthair but we were excited to make the trip to again see these remarkable people. This July will be our 2nd year with our fur baby Bella. She is gorgeous, black and white ticked. She loves our kids and watches birds from our bed with great anticipation. Any questions we have Cheryl promptly answers. As long as she is breeding Shorthairs, we will always without a second thought, only purchase this great breed from Idaho Hunting dogs. Thank you for years of memories and years of love with our fur babies.

We have a 14 month old GSP from Cheryl at Idaho Hunting Dogs. She is very knowledgeable of GSPs having been in the business several decades, and has excellent breeding stock. Our pup Finn has excellent temperament, a fantastic desire to hunt and works well with us. We highly recommend Cheryl as a breeder. Her dogs are excellent.

This is our first legit hunting dog and IHD’s pedigree speaks for itself, but with Cheryl you get way more than that. She went above and beyond to keep us informed on our new pup through every stage. Our lil man came from Meg and Roscoe’s 2/8/19 litter. He is a fire ball to say the least. LOL. We feel blessed to have this handsome well bred, quality GSP as the newest addition to our family. I can’t wait to see him turn on in the field. Thank you Cheryl.

An outstanding experience! I found Idaho Hunting Dogs online along with several other GSP breeders. After spending some time on their site, talking with Cheryl and Mark and watching the live puppy cam, I knew this was the breeder I wanted to go with. Their adult dogs are beautiful and well taken care of. The pups are born and raised in their house. The result is a well adjusted pup to all kinds of noises, floor types and people. My pup is five months old now and we couldn’t be happier. He was pointing pheasants at four months old. A very professional experience! If your looking for a great German Shorthair Pointer pup, Idaho Hunting Dogs is the way to go!

We have had Roscoe for seven years and he is a great hunter and pet. Roscoe is our third Short Hair but the first we’ve had in the house – and he has adapted well. He does great in the field; lots of endurance, a good nose, and steady on point. We highly recommend Cheryl and Mark if you are looking for a good Short Hair Pointer.

Hi Cheryl, Just thought I would let you know how the little boy did this weekend. I could not be any happier with his performance in the field. He did a wonderful job of staying at a reasonable distance, has a great nose and had some very fine points. We hunted quail and between the two of us hunting we shot 30 birds in two days, most of which were over Matty’s points. He did a great job pointing entire coveys and single birds as well as the pheasant we ran into. He also hunted with another dog and they worked very well together. I was surprised to see him actually back Charlie a couple of times and he didn’t flush any of the birds Charlie pointed. We still have a bit of work to do on his retrieves but he showed some good signs of retrieval after he followed Charlie on a retrieve. Sunday he actually got in the brush and retrieved a bird we could have never gotten without him. Matty never broke and chased birds after his points and did a great job of re-pointing a couple of singles after the covey flushed.  All in all I think we have a real stud on our hands here. It was a really special and neat experience to hunt with him and have him do so well on his seven-month birthday. I have plenty of pictures of him and the birds and I will send copies as soon as I have them developed.  Cheryl, thank you so much for this great pup. He is all I could have expected in a young dog and he will be a wonderful hunting companion for a lot of years to come!  I hope all is well and I hope to hear from you soon.

Cheryl, Just wanted to give a shout out and let you know that Justice is doing very well as a Narcotic Detection dog. At 6 months old, she has about 8 month of training left but she is already beating the certified detection dogs. Thanks again for breeding such wonderful pups. Please let me know when you intend to have another litter because Justice has proven you a reliable and professional breeder. Thanks again.

Hi Cheryl, I named him “Leupold” Leo for short, he is the smartest little guy I’ve ever seen. I’ve been working him on obedience and he is amazing. I heard stories from people that Shorthairs are hard headed and hard to train, but Leo is anything but. He is perfect and is going to make a excellent gun dog. I’m so excited because this is my first time training a dog, and it is going perfect. His parent must be awesome! Thanks for keeping in touch… When he gets older I will take pictures of him hunting and email them to you. Leo is awesome he’s my baby boy bird hunter. We had a great season lots of great points and flushes, and awesome retrieves. Leo loves to go swimming, so I’m working on water retrieves with him now that the water is warming up. Just like everything, he is taking to it like a duck to water.

Hello Cheryl!  Just wanted to drop you a line and some pictures of our wonderful pups! Sadie is absolutely wonderful. Extremely smart and obedient. She has all the basic commands down pat, and we’ll start table work with her in the next month or so. No aversion to water at all as she was going crazy trying to get in the hot tub with us last night! We’ll wait for a little warmer weather before taking her for a swim though. We took both dogs to a spot loaded with wild bird scent, and they both proved to have exceptional noses. Mitzy saw her first pheasant last week while walking with Dick, and he said she was extremely excited about it. We’re really looking forward to working with these dogs on a hunt. Both dogs get to spend nearly every day together, and are great friends. They keep our 5yr old 130lb Rottweiler “Baron” busy all day! As you can see in the pic’s. they all get along extremely well. Sadie loves to stand up on Baron’s back to get a better view of things. Anyway, hope all goes well at your kennel, and if you ever need a reference in our area, feel free to use us.  Thanks again for 2 terrific pets!

