Layton Retriever Kennels

All we can say is WOW, we brought our 11 month old Chesapeake bay retriever to Greg and his staff for duck dog school, at first I was not sure Scooter had it in him, he is my 4th Chessy and the most stubborn one of the lot. Well with our first trip down after a month my wife was so over joyed. Scooter was a changed dog already. His obedience training that Greg did was amazing. He never tried to push my 5 year old daughter around and was right by her side following her everywhere. After the end of the training cycle, Greg gave me back a retrieving machine. We are %100 satisfied with Greg and Brenda and will give him our complete recommendation to anyone wanting their dog trained or boarded. In fact Greg will be the only one we will board our big brown fuzzy boy with! Thank you guys for all the hard work you put in to make Scooter what he is today. And if I can talk my wife into it you guys will have another Chessy from us soon!

Great place. Inside kennel with heat. Separate quarters for every dog. Secure play area out back of the kennel building. Acreage for training complete with a pond and he has access to other land in the immediate area. Greg is super friendly. We just needed a short stay with a training tune-up. Complete with some ecollar conditioning. My dog was happy when I picked him up. The work that I asked to be done was completed. I will use Greg and his services in the future. I highly recommend.

This place is awesome. Greg and his staff go above and beyond with training and customer service. I first sent my dog in for 3 months of consecutive training and the outcome was fantastic. The obedience alone was worth the wait. My dog would retrieve to hand, follow hand cast, quarter in the field, everything that was on the website was exactly what I got. Best of all my dog was happy and healthy. I just sent him back for a refresher course and again I was amazed at the outcome. My dogs obedience was even better than before, he was doing blind retrieves, and much much more. I will continue to send him back yearly for a refresher course. Being new to having a hunting I truly didn’t know what to expect, but Greg and Brenda take the time with you one on one to explain and show you how to hunt with your dog safely and efficiently. I truly recommend Layton Retriever to any novice bird dog hunters and to any seasoned vets out there. Thanks again Greg and Brenda, you guys are the best.

We could not be more pleased with Greg and his staff and how they transformed our wild, loving puppy into an awesome, obedient dog, but most importantly how great they treated our Puppy Ollie. I wanted to wait two weeks to write this review since this was our first time having our family dog trained and others have said that a Dog NOT trained properly will forget what they've learned and revert back to the way they acted before they began "school". NOT the case with Ollie. He spent 2 months with Greg and his staff and even though he's now a 10 month old Lab (known to be a high energy breed) he came home a totally different dog in regards to his knowledge of commands and his overall manners around people and surprisingly inside our home. He just seems to understand do's and don't like a much more mature dog. We work him daily (with the directions Greg gave us on his exit meeting) walking and retrieving and Ollie responds greatly and it's very obvious he enjoys the training. This is my 3rd Lab and I truly believe that taking a young dog to get trained helps them at a young age to develop a part of their brain that makes them open to learn, obey, and just want to please, and I cannot recommend a better facility than Greg's. His cost was VERY reasonable (you couldn't Board alone for less) and as I admitted to my wife before we signed up with Greg; "I don't have the time, Knowledge, or Patience to help Ollie to be a solid addition to our family". Take it from our family, if your thinking about having your dog trained, Do It...and contact Greg for his next available opening... No, I'm not related or getting paid for this,, lol Best Regards, Oliver Buckshot Finnegan's Dad.