Stevenson Gun Dog and Obedience

After the phenomenal success and satisfaction we saw in Missy after her first session with Jeff, our chocolate lab is currently back for her second program, force fetch. Seeing the progress she has made in the first two weeks of this program is incredible! Jeff is an absolute dog whisperer who has taken a "wuss" and a "snow sissy" and helped her to become a focused, joyful fetching machine. I cannot express how thoroughly Jeff and his style has impressed us and we cannot wait to have our Mrs. Jones back for some fall hunting!

I brought my Black Lab (Tango) to Jeff's 8 week basic gun dog training. One of the main reasons I choice his training is that he will only train a maximum of 8 dogs at once. I knew that my dog would get the time he needed for proper training. Upon arriving at the property you will notice everything is well kept. The kennels have rubber flooring and are in a climate controlled building and are very clean, they even have music to listen to in there. My dog Tango now likes me to leave country music on when I leave the house. Another reason I was drawn to Jeff's training was the weekly visits. After the first two weeks you are able to come visit your dog see how he is doing and Jeff shows you the things they are working on. It was fun to see the progress each week that they were making. I am very happy with the end results Jeff was able to take the drive in my dog and harness it and give the foundation to a future bird machine. Tango has such a desire to retrieve he would retrieve all day if I let him now that he is home whenever I am done throwing the dummy around for him he always wants more. Jeff did a great job teaching Tango how to use his nose for upland birds. I kept up the training at home just as Jeff said. This past week I went to a game farm and Tango was a bird maniac he hunted close and worked the field perfect. We were able to get 8 out of 9 birds that were in the field pretty impressive for his first time ever with me on live birds. Like I said he is a future bird machine now. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Jeff to anyone and I already have actually. We plan on bringing Tango back sometime in the future for advance class as well.

We had brought our dog to Jeff in 2014 for the basic gun dog training and we couldn’t be happier with the care given and the quality of training that our dog received. We decided to bring our dog back this year 2015 for the force training and the advanced training program 1, and once again Jeff did a great job. We took her out this year for duck opener and all I can say is WOW!!! The control we now have is above and beyond our expectations, she was steady in the blind, her lining and marking was amazing and the force training made a huge difference in her retrieving, she retrieved every time back to her place and delivered the bird to hand perfectly.

My husband, Chris and I were looking for a trainer to help with obedience and provide some gun training for TJ our 6 month old Springer Spaniel. We had visited a couple facilities and when we met with Jeff, we knew that he was the trainer for TJ. Jeff's facilities are very clean and comfortable. He has only 8 dogs at a time, which provides more one on one training time. Jeff is extremely knowledgeable in training all different types of dogs. He let us know that we could call at anytime to see how TJ was doing and that after the first two weeks, we could visit once a week. We were having dominance issues with TJ and Jeff was able to take him right away. The week following our visit, we went to drop TJ off. I was expecting to be very sad to see TJ go, but watching him with Jeff, we knew that we made the right decision. TJ responded very well to Jeff and each week we saw progress. We have now had TJ home for three weeks and we can't believe the difference. While TJ is still being a puppy, he can be out front with us and listens. Although, he wasn't keen on the hunting, due to not being neutered, he does love retrieving his ball and bumper when it is thrown. Unlike other training programs, Jeff is there after the training is complete, offering to help us when we have issues. We would and have recommended Stevenson Gun Dog & Obedience to anyone who is looking for training for their dog. We wouldn't hesitate to use him again for a new dog or refresher training for TJ. Thank you Jeff, for all your hard work with TJ, we loved seeing how much TJ enjoyed working with you! Chris and Audra Ruff

We got our adorable puppy at 8 weeks, it was a Golden Retriever that was supposed to be sweet as can be. Well, he wasn't. He was sweet, but sweet with an aggressive, dominant attitude. We worked and worked with him for four months but didn't get very far. My husband was thinking of calling the breeder back that we got him from to see if we could "return" him, but I was having none of that. He was ours for "better or worse" and we had to figure it out. SO...we sought out a trainer that could work on the obedience along with hunting training as well. We searched in our area and found Stevenson Gun Dog & Obedience training. We met with Jeff and really liked him and the living quarters that the dogs were in so once Ollie was six months old he spent eight weeks with Jeff and went through obedience and gun dog training. We got to visit our puppy every week which is not something that is offered in a lot of other training places that I looked in to. The weekly visits were great, we got to see our dog and work with him under Jeff's guidance. We learned a lot and seeing our puppy every week was wonderful! We just picked up our dog last weekend and he is wonderful. He is listening, behaving and his aggressiveness is no longer. My stepson swears that Jeff gave us the wrong dog...the one we got back is so different....a GREAT different!!! I would recommend Jeff to anyone and everyone. He takes the time to work not only with the dog, but with the owners as well. We feel very lucky to have found him and can't thank him enough for his help with Ollie. Thank you so very, very much Jeff.