About High Desert Retrievers

What they offer

High Desert Retrievers is a gun dog and hunt test training facility near Fruita. Its programs are Gun Dog Basics, a six-month program that builds a reliable retriever through obedience, marking development and realistic hunting scenarios; Advanced Retriever Training for marks and blinds toward a finished dog; and Championship Training for dogs competing in HRC and AKC hunt test events.

The facility

The about page describes forty acres with four technical ponds, a spring-fed creek and grass fields of varied terrain, a climate-controlled kennel with shaded airing yards, and staff living on site.

How they train

The program emphasizes patience, guidance and reinforcement, lets each dog learn at its own pace, and builds each phase on the one before.