Cheryl, Just thought I’d update you on Sophie. She is now in her third week of training. Andrew and I spent all day today (well actually every Saturday) watching her work, and being trained ourselves. She is doing great, she is a much better student than some of the other dogs. Actually most of the other dogs are Labs, it’s a California thing. They train them for dual purpose i.e. upland game and waterfowl. I have to say some of them are very hard headed and need lots of correction. I on the other hand have an upland dog that will work waterfowl. You should see her retrieve, makes no difference to her land or water. The best part about Sophie is that she needs minimal correction, when training, she really is a quick learner. In just two more weeks I will be shooting birds over her, and I think in three more months I’ll have a super gun dog. After her training is concluded I’m thinking of entering her in some AKC hunt tests for pointing breeds. I really think she could work up to the master hunter title without too much of a problem. To your credit everyone who has seen her work, points out that she is very well bred. Again thank you for a very wonderful pet and hunting companion. I’ll keep you updated.

HI Cheryl, Sorry it’s take so long to let you know how Pearl is doing. I don’t have pictures yet but (my brother has the camera) this last February, Pearl hunted around 110 quail and 40 pheasants. Her nose is outstanding I hate to admit it but she’s better at 14 months than my last GSP at 7 years. Thanks again! 

Dear Cheryl,  I wanted to contact you to let you know how well our GSP Grady is doing – from Molly’s litter 2 years ago. She is absolutely awesome. She is a very close part of our family in every way. For starters – she is gorgeous. It never ceases to amaze me how many compliments we get when we go anywhere as to what a beautiful dog she is. Grady is petite under 50 pounds and has been a wonderful house dog. Her temperament is fabulous, our 7 and 8 year old roll around with her and play with her everyday and she loves to play and can be very protective of our home. When taken into the field, she transforms from a house dog to a dutiful hunter, very obedient, tremendous natural ability, great nose, great retriever and an energy level to hunt for 3-4 hours solid – and perhaps best of all she has a great personality. We take her everywhere and she has made a wonderful addition to our family. We are looking forward to breeding her perhaps next year. Just wanted to give you an update. Thanks.

Hi Cheryl, I just wanted to tell you that Heidi is doing very well. She has been retrieving doves. At first she watched the older dogs. And was a little hard mouth and didn’t want to give the bird up. But over a few days that all changed. And she finds the bird and brings it right back to Cel. When they are hunting she is very involved. She watches everything that is around her. Next Sat. is chuckar hunting so she will have a new bird to find. We believe she is going to be a excellent bird dog. And we love her. Last week we took them all camping so I got some nice pictures of her. So I’ll send some soon ok. Hope all is fine with you and the family. Take Care, and Thank you

Cheryl, He’s 1 now!! So handsome and such a devoted friend. He demands remarks of splendor from all that see him. His hunting abilities and lines are very apparent as he knows all sorts of neat tricks in the field and in the water. He leaps like a gazelle in the tall grass and charges the water like no dog I have ever seen in life on tv! Mister B is a true athlete and does it just for fun. Not even interested in yummy treats, just doing the trick and getting praise. He amazes me every day and is still very excited about lots of new things. The world is so wonderful to him. He is quit affectionate. So I stumbled across a local agility school in North Salem NY. http://www.contactagility.org

I’ve met a few Viszla’s that perform there as well as some Portuguese Water Dogs. Mister B runs circles around them and does so much more so I am excited to get him involved and show off his skills. I’ll add some more champion titles to the line. I believe he is that good so I’ll give him the chance to prove it. It will be good for both of us. I am out of tricks to teach him and he would love the environment and opportunity to perform. He is spectacular and a textbook example of what a pointer should be, in my eyes at least. I’ve been telling lots of folks about Idaho Hunting Dogs so maybe I’ll see some relatives out east here soon enough. You breed the best.  Thanks Again

