The Upland Disciple Podcast

Clint comes back to continue the story of the building of the breton in the US in his kennel, his training, and his group. He is the most well known breton training in the US and has led many newcomers into the game and into the breedQ

We dive deep with Clint LaFary, long team leader in the training and handling world of French Brittanies in the US! This interview is so rich we had to take two episodes to unwrap it for you!

Jeremy joins us from upstate Connecticut where he owns and operates V3 Gun Dogs. Jeremy spent his early career in law enforcement, working heavily in the k9 units before retiring and launching his own full time training kennel. Jeremy has immense experience in the bird dog world as well, and has run dogs in hunt tests and field trials across the northeast. Join us for this fun conversation and deep dive on what gun dog development looks like with Jeremy and V3 Gun Dogs!

In this episode we talk with Jake Faas from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Jake has had a lot of experience with dogs in his life, but is relatively new to bird dogs. Jake currently owns and operates a pet dog training company in the Twin Cities and utilizies many of the same obedience drills and philosophical methods across the board. Jake has had a frisbee or agility dog, he has spent lots of time in the bite dog world working with others as a training helper or the man in the suit, but also

In this part two of the interview with Ronnie and Susanna Smith we will dive deeper into finishing a dog, things that come up and how to avoid them or work on them, tools, tips, tricks to have in your tool bag, as well as a bit more conversation on the larger work of bird dog development, clinics and seminars that they offer, and other final things like retrieve work and more.

On this episode of the Upland Disciple Podcast, we are joined by Ronnie and Susanna Smith of Ronnie Smith Kennels. Coming from the Smith family tree, Ronnie and Susanna are generational experts in the Smith Method, also known as the HuntSmith Silent Command System, and were kind enough to share their wealth of knowledge on bird dogs, bird dog training, bird dog psychology, and the tools and styles that they have adopted, adapted, and used throughout their careers as top end dog trainers. If you have

This is just a short intro to the podcast, what is it come, a bit about me, Josh Ruiter, and why I am aspiring to bring this content to each and every one of you, as we together seek to grow as dog trainers, handlers, hunters, and uplanders. Every episode will be full of either professional dog trainers sharing with us their methods, tools, tips, and tricks OR amateur or those who have come after the "big dogs" and have put their methods to use sharing with us their stories and their call to the