Bird Dog Outdoors, St. George

07/20/2023

Before and after!

Copper Bird Dog Outdoors

05/09/2023

Started labs, price reduced by half! Needing to make kennel space for upcoming training dogs. Don't miss a chance to get a hold of a nice dog at a great price!

1 chocolate female
1 black female
1 yellow male

Call Ray at 785-313-1841

04/25/2023

Lightly started lab pups!

AKC registered and fully health tested parents.
These pups have been exposed to; live birds, retrieving and gun fire. Perfect age to hunt this coming season!
1 yellow male
1 chocolate female
1 black female

Contact Ray today!
785-313-1841

03/14/2023

Where's the bird?

Yukon River Bird Dog Kell JH X Pistol Annie Bird Dog

03/07/2023

For your consideration:
AKC Labrador Retrievers, almost 10 weeks old.
UTD on shots and wormings. Parents are fully health tested through OFA and Pawprint Genetics for genetic diseases, eyes, hips, and elbows.
8️⃣🖐🏻0️⃣

02/02/2023

The pups are going fast, only a few left.
Don't miss the chance to get your wife a new bird dog for Valentines Day!

01/17/2023

We still have some lab pups. Health tested and genetic disease clearances for both parents. Excellent Hips and Normal Elbows through OFA.
Ready for Valentines Day 💝 💕 💓

St George KS

01/01/2023

"Newt"

Yukon River Bird Dog Kell JH X Pistol Annie Bird Dog

We only have a few pups left from our current litter! Give us a call 785-477-3653

12/22/2022

"Bruno" is a full sibling to the pups that were born today. He is a handsome 80lb boy! Enjoying his family in Colorado.

12/22/2022

Ready for Valentines Day!
2 Chocolate Females, 1 Chocolate Male, 1 Yellow Female 1 Yellow Male, 2 Black Females

Yukon River Bird Dog Kell JH X Pistol Annie Bird Dog

Full health and genetic disease clearances.

785-477-3653

11/30/2022

Russ is looking good!

11/15/2022

Pistol Annie Bird Dog living her best life.

09/25/2022

07/25/2022

This year we will have a few started labs to choose from.
All will be introduced to gunfire, live & dead birds, retrieve on water and land, collar conditioned and force fetched. Will be ready in September, just in time for dove season! Males & females.

All will be going through our started dog program. They are from two different litters but all have the same sire. All parents have been health tested and cleared through PawPrint Genetics and OFA. Parents are also great upland and waterfowl dogs, and have pointing lineage.

Yukon 85 lbs
Annie 65 lbs
Sitka 70 lbs

Reserve yours for the upcoming season!

If you are interested in them before the training, please give us a call.
785-477-3653
www.birddogoutdoors.com

06/23/2022

16 week old lab pups available! Have been introduced to birds, retrieving on land and water, exposed to gunfire. Contact us for more info. 785-477-3653

1 yellow female
1 yellow male
1 black male

05/26/2022

Yukon X Annie pup living his best life in Connecticut

05/04/2022

Join us for a day of fun and all things bird dog!! Upland or waterfowl, new or seasoned, young or old. We wanna see you there! Sign up below.

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04/07/2022

13 puppies!!

4 yellow females
3 chocolate females
2 black female
2 yellow males
2 chocolate males

Yukon River Bird Dog Kell JH X Sitka Cove Bird Dog

04/05/2022

WE ARE FULL for the whole 2022 training season at BOTH locations. Thank you to all our clients that have signed up for our started dog programs.

03/27/2022

Yellow males and females available
Black males available
Chocolate male available

Contact us

02/28/2022

10 puppies!!!!

Yukon River Bird Dog Kell JH X Pistol Annie Bird Dog

02/19/2022

Trainee Trixie the GSP!

02/08/2022

**UPDATE APRIL IS NOW FULL** The other days are filling up fast!

Sign up today!

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01/31/2022

Trainee Katy doing her owners proud!

08/28/2021

I have had a TON of calls this week for Spring training. We are filling up fast. With those calls are questions regarding gun introduction. "How do I make sure my pup won't be gun shy?" "How and when do I start shooting around my new pup?"

For whatever reason the Bird Dog Blog has been disabled. Until I figure our why, here's our blog post regarding those important questions! There are a million ways to introduce them, this is what we do with our own dogs.

