Olive Hill Kennels

03/19/2024

No Open House at the kennel this weekend. 23 & 24 March. We will be attending the Rick Smith Seminar at Quail Point Hunt Club & Sporting Clays. Let us know if you would like more information on the seminar 530-735-6217.

02/22/2024

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2024/2025 Bird Cards on Sale, Western Regional Warmup, CNOA, Puppies   Visit Our Website Check Our News 2024/2025 Bird Cards now available As the 2023/2024 Season is winding down the next 4-6 weeks, w

12/13/2023

This is Bruno. His owner passed away 2 months ago, and the family can’t keep him. He is 2 years old. They asked us to help find a good home for him, as they cannot keep him.
UPDATE: Bruno has found a great local family. Thank you all so much for helping both family’s.

10/02/2023

We have a few GSP puppies available. 11 weeks old. Males and females available. $1,250.
Pups are AKC registered. Price includes lessons at 4 and 5 months old and gun introduction at 6 months old.
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Additional pics in comments.

05/12/2023

https://healthtopics.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/health-topics/foxtails?fbclid=IwAR23vlzQYzCk82x0fLR1H1Ll2nb4LzfyvVuxBQTW7Bu466LDjxjgGZy_t2k&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

What are foxtail foreign bodies? Takeaways Foxtails are spiked seed heads found on some plants and grasses. Foxtails can enter the body and migrate into tissues, causing abscesses and infections. Foxtails are especially dangerous to pets in the summer months when they have dried out and hardened. Th...

03/22/2023

Darrell and I will be attending the Rick Smith seminar held at Quail Point Hunt Club & Sporting Clays this weekend. Darrell will be back to Saturday Open House Training next Saturday the 1st.

03/10/2023

Mr Rick Smith, Brittany Field Trail Hall of Fame Inductee is instructing his amazing FOUNDATION SEMINAR, March 25-26.

This hands on information course will be held at Quail Point Hunt Club & Sporting Clays. 29625 County RD 14
Zamora, CA 95698.

$400 PER PERSON

Schedule:
FRIDAY (suggested, not required) at Quail Point
6pm-8pm Meet and Greet/Dinner(optional)
Rib Dinner $20 per person (Contact David Martin to RSVP 530-735-6217)

SATURDAY & SUNDAY at Quail Point
7am Arrive
8am Seminar Starts
12pm Lunch Break
1pm Seminar Resumes
4pm. Seminar Ends

EQUIPMENT NEEDED:
Lawn Chair (a must)
Flat Leather Collar*
Check Cord*
Lead Rope*
Gloves(Good fitting leather gloves for check cord work, also a must)
Rain Gear(seminar continues regardless of weather)
Walking Boots
Rubber Boots for damp conditions
Pans for water and feed
*Will be available for sale at the seminar

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Quality Inn and Suites-Woodland, CA 530-666-3050
Hampton Inn and Suites-Woodland, CA 530-662-9100
Holiday Inn Express-Woodland, Ca 530-662-7750
Motel 6 Dunnigan, CA
Contact David Martin if you would like to make arrangements to park a self contained camping trailer at the clubs parking lot. 530-735-6217
Contact David Martin at Quail Point for registration.
530-735-6217

Deadline for registration is Saturday, March 18.

Deadline to mail payment is Tuesday, March 14. If you cannot mail payment by then speak to David about options.

Checks payable to Rick Smith.
Mail to: P.O. Box 848, Knights Landing, CA 95645

Rick Smith bird dog training seminar.

03/02/2023

In the first study of its kind, a new 2023 paper published by Nature Scientific Reports shows dogs given rawhide chews🦴 a few times a month had a significant chance of developing gastrointestinal issues later in life. However, the veterinary scientists also found when offered daily, there was a 117.2% increased risk of developing gut disease!!

On a side note, aside from all the dogs that have lost their lives to intestinal blockages, the last recall by the FDA found a not approved "chemical cleaning agent" called quaternary ammonia (QACs) in these harmful chews. And more recently, the Environmental Working Group reported a chemical used to whiten rawhides, titanium dioxide' was a genotoxin and may damage your dog's DNA.🧬

New Study found here- https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/health-via-nutrition-epidemiology-and-disease-detection-dogs/news-and-happenings/puppyhood-and-adolescence-diet-may-have-impact-on-dogs-gut-health-later-in-life

02/27/2023

Miss Lemon, from Sir Wade’s first litter. Louie Loves granddaughter. ❤️

She will not be still for pic.

02/23/2023

At Olive Hill Kennels we ask that you don’t teach sit and stay before gun dog training.

https://www.gundogmag.com/editorial/when-to-teach-sit-command-gun-dogs/368462?fbclid=IwAR2HEwnIE5LR1sdlX5on6FAVMcRsrFwow9YiRsyYWSenauqXwDhWkAOALgc&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Teaching your pointing dog the sit command first can lead to headaches later when teaching woah. Instead, reverse the order and consider teaching sit last.

02/22/2023

01/04/2023

Hi Friends,

The kennel is in need of towels. If you have any old ones to spare please let us know.

No power to do dog laundry for 4 days has depleted our supply. We are catching up today but want to be prepared for the next outage. Which seems like it could be very soon.

Thanks a bunch. The pups thank you a bunch too!

Olive Hill Kennels

07/03/2022

Happy 4th Everyone.
We will close at noon Monday, July 4th.

04/25/2022

No experience needed!
We need help- looking for people to pull targets/keep score at this weekend’s tournament. Thank you! 530-735-6217

04/12/2022

OHK will be closed Easter Sunday.

03/20/2022

Sunday, April 3rd we will be hosting rattlesnake avoidance training. Posted is other place,dates,times Incase you cannot make it out to Olive Hill Kennels for Get Rattled 2022.

03/07/2022

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02/21/2022

❤️

POEM OF A DOG
I am the one who always waits for you.
Your car has a special sound that I
have imprinted on my senses, I can
recognize it among a thousand.
Your steps have a magic timbre.
Your voice is music to my ears.
If I see your joy, it makes me happy!
Your scent is the best,
Your presence is what moves my
senses.
Your awakening wakes me up.
I watch you sleep and for me you are
my God, I am happy watching over
your sleep.
Your gaze is a ray of light. Your hands
on me have the lightness of peace and
the sublime display of infinite love.
When you go out, I feel a huge
emptiness in my heart.
I wait for you again and again.
I am the one who will wait for you all
my life today, tomorrow and always:
I am your dog ❤️

02/18/2022

OHKs kennel attendant Scotty was awarded Student of the Semester at his high school.

Congratulations, Scotty! We are very proud of you.

02/10/2022

Getting Ellie Mae ready for her big date with Archie Pie.

02/09/2022

Great story.

Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.

Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or even tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.

The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.

He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. And when Williams arrived at the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"

They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."

Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".

At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, and Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."

When Judy finally died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.

01/30/2022

We brought over some of the Toadfish collection to the kennel from Quail Point Hunt Club & Sporting Clays.

Stop in and check it out.

01/27/2022

***NEW***HATS***

💥Olive Hill Kennels leather patch logo. 🐾

01/20/2022

This cute little boy is ready.

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