Lonesome Willow Gundogs LLC

08/29/2024

Happy 7th Birthday Win Tin, Wakeen, Winnie, Wakeenston, Winston! You’re always taking care of everyone and are a great big brother. 🎉🐾🎈

08/26/2024

Happy happy 11th birthday to the OG Maverick Duke (Mav, Mav Dav, Mavykins, Mavy, Kins, Kin Kin, Old Man, Maverdick) He has been my rock. From my late teens, twenties, and soon to be thirties. He has been with me my entire adult life. He is the best puppy teacher even though he hates when I bring a new one home. He gets whatever he wants and does what he wants. Any chance he gets he chases the ducks. He still kicks it with the youngins.🥳🐾🎉🎈

08/15/2024

NEW GRADUATE ALERT 🚨 ‼️ - ATHENA
This spunky girl graduated over the weekend and is ready to hit the fields. It was great watching her progress from a shy pup to a bird machine. Can’t wait to get the first of the season report from her and her dad. 🪶🐾🙌🙌🧡

08/12/2024

Happy 3rd birthday to the goofiest boy I have ever met no thoughts in his head just go go, and to the smartest boy who voices his opinion and is in thought constantly. Can’t wait to start our hunting season up. Thank you for teaching me so much and getting me deeper into the dog world. You two are definitely Ying and Yang. You might look almost identical but you’re complete opposites. Happy birthday Ramsey and Archer🎈🎉🥳🐾🪶

08/02/2024

Happy 17th Birthday sissy!!! All our driving training paid off. Getting your license is a great birthday present. Can’t wait to see you later to get your car decked out. Love you bunches. 🎈🎉

07/22/2024

ATHENA

First half of her gun intro went flawless. This girl is all business. Next weekend we will be doing her second half and be that much closer to her graduating!

07/19/2024

07/15/2024

Registration is open for the first HerUpland northeast region event of the year!! Bring you and your dog(s) for an over night camping trip to western Pennsyltucky. Full of dog training, clay shootin’ and laughter (with a chance of tail gate dancing). This event is open to members and non-members, beginners to advance. The link is in my bio and below for registration:
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/0db03998-c1d9-4bb8-88b8-7d0741a7dd8e

•if you have any questions please email at [email protected] or PM her Amie Heben Can’t wait to see yall soon! 🧡🐾🪶

07/08/2024

Force Fetch Table is up and running!
Some modifications need done but to get started we are ready to rock and roll. The Lonesome Willow Gundogs Crew will be starting this journey and process. Nervous and excited but we will get through this with some mentorship from
Stay tuned for updates on how the boys and I progress and learn together. 🙌🙌🧡🦾🪶

07/04/2024

06/28/2024

Happy 35th birthday to the man behind the scenes. The one that makes everything smoother. Love you to pieces my dear! 🥳🎉🎈

06/20/2024

Happy 9th anniversary to the best hunting partner out there . You are such a kind soul. Thank you for being my biggest supporter, thank you for making sure my dreams come true, thank you for pushing me to do better, thank you for always teaching me new things and to do it on my own, thank you for caring for the birds I train with, thank you for being the best Duck, Dog, Pigeon, Upland bird, Cat, and Chicken Dad. Thank you for being you. I couldn’t of asked for a better person to spend my life with. I’m so glad I get to hang out with my best friend everyday. Here is to many more years of our crazy life together. 💕🥰🎉

05/17/2024

NIKKI SPENCER

Owner and Operator of Lonesome Willow Gundogs LLC

Nikki Spencer is the owner and trainer at Lonesome Willow Gundogs (Dog Training/Breeding). She might be a newbie at the professional dog training world but that doesn’t stop her from pursuing her dreams. She began her dog journey when she was younger running beagles in field trials with her aunt and uncle. She fell in love with the connection you get with a working dog. She then fell ill with childhood ovarian cancer and was unable to continue with field trials. In her adult life she found out about Shorthairs from her Husband’s friend. She then got her first bird dog and heart dog Monroe. He is the reason for everything she strives to achieve. That fall started the first hunting season. It also was the start of founding the Lonesome Willow Gundog Club.

Since then, she is always striving to learn and see how other people’s training differs from her own and how to improve. Anything birddog she loves to learn about whether that be a podcast, seminar, hand-on, books, or events. Always a student “There is a thousand ways you can teach one command.”

She enjoys training her personal dogs for hunt tests, dock diving, shed hunting, as well as taking them out upland hunting and soon to be waterfowl hunting. This will be Monroe’s 5th season and her two younger dogs Archer and Ramsey’s 2nd season.

Learn more about Lonesome Willow Gundogs and Nikki by visiting her website ( https://www.lwgundogs.com )

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05/06/2024

11 dogs and the lwgundog boys double down on a chukar in a clump of grass. “There’s no way there’s a chukar in there”
There was indeed a chukar in there 👏

05/02/2024

Happy National Purebred Dog Day!!! 🧡🙌🙌🐾🪶🥰

04/02/2024

We had an awesome day being apart of the dog clean up crew for God's Country Upland Preserve tower shoot over the weekend. This was the first time we have ever done anything like this, where the dogs had to wait to go get the bird. You could get the birds that landed behind the stations but not in front until the stations switched places and shooting had stopped. Mo was a retrieving machine. By the end he was off leash and waited for his release word to go after the bird. So proud of our teamwork. 🙌🙌🪶🐾🧡🦾

04/02/2024

We had an awesome day being apart of the dog clean up crew for tower shoot over the weekend. This was the first time we have ever done anything like this, where the dogs had to wait to go get the bird. You could get the birds that landed behind the stations but not in front until the stations switched places and shooting had stopped. Mo was a retrieving machine. By the end he was off leash and waited for his release word to go after the bird. So proud of our teamwork. 🙌🙌🪶🐾🧡🦾

03/31/2024

Had an absolute blast doing our hunt at God's Country Upland Preserve The boys came to play. They were all rockstars. Monroe and Archer worked amazing together. Arch even slid into a point slamming on his brakes too hard. I can’t wait to start up training season and see how well this fall goes.

03/26/2024

Shouting Happy Birthday at the top of my lungs to one of the most badass women I know. You are a force to be reckoned with. Your laugh is contagious and you have a crazy obsession with camping out in your truck with the dogs. I am here for it all. You are one of my people I hold dearest to my heart. I love hearing “grab me a beer and let’s run these dogs.” Everyday with you is an adventure and I’m here for it. Within less than a year you’ve become ones of my best friends. I thank you for so many things and can’t wait to see what this year brings you. Thank you for being you and grinding out life with me. I love you Amy and happy birthday again! 🎉🎈🪶🐾🐩💥🧡😘

03/16/2024

Thank you again for your hospitality and mentorship in making me become a better trainer and making these shorthairs better. I am always looking for ways to learn and improve. I cannot wait to see what this training season brings. Chris Parry and Kiira Parry are incredible at what they do and as a newbie I only strive to someday be at their level. As I grow I know I can turn to these two for guidance. So thank you again for your mentorship and most importantly friendship. Here’s to the best season yet! 🐾🪶🧡