Cheryl and Mark, Thanks for all your quality care and effort – it really makes a person purchasing a dog feel good to know you and your husband are fine enthusiastic breeders. Hope you enjoyed our Christmas photo of Angus at 7 months old. He’s really beautiful. He’s extremely intelligent and is a joy every day and loved like crazy by my husband and I and our three boys. He gets his leash from the kitchen counter where we keep it and brings it to us and sits down and if we don’t get the message, he goes to the door with it.I tell him calmly, “no bark…quiet” and that if he continues to bark he will go in his crate. With that, he makes a little grumbling noise and stops barking. He picked out and carried away each of his five Christmas presents from everyone else presents under the tree. He spends quality quiet time on the couch every night with my husband and I for an hour or so before going to bed. When he’s ready for bed, he quietly gets up and leaves for his crate. He goes outside in our backyard and stands at the fence and barks every day to call his old yellow lab friend to come outside. The lab comes out and I guess Angus doesn’t understand why his friend just stands there quietly and doesn’t share his enthusiasm. If we don’t come right away to let Angus back inside from the backyard, a few minutes later we routinely hear the back doorbell ring. The boys always say, who’s at the door, then end up asking, “oh…it’s just Angus” Angus goes for many rides in the car and sits patiently and waits for us while we go in a store for a minute. You both have socialized the puppies so well that every time someone goes by the car, Angus wags his tail like he’s found his lost pal. I recently read, by the way, that it’s crucial at an early puppy age to have as much human bonding and closeness as possible in order to develop a happy adult dog that has had good early human trust and love experiences. Angus is so affectionate and happy all the time. Never has he shown any anger or aggression. When I go occasionally to get the boys at the High School, one of my sons will ask to take Angus on his leash to show him off. My son says everyone loves our pointer, especially the girls. Then, four or five boys pack into our car, with Angus ending up on their laps spread out. He’s been pointing since the first day we got him home from his plane ride. We’ve started taking him to some large open fields soon, and we’ve been reading books on hunting training. He has an exuberance and excitement in the field that we don’t see in him anywhere else. We’re very sure its from his fine hereditary hunting lines from both his mother and father’s side. We’ll be sure in the future to take some hunting pictures and send them on to you. On lead, he heels by my side like a prince, with paws kicking as he prances like a show dog making his run. He will go into a long sit-stay position and has the patience of a saint-dog until he gets the come command. Angus has been taught by my youngest son to shake. Whenever he deems it necessary to get something from him, he sits and automatically gives him his paw. He back talks regularly if he doesn’t like something, and has some work to do on that!!I have some pumpkin Halloween pictures to send to you, but that will come later. Hope this gives you an idea of what this puppy’s like. He’s a character to say the least. If we ever get another dog, it will be from you all. Have a great, peaceful holiday.

These next few are from ExecutiveBreeders.com:  How do you know your Breeder: Mark and Cheryl through a puppy I purchased from them.#2. Have you ever been to this kennel? Yes I have.#3. Can you describe the kennel? The kennel consisted of a very LARGE fenced in back yard with plenty of room to exercise and also had very nice housing. From what I could tell the dogs were raised inside and were put in the outside fence to exercise and go to the bathroom. It was kept very clean and seemed to be very safe as far as not being able to escape.#4. How old was the puppy/dog you purchased? The puppy I purchased was around 9 weeks when I picked her up.#5. Did you receive advise on how to care for this breed of dog? Yes, I was informed on how much to feed, when to feed, and what to feed. I was also given all the information on what shots she was given and what shots needed to be given and when to give them.#6. Did you get the registration papers and did you receive them in a timely manner? Yes I was given the AKC papers the day I picked the puppy up since the litter was already registered. I was also given help filling out the registration papers in my name to avoid any errors or delays.#7 Do you have any extra comments? FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!!! Mark and Cheryl are very dedicated in breeding a quality puppy. All potential buyers are screened before a puppy will be sold to them as these puppies are like children to them. Looking at the effort they put into breeding a puppy and the effort they put into being sure the puppies are placed in a good home it is obvious they are not puppy millers or back yard breeders. They have been very helpful with answering all my questions about both of my German Shorthaired Pointers whether it is the one I bought from them or the one I purchased from another breeder. They have a lot of knowledge about the breed and are always more than happy to share it with me. I am so impressed in their breeding program I actually have a puppy reserved from an up coming litter. If I had to rate this breeder on a scale from 1-10? I would SERIOUSLY give them a 15!!!!! Thanks for giving me a chance to answer these questions and I hope it helped you out.

Dear Mark and Cheryl, You all probably have a bunch of these but let me add ours to the lot. As you know, after 7 weeks of anticipation we picked up IHD’s Herr Ingel von Schultz Gunter at the Charleston, SC airport. It is always an anxious moment to see if ones personal expectations are going to be met, especially when purchasing a puppy from afar. The purchaser relies heavily on the statements and representations of the breeder as to the overall and specific quality, traits, personalities, and potential. When this guy popped out of the crate we knew we had secured a phenomenal animal. He was clean, alert, confident, and perfect in physical stature. As I mentioned, we have been searching for three years to find the right GSP to replace our original Schultz. I have been on hundreds of web sites, made even more phone calls, and have visited over 50 kennels. None of the breeders met our requirements for a true to form, even tempered, multi-purpose Kurzhund. I would like to personally thank you both for your efforts in breeding the highest quality GSP’s. Many people go through life not knowing what a quality bred dog is supposed to look and act like. We know the difference. Gunter is a welcomed addition to our family; we can’t wait to start him on birds this November. I have no doubt he is going to develop into an outstanding dog! Thanks for all of your time in keeping us updated with e-mails and pictures during the entire 7 weeks. Best regards

