It is our goal to provide a welcoming and fun training environment with the intent of helping our members fully realize the potential of their versatile hunting dogs as companions and hunting partners. Our intention is to facilitate positive training sessions and demonstrate techniques to assist in the training of both handler and dog so together they may reach their full potential as a hunting team. We emphasize hands-on training for the inexperienced to the seasoned handler because we believe we can all learn from and help each other.

• Using hands-on, positive reinforcement, we assist in the training of both handler and dog.

• Our members are a mix of experienced and novice dog handlers.

• We offer and conduct official NAVHDA testing.

• All family members are encouraged to participate in our chapter events.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to create a supportive and non-competitive environment to build friendships among our members, while providing training and testing opportunities to develop fully trained versatile hunting dogs. We also fully support and assume NAVHDA’s purpose which is: “to foster, promote, and improve the versatile hunting dog breeds in North America; to conserve game by using well trained reliable hunting dogs on both land and water; and to aid in the prevention of cruelty to animals by discouraging non-selective and uncontrolled breeding, which produces unwanted and uncared for dogs.”