Great Expectations Retrievers

06/23/2024

06/18/2024

OFA eye check ups 🫶🏽 im over the moon that dr. millichamp is providing this service again. He has the best bedside manner around!

06/12/2024

Busy summer days ❤️ eating, swimming and napping

06/12/2024

Bunny ❤️

06/01/2024

Hardy ❤️ is so kind and handsome

If you’re interested in adding a gsp puppy to your family. Contact me for an interview.

05/28/2024

Done both. The former beats the hell out of the latter.

05/21/2024

Almost done with training. Shadow goes home Friday. This was during a private lesson for his momma. He came in extremely fearful and defensive. This was his first time to mainstreet so He still has a bit of stress panting going on (he was not hot) with ears pinned back but body is so much more relaxed and he is not bolting, growling, barking or reactive. Although this will be an ongoing process to establish new behaviors, trust and relationships he is doing sooooo good walking with his momma❤️

05/20/2024

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05/20/2024

Teddy enjoying the shade at market street cafe. What will it be like this summer holy cow! 🥵

05/17/2024

I hope everyone is safe from the storms. There were tornadoes and lots of hail close by but other than crazy wind we are all good. If you need your roof checked out elite can get you taken care of.

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05/12/2024

Baby stormi. Shes so cute!

05/07/2024

If you are looking to add a puppy or young adult Labrador or German shorthair pointer to your family reach out for a quality referral

05/03/2024

Over and over I’ve seen owners struggling with the same issue. The early phases of the reactivity sequence seem benign, or at the very least so mild that it would be unfair to correct them for it.

Unfortunately, these early phases or stages are anything but benign. They’re the required initial steps your dog must go through to get to the dreaded big stuff that all of you struggling with seriously reactive dogs know so well.

Which is why if you your dog has reactivity issues, the very best practice you can get into is requiring your dog to simply keep their mind—and eyes—on their own business. Scanning for trouble and “mad-dogging” other dogs has to be removed from the menu.

If you learn to correct your dog for any untoward looking, and you do so with tools your dog cares enough about to actually stop the looking, you can actually stop this terribly predictable reactivity sequence in its tracks.

After all, that’s what most great dog trainers do, and it’s what most amazed owners think of as “magical” timing. Alas, there is no magic, just a keen awareness of how all this plays out.

04/25/2024

Cookie, Hardy and Kimber

04/24/2024

Midway through the week- baby earl getting ready to go home from a week of puppy training. Puppies getting ready to meet their families this weekend 😢 and upon completion of training Ollie had his go home lesson with his mom and then we had a great lunch with my cousin. Ollie was a rockstar. I do still have a few obedience openings available for the summer.

04/21/2024

If you pay attention to enough dog training posts and comments, you’ll notice an interesting thing...

There’s a disturbing lack of care, support, or concern for the human.

You’ll find a never ending supply of the above for the dog, but the human...nah, they must have somehow deserved what they got, or are getting. They’re painted as ignorant, lazy, and in some strange way, the enemy.

It’s deeply telling that the humans writing the posts and comments, find it almost impossible to actually care about other humans.

Who cares about the owner who’s been pulled to the ground, drug across the pavement, had muscles pulled, bones broken, fingers crushed, assorted puncture wounds and nasty gashes?

And this doesn’t even touch on the emotional fallout. Loads of stress, anxiety, fear are terribly commonplace. Having to rearrange your life to be able to walk your dog at a safe time. Not being able to safely have friends or family over. Romantic relationships getting caught in the crossfire. Hoping you don’t come home to a broken crate, and a destroyed house.

Yep, I’m a dog lover. But I’m also a human lover. That’s why I train the way I do, and why I recommend the tools I do. I want the best for both species. If training is going to work, it needs to work. It needs to be straightforward enough, simple enough, and replicable enough...for regular, everyday owners. Owners who aren’t trainers, and who don’t have 10 hours a day to devote to working some incredibly intricate and nuanced training.

Too many trainers continue to focus on the dogs, the art, and themselves. And while there’s nothing wrong with being artful and deeply thoughtful about the training process, if it’s not something your clients can or will duplicate, it’s simply a waste of time, and an exercise in self-indulgence.

The true art, the true nuance, and the true magic of great training is figuring out how to make something that IS complex and nuanced, as simple as possible. Not dumb, not unfair, not crude, but simple and replicable.

If trainers can make a shift and learn to see the human as at least as important as the dog, and at least as deserving of empathy and care and kindness, they might just find a new focus on their methods, and their tool choices. They might just find themselves realizing that owners who are happy and comfortable with their dogs, tend to keep their dogs. They tend to enjoy their dogs. They tend to give their dogs much better lives.

And if dogs are your passion, then perhaps when you realize they only thrive when cared for properly, you might leave the fancy, the complex, the ego-fueled lingo, mindset, and techniques at the door, and instead find what actually works for those who’ve asked for their help.

And maybe even do it with kindness and care. Just a thought.

04/18/2024

Hardy, Effie, puppies, caddy, lolly, Kimber and kid (horse)

04/18/2024

Ollie

04/10/2024

GE Notmycircus Ismymonkey “coco”
(Barkeep x Caddy)

04/04/2024

Don’t take life or dog shows too seriously. Coco doesn’t lol. Reserve winners bitch today.

03/08/2024

For clients looking to add a gsp or Labrador puppy to your family message me privately for referral or recommendation.

02/29/2024

This ❤️

02/26/2024

I do have a few gsp’s available to the right home. Interviews will be conducted to place the right dog with the right family ❤️ message or text me with questions. Serious inquiries only!

For adoption: these dogs are super outgoing and love to be the center of attention.
-barkeep/ retired show champion male, 7 years old and neutered. Lacks the understanding of personal space and wants to cuddle.
-caddy/ retired show pointed female, 7 years old, spayed.
-Casey/ retired show champion male, 4 years old, neutered.

For sale
-striker/ 8 month old male, super sweet and cuddly, loves other dogs.
-breeze/ 8 month old female available to guardian home.
-lolly/ 2 year old liver female available to guardian, companion or hunting home.

Formal obedience is available at a discount rate.

02/14/2024

We have been feeding next level for the last few months and I’m really liking it!

02/06/2024

02/05/2024

This is what training looks like. Creating and Reinforcing behaviors even when it seems harmless to get up and say hi. Zeke is doing so good- we’ve worked on general anxiety, crate anxiety, confidence and environmental stability, obedience, nail trims, working in public etc. not perfect but sooooooo much better. He’s super sweet

PSA: a lot of times I post and share from my personal page because I can only post one video/pic at a time here.