Training Philosophy

Programs and Fees

The following two years provided a unique opportunity to acquire people skills and training techniques that could not be learnt from a training manual, and were the launch pad to a successful career in executive management positions with 3 major U.S. corporations over 25 years.

Furthermore, as soon as I began achieving success competing with my dogs and was invited to become a trainer, my Xerox training helped me formulate classes that enabled people and their dogs to learn and retain knowledge far quicker than usual. Whereas there are many more trainers that have far greater knowledge, and have achieved many more awards than I, but they seldom get their message across in a way that stimulates both the dog and the handler.

I was a trainer with the Buckinghamshire, England area of the United Retriever Club, which was privileged to have the Royal Park at Windsor as their training grounds. Although I enjoyed the puppy classes I spent most of the time as an Intermediate and Advanced trainer of Labradors, Golden Retrievers and Flatcoats.

In 2000 I moved further away from London as logistics prevented me from continuing at Windsor and became a trainer with the Hampshire Gundog Society until departing for the United States in 2003, by which time, I had on average 4 dogs in full time training in my kennels.

Since arriving in the United States I have enjoyed demonstrating how I train with a pack of labs. This is particularly effective for teaching dogs to be steady to shot and learning that not everything that falls out of the sky belongs to it-they have to wait until I, the leader of the pack, call the name of one dog. When hunting I control up to four dogs on different retrieves at once, all working independently of one another.