Quality Bird Dogs Kennel Rules

Before sending your dog to my kennel:

1. Your dog should be comfortable with a twenty foot check cord on. This means not tugging the rope from behind you. If he wants to tug and pull ahead of you, this is good and what we want.

2. Your dog should come to you on a twenty foot check cord by calling his name and the command “come here.”

3. Do not heel break your pointing dog. When he gets tired while hunting, instead of staying busy and doing his work, he may come and walk beside you. What are you going to do then? You taught him to heel! If you are sure you want your dog broke to heel, you can do it after I have trained him.

4. If you have a soft or timid dog, you need to tie him out on a seven foot chain when he’s five months of age. At first he will be intimidated by this but shortly, sometimes within 30 minutes, he will accept this and begin hitting the end of the chain without any notice. Leave him on a seven to eight foot tie out from 5 months of age to 9 or 10 months of age. You will be surprised that most dogs prefer this. If you tie your dog out younger than I am recommending you may develop a pen climber in later years because he did not learn young he could not get out of a pen.

5. This is almost a must to properly develop your young dog. You should periodically take your pup out and let him run and play. This gets him acquainted with the outdoors and this will help develop his hunting instincts much earlier. Making him a better hunting dog sooner than later.

If you do not have time for this I do. I have an effective 30 day puppy program to let your pup hunt birds and properly introduce the gun. Note: The puppy program delete rules 1 and 2 above. This helps establish a “leader of the pack”. As you know your pup is a pack animal and respects a pecking order. This is a vital step in beginning training. Puppy program $500.

6. Your dog should be worm free and his shots up to date. Also not mandatory but a good idea is to have your veterinarian give your pup a bordetella shot. This helps prevent kennel cough.

Rules for You:

1. If you are a new customer, advanced pen reservations and a non refundable $100 deposit are required. This is deducted from your training bill.

2. While your dog is in training I give no reports. This means no phone calls until I am done. The best way to train your dog is to lay a good foundation and then build upon it one step at a time. Your dog will learn at the correct pace for him. I don’t care if your dog learns fast or slow. I care about our finished product. It makes no difference to me if he took 15 days longer to train than another dog. Also the same holds true if he trains 15 days sooner than another dog. This is not an indicator of whether he will be a good dog or not. It is a waste of my time and yours to talk about how your dog is coming along until he is finished.This rule applies to everyone.

3. If I have not trained for you before it is imperative that you come and personally pick up your dog. When you leave your dog with me he bonds with me in just a few days. He does not know if you are coming back. Dogs are pack animals and need a leader that will be me. After training is completed we need to transfer that position to you.

4. I do not accept problem dogs. If you have started to train your dog or sent him to a trainer and things are not quite buttoned up (common to hear he is 90% finished), I am not interested. You have the opportunity to train your dog right and bring him unscarred to his potential once. It can either be by you or me, but not both. Problem dogs that I have seen corrected, even though trained, seldom become what they could have.

These are rules not suggestions. I do run a tighter ship than some, but because of these rules it allows me to do a good job for my customers.

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