Obedience/gun dog trainer recs

Carl Boudreaux. Bayou gauche. Old guy but fixed my lab. Wish I had found him sooner.

Do you already own the pup? What kind of dog? What are you expecting out of it? What’s your time and $ budget.

The best in the game will be at the Spring Grand in Natchez hosted by Baton Rouge’s Amite River Club. Go and talk to folks and you will find your trainer. Then you will need to convince them to take your pup.

Also to note, most of the dogs at the grand have had $10k plus invested in training.

You can get a started level dog with ~6 mos, HR level with 9 months, and finished level with 12+ months of training. You will need yearly tune ups or you better plan to spend a lot of time keeping that training up. Hunting alone won’t cut it for Hunt Test level dogs. Just depends on what you’re after.

Cost is 600-1000 month, depending on who is touching the dog.

Chuck McCall probably has the most dogs running in the grand from this area. The clients he has that are serious get their pups from his recommendation and agree to his program when they sign up. To get the best, you almost have to sign a life long contract with both breeder and trainer.

Brittany. My primary concern is tightening up her obedience and recall, but a foundation for comfort around guns and some basic retrieving with eye toward duck and/or dove hunting would be a nice bonus.

I have two friends who train in the Cenla area. One of them actually owns a Brittany that he hunts woodcock with. I can get you his information if you want.

Kyle Sculley river bottom retrievers

And you’ll have a good excuse to go to the beach a few times.

Brandon Menard with Cypress Bottom Retrievers.

Located in St. Martinville.


He’s one of the best.

We went on vacation and he had our lab for a month. In that short time he could heel on command and all the other basics.

Over a year later, you can tell heel was drilled into his brain.

I have nothing to add, just following up to a similar thread from some time ago.

I got a FC (Grady) x (still running) QAA dog as a complete amateur about a year ago. My old trainer in MS had a nice kennel and grounds and I thought that was impressive. I got a rec from the breeder of my pup for a pro trainer in NE that mainly focused on Grands. Holy shite is that place on operation! He must have had a dozen workers, matching new Dodge diesels pulling 5th wheel 24-hole dog trailers, perfect water setups, etc etc. Purina Pro Plan was delivered by the pallet. The dog stayed for 5 months for a gun dog/force fetch/intro type program. Those 5 months cost just under 2x the expensive dog and that place was chock full. She will never be a top level trialdog due my financial unwillingness and other pursuits; but she is turning out pretty damn impressive even after I took over. She is a ball of fire and super aggravating, but I have high hopes that she will fit in perfectly running trails in the summer and in the field in the fall.

Good luck with the dog, OP.

ETA: Trial/trail illiterate