Got a new bird dog pup and scared you might "mess them up"? Maybe end up with a dog that’s gun shy..or doesn’t like birds? You’ve come to the right place. At Bird Dog Outdoors we not only provide professional training services but we also love giving people who need a helping hand some advice!

What does gun shy mean? The technical definition of gun shy (especially of a hunting dog) is being alarmed at the report of a gun. In my experience I've seen it as minut as the dog slightly flinching... or on the flip side I've have seen it so bad that the dog even becomes afraid of the bird.

Upland game or waterfowl? Either way your pup is going to need to be comfortable and confident around gunfire. This process CAN be done at any age, but usually it is a heck of a lot easier to do when they are younger (3-8 months old).

You do your research and finally figure out what kind of breed you want. After that, you bring home a super cute bouncy little pup. Now what? The first thing we always work on is socialization. The definition of Socialization means learning to be part of society. When we talk about socializing pet puppies, it means helping them learn to be comfortable within human society - which is a society that includes many different types of people, environments, buildings, sights, noises, smells, animals and other dogs. The key part of that is not only the people and environments but also other dogs. When your bird dog gets older there is a pretty good chance that you will, at some point, be hunting with someone else and their dog.

You never know if your best hunting buddy is going to invite his cousins-nephews-neighbors-brother to the weekend hunting trip and oh by the way, he is bringing along his dog too!

What we do with our young pups is introduce them to different dogs; all shapes, sizes, ages, breeds and temperaments. Which honestly for some people is easier said than done. For us, we are fortunate to have (a lot of) other dogs of our own to socialize with our new puppies, but for those that do not have others of your own still have options! You can reach out to some of your friends and schedule doggy play dates, take your new pup to PetSmart or even the dog park! Wondering what the dog park has to do with introducing your bird dog to guns? Bear with us... When your pup is properly socialized with they will be more confident within themselves. A lack of confidence in a dog can lead to behavioral issues such as; nervousness, agressition, aniexty and -> gun shy!

Ever heard of "banging pots and pans around your puppy while they are eating"? As cliche as that sounds, that is actually really good advice. Obvisously you don't want to over do it, but maybe (if your pup lives inside) while he is eating put the dishes away and maybe close the cabinets a little louder than normal (make sure you forewarn your spouse, haha). For us, we usually don't keep puppies inside so what we do is we hang metal trash can lids in their pens so that when they step on it it will make a loud banging noise. Be creative! If something doesn't work with your pup try a different route.

Before breaking out any actual guns, we always introduce our young pups to birds. The reason for that is if the pup does turn out to be gun shy you do not want them to associate the birds with something they are afraid of. Instead you want them to LOVE the birds enough that the guns don't even phase them. Bird introduction can be many different ways, whether that is a live bird, a frozen bird or just a bird wing. {I will eventually be posting short videos on each of these options, don't forget to subscribe to our channel!} Depending on what kind of training you are wanting to work on, determines which option you want to use..for instance.. If you want to work on pointing you would use a bird wing -> DON'T LET THEM CATCH IT. If you want to work on retrieving you would use the frozen bird and if you want to work on scent work (the pup finding the bird on it's own) you would use a live bird. Remember to make bird work fun. You want your pup to want to train.

After the spunky little pup is around 5-8 months old, well socializied and is all about the birds we then move on to using "actual gun". I use to quotation marks because we will always use a starter pistol first. A starter pistol is a hand gun that only shoots blanks, commonly used at swimming races or track meets. They are quieter and less startling than a shotgun. Starting off at 50 or so yards away from your young bird dog while they are playing or chasing their favorite toy or even flushing a live bird. Just make sure to pay attention to their reactions to know if you can move in closer or need to move farther away.

Sometimes no matter what you do you unfortunatly can still end up gun shy dog. BUT if you work with your dog on the fundamentals and watch your dogs reactions to make sure you aren't pushing them too hard or too fast, you should see amazing results.

08/26/2021

Upland Trainees looking good!

08/25/2021

Trainee Buddy working on working with other dogs in the field! Doing great.

08/16/2021

Bird Dogs, Bird Dogs, Bird Dogs.

These trainees aren't looking half bad!
Pepper, Buddy, The Duke and Marley.