All those are true. You just have to taje into account jagds are immensely hard headed. They hunt because they like it and could care less about pleasing you. All jagds, by breed standard, should be open on scent or sight. Silent jagds should be a cull by the standard. That may or may not matter to you. They are super driven and wont be happy sitting on a chain all the time. They can make your life miserable if theyre bored. Digging chewing making all sorts of god awful racket. If yiu get a pup, get it from proven lines from someone that hunts like you do. Someone in the North breeding for varmint dogs might not be selecting for traits conducive to big game hunting. And please do the breed a favor by nit producing a litter off young unproven dogs. I love the little devils. They have a low cull rate and thats only because people actively seek to improve the breed and not peddle pups off of unproven young dogs.
Are you sure the breed standard is correct about open on scent or sight??? I have had terriers for over 40 years and I have never seen a open terrier in rat or fox terriers. You mite get one that yips a lil on jumped varmit but all i ever seen or had were silent trailers and only barked when game was bayed or up a tree. I read where they had 500 Jagds in Kennels beofre WW2 breeding them up by Germans, no wonder they are so gamey, they prob shot any dog that did not hunt. I never had a Jag and for sure dont if they are open like the standard says, are all of your dogs fully open when trailing game??? Do they trail nose down and open or how hot does a trail have to be for them to open??? Are they bawl mouth, pr chop mouth or squeaky, bell mouth or what exactly?? Got a video of one barking on trail?? I love to see that, dont know what dog they used to get them open and black??
