A Weimaraner in full stride is one of the more striking sights in the dog world, a large, muscular animal in a coat that runs from mouse-grey to silver-blue, with pale amber or blue-grey eyes that give it an almost eerie focus. The breed was developed in early nineteenth-century Germany, at the Weimar court, as an all-purpose hunting dog capable of tracking large game, pointing, and retrieving across varied terrain. That origin is not a footnote. It explains almost everything about what the Weimaraner needs from its owner today.
