Trainer in the WA, OR, ID area for a Brit

[Happy Gilmore]

What did you pay a month? That was the original question. I wonder about mid-west trainers. I've heard alot about all the wild birds they train dogs on. Are there no hunting seasons for wild birds?

There are hunting seasons just like in WA, but places like SD allow dogs to be trained on wild birds out of season as well.  Trainers use blank guns, just like they do in AKC/AF trials.

My dad decided to make the trip out to SD to drop his dog off with the trainer I use for summer camp.  He leaves just after the 4th.  He will pick her up mid September at the tail end of camp.  Im going to go out with him to pick his dog up. Im going to practice running my dog off horseback in preperation for the trial season and the trainer is going to spend 2 days teaching my dad how to work his dog.  BTW.. It will also coincide with the sharptail opener so we are combining a learning trip witha  hunting trip.  Can't wait..

BTW  Happy.  My dogs litter mate smoked her this spring and finished his FC just after he turned 2 1/2.  He is in the top 10 in the nation for Brittany's in gun dog points.  Sounds like FC's grow on trees.  j/k
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You run him in any hunt tests?

[jetjockey]

My dogs brother is owned by a guy who is huge in the brittany field trial world.  I think he has almost 9 or 10 dogs with the trainer at any one time, and another 10 dogs at home.  He owns the sire to my dog.  He has never run him in any hunt tests, and Ive never ran my dog in any.   The only reason we are trialing our dog is because she did well as a young dog and showed lots of promise.  So far, shes done well running as an adult as well....  I can't wait until February.  She's going to run at the AKC Gun Dog Nationals at Ames Plantation in TN.  Not sure if you know anything about Ames, but its the most storied field trial grounds in the country and the location of the AF All Age National Championship that is held every year.  I can't wait to ride around on those grounds.  It will be the equivelant of playing baseball in the old Yankee stadium. 

[Happy Gilmore]

My dogs brother is owned by a guy who is huge in the brittany field trial world.  I think he has almost 9 or 10 dogs with the trainer at any one time, and another 10 dogs at home.  He owns the sire to my dog.  He has never run him in any hunt tests, and Ive never ran my dog in any.   The only reason we are trialing our dog is because she did well as a young dog and showed lots of promise.  So far, shes done well running as an adult as well....  I can't wait until February.  She's going to run at the AKC Gun Dog Nationals at Ames Plantation in TN.  Not sure if you know anything about Ames, but its the most storied field trial grounds in the country and the location of the AF All Age National Championship that is held every year.  I can't wait to ride around on those grounds.  It will be the equivelant of playing baseball in the old Yankee stadium.

Sounds like a blast! There is an 11 year old GSP here at the kennel who is a FC. He needs one leg of his Master this weekend to become a MH as well as a FC. He looks like he's 8 years old. A great dog and nice to have around as well. It will be an emotional day for the owner if he gets it this weekend.-

[jetjockey]

Just a fun update on a spirited thread.  My dads Brit has been in SD since about July 13th or 14th.  I just got off the phone with the trainer today and all I can say is WOW.. I SCREWED UP!!!!!  Seems my dad has himself a beast, or as the trainer puts it, a machine.  He said that breaking her was the easy part, the tough part has been getting her to handle the way my dad wants her to.  Seems that she doesn't just want to find birds in the same field, she wants to find birds in the next country!  Shes perfectly happy 800+ yards out and going away.  She would be a true All Age brittany that guys breed, and breed, and breed to try and get.  And I could have had her for free!     Unfortunately, my dad only wants a foot hunting dog that stays within about 200 yards, and that has been the hardest part for the trainer.  He says that the first time she finds a bird when he puts her down, its like someone injects her with crack, and she wants to go faster and faster.  Ive only heard him get really excited about one other dog, and that was her older brother from a different litter.  He was the reason they did a rebreeding, and it sounds like my dad got the dog they were rebreeding for.  Oh well.  My dad's going to have himself a heck of a bird dog that is great on birds, and will run as big as he lets her.  Im heading out next week to SD with my dad to pick her up.  The trainer is going to work with him for 3 days to learn how to handle her.  Her bird work is great, shes just going to need my dad to be able to handle her rediculous desire to find birds.

[Happy Gilmore]

Fritz passed his master test on Sat. at 12 YO. Transitioning from being a FC dog to a HT title was very difficult for him.(and others I am told) Sounds like a fun dog. I just made plans to attend my first upland field trial next April. I have a guy bringing me a horse and putting me up. He's an AM has a place in Sauvie and one in Sunnyside. Looking forward to it but, still a way out.....

[ProsserChukar]

Doug Burnett at the cooke canyon hunting club is great, he trained our brit and I couldn't be happier with the results.