Lone Sage Bird Dogs (LSBD) LLC, offers premium and personalized training for your upland dogs in the Great Northwest. Our back yard is the jumping off point for what most consider the Upland Mecca. In these rugged canyons dogs and hunters are put to the test. We work hard every day to ensure your pup is up to the challenge. So if you have hopes of getting your four legged hunting partner to be a bragging rights wild bird dog, we are your professional trainers.
In a high level look at our blueprint to building a bird dog, we believe that you start out with proven genetics to ensure your puppy comes from parents that display the traits you are desiring. Once the puppy is ready we gun condition them and introduce them to handling in the field. Your mission for the pups rookie season should be to expose them to as many different types of WILD birds amongst as many varied terrains as possible. Build their tool kit while they are still little sponges. We will not shoot birds over our dogs in the field that they did not point. No sense in unpacking bad habits during the steadiness process later. Here is were we deviate from most conventional breaking processes; we will not begin the process until the pup is standing wild coveys on their own without a whoa or any other man made influence from the handler. We find this not only maintains the dogs style and intensity, but there are less opportunities to put bad habits into the dog as well as it shortens the actual breaking process considerably. "There are a million ways to do it half-ass'ed, there is only one way to do it perfect" DH
I did not become a dog trainer overnight. Most of my free time over the past 20 years was spent chasing wild birds. During this time I became friends with several top tier dog men. They showed me the ropes, let me help out, sometimes what not to do, and answered my never ending questions. The lessons learned with these trainers cannot be learned in books or from the gram. You have to put hands on dogs. Period. I have made many mistakes in my training evolution, and remain humble that there is always something out there that could be a better way. You have to remain a student of the game. And just as the ones before me passed on their wisdom, I try to do the same and help out the new handlers coming up the ranks. Thank you to all those people who helped me along way.
