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Dog Training
One on One Training
$30 for ½ to 1 hour session.
This unique style of training is for the highly motivated individual who wants to learn the nuts and bolts of training.
- You bring your dog and we show you how to train your dog
- When you are ready for the next step, we meet for another training session
*Warning, many people with good intentions start out but quickly find they do not have the time, patience, room and/or ability to follow through with the training. Remember you are doing the training work.
Obedience Training
The dog will stay at Whistler Farm for the entire time we train it.
Obedience training is $175 per week.
Price includes dog’s room and board. It also includes training of the owner and family with the dog.
Training includes basic dog obedience, heel, sit, stay, down, don’t jump up, come when called and socialization with people and with other animals.
Whistler Farm will train your dog to obedience trial or hunter field trial levels. You are responible for competing your own dog unless special arrangements and additional compensation are made ahead of time.
Gun Dog Training
Marc and Michigan Tyke running their Gun Dog Trials.
The dog will stay at Whistler Farm for the entire time we train it.
Gun Dog training is $450 per month.
Price includes dog’s room and board, as well as training of the owner with the dog.
Birds used during normal training are included in the monthly fee.
Any live birds you wish to shoot are extra or have your dog retrieve will be billed at the going rate.
See game birds for more information.
Upland Training
Upland training includes:
- Live shooting over your dog
- Quartering and flushing birds in the field
- Retrieving shot birds to hand
- Steadiness to flush and Wing
Waterfowl Gundog Training
Waterfowl retrieving and working includes:
- Live shooting over your dog
- Retrieving and working from out of a boat, blind and/or pit
- Decoy familiarization and desensitization
- Retrieving and working with hand signals and layout blinds
*Please Note, it is very hard to do Gun Dog Training from September to December because the days are so short. If you are interested, the Spring and Summer months are best.
Patron Field Photos
Here are some photographs of our patrons in the field and at action (or after the action is over).
Vicki and Steve Robards’ Allie
holds court over her catch.
Carl Kisinski’s dogs Molly and Abby
looking over their hunting catch
from North Dakota/Manitoba hunt.
Abby (Owner Carl Kisinski) holds a mallard.
Long time client & professional goose
hunting guide David Hartline of
"Honker Hunts" in Michigan.
*Please Note* We love to see pictures of our dogs at work. If you submit a physical photo to Whistler Farm, however, it will not be returned. Please wm() onmouseover="window.status = sMessage[56]; setToolTip(this,56); return true;" onmouseout="window.status = sMessage[0]; return true;" />eMail your digital photos to us by clicking wm() onmouseover="window.status = sMessage[57]; setToolTip(this,57); return true;" onmouseout="window.status = sMessage[0]; return true;" />here.
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