West Mountain Kennels
New York
Hunting Dog Breeds Trained: Boykin Spaniel, Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Labrador Retriever, Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
We have a variety of training programs for your dog, depending on the type of training your dog needs, your dogs age, and the intensity youre looking for.
We are a full-service training kennel, meaning that we can work with your dog from the time s/he is a pup all the way through to hunting age, we can offer older dogs refresher courses, or we can work with dogs that have never had training before.
Obedience Training: The rule of thumb with obedience training is that you can never begin with your dog early enough. However, no matter what your dogs age, consistent training in the basics have a positive effect on a dogs patience, the dogs attention span, the trust bond and relationship between the dog and handler.
Obedience training is the foundation for all other training, and even if your dog has been trained, talk to us about a tune-up to put polish on your dog.
Bumper Work, Whistle & Retrieving: In this training stage, bird dogs learn how to respond to vocal commands and a whistle, how to shift their search direction on command, and they become comfortable retrieving and carrying a bumper or dummy bird.
Performed in the field, this training also develops your dog's comfort working under real conditions. Once your dog has developed these skills, s/he is ready to move on to upland or waterfowl work, depending on the type of bird dog you want to develop.
Upland Work: In upland training, your dog puts his/her retrieval and whistle skills to use in finding and flushing upland birds, including chucker, quail, partridge and pheasant. To do this, your dog will learn quartering, or working a field in zigzag patterns.
Overall, upland work develops your dog's ability to cover a field systematically, with confidence.
Waterfowl Work: For dogs that are being trained to retrieve waterfowl like ducks and geese, the aim is to develop the dog's ability to stay steady and still throughout a hunting session, until the time comes for retrieving game. West Mountain Kennels has multiple ponds and marshy areas for training your dog in real waterfowl hunting conditions.
We are a full-service training kennel, meaning that we can work with your dog from the time s/he is a pup all the way through to hunting age, we can offer older dogs refresher courses, or we can work with dogs that have never had training before.
Obedience Training: The rule of thumb with obedience training is that you can never begin with your dog early enough. However, no matter what your dogs age, consistent training in the basics have a positive effect on a dogs patience, the dogs attention span, the trust bond and relationship between the dog and handler.
Obedience training is the foundation for all other training, and even if your dog has been trained, talk to us about a tune-up to put polish on your dog.
Bumper Work, Whistle & Retrieving: In this training stage, bird dogs learn how to respond to vocal commands and a whistle, how to shift their search direction on command, and they become comfortable retrieving and carrying a bumper or dummy bird.
Performed in the field, this training also develops your dog's comfort working under real conditions. Once your dog has developed these skills, s/he is ready to move on to upland or waterfowl work, depending on the type of bird dog you want to develop.
Upland Work: In upland training, your dog puts his/her retrieval and whistle skills to use in finding and flushing upland birds, including chucker, quail, partridge and pheasant. To do this, your dog will learn quartering, or working a field in zigzag patterns.
Overall, upland work develops your dog's ability to cover a field systematically, with confidence.
Waterfowl Work: For dogs that are being trained to retrieve waterfowl like ducks and geese, the aim is to develop the dog's ability to stay steady and still throughout a hunting session, until the time comes for retrieving game. West Mountain Kennels has multiple ponds and marshy areas for training your dog in real waterfowl hunting conditions.
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Ed Larkin
PO Box 573
Pawling, NY 12564
United States
PO Box 573
Pawling, NY 12564
United States