Treasure Lake
Chesapeakes
Training program:
I started training
my husband Ray's Chesapeake Bay Retriever with Bob Reckart because
after working with Bob, Ray got busy at work and couldn't continue the
lessons. So I took over Bears lessons. After working
through several typical Chesapeake problems with me, Ray tried to run
Bear in a test and it back fired, Bear wouldn't work for Ray. So
I ran him in his next test and Bear passed. I continued Bears
training through senior hunter. I got Ray another Chesapeake
since Bear wouldn't work for him any more, Glacier Bay. After
training Glacier Bay, the same thing happened she wouldn't work for
Ray. I was having fun learning from Bob and running "Ray's" dogs
at tests. Then came along Kodiak, Ray decided since I had stolen
his first two dogs that Bob would do all the training on Kodiak.
That left me without something to do since Glacier Bay achieved her
master hunter title. I started taking friends dogs to train for
fun. I then found Polar, she was tons of fun to work with, but
never went past her junior hunter title because of a small little tic
and an incurable disease. Again back to training friends
dogs. Those friends then started to pay me for my training.
Bob started taking in more work then was humanly possible to get done
in a day and I started working full time with him to get those dogs
trained. Still having a great time working with so many different
personalities and talents. Before I knew it I started taking
dogs home and training daily with Bob. People other than my
friends started sending me dogs. A career was born. Since
I've had many great years working with Bob training dogs.
My degree from Ohio State University is actually in
Race Horse Training and Breeding Horses. I've owned many horses
and competed in western riding, english riding and jumping. I
worked for a public riding stable for close to 15 years taking care of
the horses and giving lessons. So wasn't hard to take what I
learned from college and transfer it to dogs. I've always owned
horses and dogs and trained my own dogs for obedience and conformation
showing. Over the years I've read numerous books on training,
breeding, genetics, behavior, conformation and just about anything else
I can get my hands on in the dog world.
Ray and I both enjoy hunting for waterfowl and
deer. I train dogs during the summer months and breed my
chesapeakes for litters during the winter months. .
At
Treasure Lake Kathy Heintel trains a wide variety of dogs, not just Chesapeakes. Although Kathy specializes
in
training Chesapeake Bay Retrievers to hunting
titles, Kathy also enjoys training
Labradors, Golden Retrievers, Pointers and Setters, for hunting, hunting titles, field trials,
basic
obedience, and to be well behaved household members.
We train
show dogs as well as hunting dogs. We know how to keep your show dog fit and in ring form while field
training.
We use a
low pressure
retrieving training method. Dogs are obedience trained, taught to hold and
force fetched, then positive reinforced for
good performance. This results in a
willing and able retriever. Even hard
to train dogs can be willing and able retrievers.
Our program
includes obedience, ground work to start the dog handling for blinds,
water retrieving, and land retrieving. Dogs can compete for
their Junior, Senior, Master hunter titles or their Field Trial
titles. Or your dogs can just be a great dog to take along on
your personal hunting trips or walks to the park.