Hi Mark, Hi Cheryl, I don’t know if Kath emailed you about our last chukkar hunt with the dogs or not. If not, let me know, and I’ll have her send some pictures. Anyway, last Saturday we went to our favorite hunting place Big cottonwood;. Kath chose to “man the camera”, so I was the solo hunter. They released 8 chukkar, within 45 minutes we had walked up to the area, found all 8 birds, shot 7 (somebody blew an easy shot…….actually, 3 shots…… blamed it on the sun), returned back to the camp with 7 chukkar in our bag and proceeded to tell Benton (the owner), that this isn’t any fun….. With these dogs that we have, it only takes about 15 minutes to find 8 chukkar. So he sent us down to a lower field that had already been hunted earlier in the day to see if they had missed anything. These dogs were just warming up, they wanted to do some more hunting. The dogs proceeded to find 1 more chukar and 2 pheasants. The last trip out, Maxx didn’t find any of the birds, but he honored all of Lacey’s points and retrieved all of the birds. This time he found/pointed over half of the birds. He either found 6 or 7 of the 11 birds (I can’t remember which). Maxx went on point in some super short grass, Kath said that he was probably pointing a mouse, but she called Lacey over anyway. Lacey went on point also, almost immediately a pheasant flew out of the short grass in the middle of them. I shot it, but it hit the ground running. Lacey was in front of Maxx, but she doesn’t quite know what to do with a runner, so Maxx ran around her, swooped up the pheasant by the butt and kept on running back to us. He didn’t hardly even slow down. I wish that I had the whole thing on video. Anyway, Kath was pretty embarrassed, she said that that is the last time that she will ever question the dogs. Roy had taught me that same valuable lesson many times over the years. It was fun to see it happen to someone else. Maxx is unbelievable for a 5 1/2 month old puppy. Roy never really came around until he reached about 2 years old, so this is very exciting for me. I won’t bore you by telling you about each of his points and retrieves, because I’m sure that you’ve seen the same thing thousands of times before. I have a very hard time comprehending how he can be so good and still be so young. Maxx had grown quite a bit since Benton had seen him 3 weeks ago, he said, “Man, you always have such big, good looking dogs, how do you do it?” Kath told him that it was lots of TLC. Right now, I’m fight a cold (and the cold in winning), as soon as I get it whipped, we’re going back out to Big cottonwood. I told my friend (who owns Lacey’s daddy), that my Christmas gift to him was a hunt with his dog and ours. I’ll let you know what happens.

P.S. Sure wish that you could have seen our smiles on the way home. Take Care!

Cheryl, Thought I would drop you a line about Cheyenne. We just got back from South Dakota Oct. 31, 2005 and wow did she do good but I’ll start from the beginning. From day 1 she has been the best dog money can buy. House breaking and crate training were a breeze. She is VERY smart and catches on to everything easily. In the past few months I’ve been taking her to a dog trainer off and on and have been working with her on the things she learned in between. Here’s a quote from my dog trainer. “I’m not sure where you got this puppy from but HOLY COW do they know how to breed them”. He is a full time trainer and always has 8-10 client dogs and says there’s not a dog that comes through his kennel like this and would put her up against 90% of all the dogs and she would show them up. When people around here talk about a steady dog they consider a 3 minute point rock solid. About a month ago we put a bird out for her and she pointed over 30 minutes without as much as even a creep. And when we flushed the bird and harvested it she retrieved like you wouldn’t believe. All of this at 9 MONTHS OLD!!. We have even as much as taken our training birds and dropped them at her feet and flew them between her nose and the pointed bird and she won’t break!!!! She also is very strong at backing/honoring another dogs point. All this came natural with no training at all. When we were in South Dakota we had 4 people hunting behind her and my other puppy and we had our limit every day (12 per day) in less than 4 hours per day. That’s hunting all public land too!!!! Cheyenne stuck probably 75% of all the birds we harvested and honored on all the points from the other puppy. Not to mention retrieving every bird the other puppy didn’t. She would go just wide open from the time you let her out into the field until you put her back in the box. To say the least she is bird crazy. Then when you go from the field to home you get a completely different dog. You get in the house and she’s super mellow and lays by your feet. If you seen her in the house you would probably think this lazy dog couldn’t hunt if she wanted to. I’ve had tons of compliments about how pretty she is too. I actually have people that want to reserve puppies out of her first litter. I tell them it will be a year and a few months and they say they will gladly wait. I tell a lot of people about your web site too. Thanks again for a puppy of this caliber