Duck Hunting Dog Hunting Christmas Shirt German Shorthaired Pointer Santa Hat

The wood duck is carried the way a trained retriever carries it, held softly with the feathers unruffled, while a Santa hat sits on a head that has clearly not stopped working for the holidays. Four mallards still cross the sky above him. Cattails rise on both sides, and the dog sits square in the middle of the marsh, waiting for someone to take the bird from his mouth. He is patient. That someone is the hunter this design was drawn for.

A Duck Hunting Dog Christmas Shirt with a Wood Duck in His Mouth

Our German Shorthaired Pointer Christmas shirt pictures a spotted, brown-headed pointer in a Santa hat with a fluffy pom-pom, seated between two clumps of dry reeds and cattails with a wood duck in his jaws. Two mallards fly on each side of him, wings spread wide, as if the whole flock is watching the retrieve. It is a shirt for the duck hunter who shares every early morning with this breed, and for the family member who knows exactly which dog to picture when they see it. The scene keeps to the marsh and the dog, which leaves room for the owner to supply the name and the story.

December and duck season overlap, and that overlap is where this design lives. The dog already has a job to do at the water, so the Santa hat reads as his way of joining the family holiday without leaving his post. We drew him sitting calm, which is how a pointer looks once the retrieve is finished and the praise has been given. Cold hands, a wet coat, a truck heater running: anyone with a GSP at their side will recognize the end of that kind of morning. At the Christmas table, the shirt puts the dog in the conversation even while he is asleep by the fire, and it gives the hunter in the family a way to wear the season they love most.

When Else Does a Santa Hat Duck Dog Shirt Make Sense?

Past Christmas week, the pointer, the wood duck, the mallards, and the cattails still belong to any cold morning at the water. The hat marks it as a holiday design, but the hunting scene carries it through the rest of duck season and into the next one.

The pom-pom is the only part of that dog that looks like it is off duty.