Training

We have been professionally training dogs and horses as well as
other animals for over 35 years. We have trained many American
Kennel Club (AKC) and American Field champions including one AKC
National Field Trial Champion. We have trained obedience and agility
dogs, handicap assistance dogs, retrievers, protection and tracking
dogs, bomb and narcotics dogs as well as dogs for movies and TV
commercials. When it comes to dog training, “We wrote the book”.

We offer professional obedience training to help solve common
behavior problems: housebreaking, chewing, excessive barking,
fence jumping, biting, jumping on people, not coming when called,
and digging. At the Kennel, we have the space and facilities needed
to properly train dogs. We have a regulation agility course, tracking
course, AKC obedience ring and plenty of room and distractions.
Dogs are trained around other dogs, cats and people with real
world and family life scenarios. Only when your dog will behave in
the presence of all these distractions do you have a trained dog.

It takes a lot of time and patience to properly train a dog. Over the last 35 plus years we have
developed different programs to fit different owners' needs. In early training, dogs must be trained
multiple times each day working within their attention span, with rest periods between training
sessions. You can't work with dogs past their attention span and you can't push dogs faster than
they have the ability to learn. Dogs, just like people, have different levels of ability and learn at
different speeds. Just like there are no two people alike; there are no two dogs alike.

All of our training programs involve training the owner as well as the dog. This doesn't mean that
owners have to do all the hard day-to-day training work, but owners must learn how to control
their dog. Over the years we have learned that many behavior problems are actually owner
problems, not dog problems. Much of the time that owners spend at the Kennel during the training
process is spent in a classroom, blackboard environment with degreed behavioral psychologists
understanding how dogs' brains function. Owners must learn how to do things correctly at home
and follow through. Otherwise, all the dog training in the world will not work.