Dave Walker Seminar

We had the Hall of Fame dog trainer Dave Walker down to instruct another seminar this past week. It’s always a great feeling to see him work dogs in a non abrasive manner. Dave’s calm demeanor and patience with the dog goes a long way in his training methods. Dave truly has the six sense for working dogs. They dogs  naturally become his friend in a short one on one session. It’s like Dave talks to them with ever saying a word. We got two great days of instruction. From teaching dogs to hold point, to turn on command, here command, honoring another dogs point, and retrieve. It was a packed day with clients and there dogs. We had all types of different breeds. German Shorthair Pointer, English Pointer, German Whirehair Pointer, Griffon, French Brittany, and American Brittany.  Dave makes time to work each dog with the owner so they get a hands on training. I learn more each time he works a dog.

Mike and Sam

Hello Jared,
Just wanted to let you know Sam is doing great. She comes to work with me most days, loves to run, and boss her puppy peers. She LOVES chasing birds… I think she has some serious hunting potential!

Mike Solin

Here are a few pictures of Lacie’s German Shorthair Pointer  litter of puppies they just turned two weeks old.

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Here are some photos taken yesterday of  Emma’s Puppies they are 3 weeks old. Starting to move around and eat solid foods.  What great looking English Pointer Puppies

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Here is some fun shots of us introducing these young English pointer puppies to birds! Contact us we have two females available!

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This past week I had the great opportunity to visit Ben Garcia from Hideaway kennels. He gave us some great tips on how to take our training program to the next level. One lesson I have learned in life is you can never stop learning. He are some shots of a great week.

Working Bandit

We worked all breeds of dogs at all different ages. Here is a Bandit a 7 month old Brittany we worked him on standing some of his birds. We used a check cord but with a very soft touch.

Teaching dogs to Back

Here is a photo of Ben Garcia and myself teaching a dog to back shot of Ben helping me with a dog named Scout. We worked him on backing this English Pointer female that was on point.  One tip that was huge through out the week was timing. Making sure you give the cue and make the correction at the precise time this helps the dog  learn faster and with less pressure.

Bull on bird intro

One of the simple small things you can do with puppies that has a huge impact later on is to introduce them to birds at a young age. Introducing them to birds at a young age will help build there confidence and drive. Ben showed us some tips that will help teach the pup to not only build his drive but teach him to return to you.  This drill helped the pup build hunting drive, return to you when called, and took some of the chase out.  Great drill accomplishing three things in one session.

Here Ben Garcia and I talked about teaching a dog whoa. Ben uses the whoa post method to convey the message to the dogs. The whoa post is all about timing and teaching the dog to stand still. Unlike most people we didn’t  put as much pressure on the dogs as is normally seen when using the whoa post. This made me fill even better about the process than before. While teaching whoa as this level Ben stops all other training and focuses intently on whoa.

Scout Pointing a bobwhite Quail

We currently have Rick White’s dog Scout back in for training. Scout spent a couple of months with us last fall and we got him trained so Rick could take him hunting. Now Rick has brought him back for us to finish whoa braking him and to polish so of his training. Scout’s sister just won a NSTRA trial a couple of weeks ago here in Utah. She is only a year old and she won the A field hands down. Were excited to see what Scout will do in the upcoming NSTRA event. The Best of the West trial to be held in Lehi Utah.