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EMNCEE Retrievers specializes in starting and developing young retrievers in the field. Clint’s goal is to produce a dog that is a joy to watch work.
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Clint has been training retrievers since the early 1980’s as an amateur after having competed in conformation and obedience since the late 1970’s. While interested primarily in the AKC Hunt Test program he has also participated in AKC Field Trials, UKC Hunt Tests and the Super Retriever Series. Clint has trained many different breeds including Golden Retrievers, Flat Coats, Curly Coats, Labradors,

Boykin Spaniels, Wired Hair Pointing Griffons and Field Pointers. Clint is also a licensed AKC Hunt Test Judge and has achieved Triple 8 Point Judge status. Clint went to Pro Trainer status after retiring from air traffic control in 2009. Clint trained his first Master Hunter, “Windy”, a Flat Coat Retriever, in the late 80’s. Since then he has achieved numerous Master Hunter, Senior and Junior titles on various breeds. Clint’s specialty is starting young dogs and teaching them the critical foundation work, i.e., force fetch, obedience, developing outstanding line manners, etc. These are the critical steps that must be done for the dog to make effective use of his marking skills and demonstrate great control on blinds – all while maintaining an upbeat, positive attitude. He focuses on getting as much performance out of each specific dog to bring out the most that that particular dog can give, while maintaining the dog’s positive attitude and great work ethic. During his career he has developed his training program utilizing successful techniques and methods he has learned from working with some of the top retriever trainers such as Mike Lardy, Dave Rorem, Pat Burns, Bill Hillman, Andy Attar, Jim Dobbs, Dan Devos, Dennis Voight and others. He has taken the best of all to develop his successful program, turning out numerous outstanding working dogs. Clint has recently relocated from his 40-acre training facility in Tennessee and is now located in North East Georgia. Currently Clint is only taking on a small number of dogs, which allows him to focus specifically on each individual animal’s strengths and weaknesses so that they can progress more rapidly and with better results. The duration of training needed per each animal varies greatly between breeds and between individual dogs. The main focus is to take your dog as far as you would like to go with him/her, with the only limiting factor being the actual talent the dog possesses.

18/09/2023

Some amazing shots of Indy by Depth of K9!

10/09/2023

This is the view from my bucket today!

09/09/2023

Some tollers having a blast retrieving water marks this week!

Amazing photography by Claire Schulz at Depth of K9

19/07/2023

We enjoyed hosting this obstacle 5k on the property!

Adventure Canine Challenge

It was fun doing something different and watching all kinds of dog breeds work through challenges with their owners.

We look forward to the next one!

Kelsey Page is the videographer who created this video!

03/06/2023

Wedding bells instead of duck calls today! ❤️

Congratulations to Clint and Mari!

It was a perfect, beautiful day for sharing vows on top of the hill overlooking the pond.

Boots was the ring bearer! 💍
Cash and Tink were the flower girls! 🌼

30/05/2023

Congratulations to everyone that raced with their dog this weekend!

Thank you to everyone for being respectful of the property. We will happily welcome everyone back for the next event!

Here are the top 4 from each race!

30/05/2023

The dogs were extra excited! Can you tell?

Adventure Canine Challenge

30/05/2023

All kinds of breeds showed up last weekend for the Adventure Canine Challenge!

30/05/2023

Hosted a canine obstacle course 5K with Adventure Canine Training this weekend!

We all had a blast doing something a lot different with the property! More photos and videos to come!

Adventure Canine Challenge

19/04/2023

Boots and Logan working on water marks this afternoon!

08/04/2023

More shots from today! Good looking group of dogs!

11/03/2023

Many dogs did good work today!

08/03/2023

These two tollers love training here!

Photos by Depth of K9

07/03/2023

The view from the pond at night 🌙

20/10/2022

Continued training preparation for the Grand.

19/10/2022

It’s been an eventful week of training here on this slice of heaven!

Many dogs and handlers working their tails off while getting ready for the HRC Grand!

Reach out if you’d like to come train. 🦆

19/10/2022

My photographer, video operator, drone pilot, training partner, musician friend, and overall great friend, Brooke O’Brien.

19/10/2022

Training day for the HRC Grand

19/10/2022

Prepping for the Grand #2

19/10/2022

Prepping for the HRC Grand at EMNCEE

19/10/2022

Beautiful day for some training! Big group of friends out here getting ready for the HRC Grand that’s being held in Smyrna, TN this weekend.

19/10/2022

Big group out here putting in the work today! 🦆

21/09/2022

Force table session with Peach the toller!

20/09/2022

Water blinds with Logan the toller!

20/09/2022

When it’s all said and done, the only thing that really satisfies is a good back scratch!!!

20/09/2022

Random shots of Boots working in the field.

20/09/2022

Boots water retrieve with duck.

20/09/2022

Y drill marks #2

20/09/2022

Y drill marks.

20/09/2022

Boots showing his impulsion during lining.

20/09/2022

Doing a little lining work with Boots.

05/09/2022

Tollers Logan and Peach having to focus for this exercise! Great way to practice honoring and steadiness at the line, but also fun!

31/08/2022

One last blast from the past for today!!! This is Bristol, who was a Master Hunter. She taught me a great deal about teaching technical water work. She had an amazing litter by Grady that produced some very nice puppies. The sign she is sitting under was the original sign at our pond. The pond was renamed, “Riann Shores”.

31/08/2022

Another blast from the past!!! Here is a nice group of dogs that I trained. BB, the golden retriever, Patty, the liver flat-coat, Karina, black jumping flat-coat, and also the flat-coat inbound with the bird in mouth.

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We enjoyed hosting this obstacle 5k on the property! Adventure Canine Challenge It was fun doing something different and watching all kinds of dog breeds work through challenges with their owners. We look forward to the next one! Kelsey Page is the videographer who created this video!

The dogs were extra excited! Can you tell? Adventure Canine Challenge

All kinds of breeds showed up last weekend for the Adventure Canine Challenge!

Great day of training! Thanks for coming out!

Continued training preparation for the Grand.

It’s been an eventful week of training here on this slice of heaven! Many dogs and handlers working their tails off while getting ready for the HRC Grand! Reach out if you’d like to come train. 🦆