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Team Eukanuba, consisting of several top owners and trainers, represents Eukanuba in various competitive sporting trials around the country. Select a team member to learn more about them.
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Mike Berube, Owner/Operator of Long Pond Kennel & Guide Service, has been training full time professionally since 2001. Prior to 2001, was a full-time guide/trainer at a shooting/hunting preserve. Berube runs a string of 16 dogs with an emphasis on gun dog training and AKC hunt tests. He resides in Northern New England (Cornish, Maine), but also conducts winter training in southern Georgia (January-April).
Berube performs limited breeding of Chesapeake Bay Retrievers and Labrador Retrievers. His Long Pond dogs have been featured in advertisements for Eukanuba, Bayer Advantix and AKC.
His biggest achievements/accomplishments have been qualifying dogs to run at the Master National every year since 2002. He has entered and qualified dogs at every Master National event entered in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008 and achieved MNHOF title on God's Speed Thunder Struck.
On training he believes, "Personally, the best feeling as a trainer comes when I return a dog to a client knowing they have a well-trained dog suitable to hunt in any area of the country."
After trying a number of different major brands, he has fed Eukanuba exclusively since 1995.
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Mark Fulmer of Sarahsetter Kennels offers training for the discriminating sportsman or dog owner. For 16 years, Sarahsetter has consistently provided high-quality gentle training for pointing dogs, upland Retrievers and flushing dogs. Mark specializes in the early development of the Setters that he sells as puppies.
Visit Sarahsetter Kennels.
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At an early age Tera was exposed to the outdoors and many hunting adventures. Growing up in the marshes of Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron in Michigan, Tera grew fond of duck and goose hunting. Always having a love for dogs, Tera began working and guiding pheasant hunts at a local preserve after high school graduation. This experience and passion for working over good hunting dogs developed into a journey of knowledge, seeking out other trainers, reading material and attending seminars to better learn the trade of training dogs. Tera quickly learned that her true calling was developing and enhancing the natural abilities of young Retrievers.
Currently, Tera is the owner/trainer of Bay Blue Kennels , wintering in Giddings, Texas, and summering in AuGres, Michigan. Bay Blue Kennels is a Retriever kennel focused on developing young competitive Retrievers for hunt tests, field trials and working gun dogs. "Our motive at Bay Blue is to train, train, train!!! Bay Blue Kennels trains only 12 dogs between the ages of 6 and 18 months, with one puppy in our early start program. We concentrate on providing your Retriever with the tools and knowledge to be a big dog."
To this day, Tera continues to educate herself in order to stay abreast of the constant changes in our Retriever sport. This enables Tera to evolve with the increased difficulty of the tests the dogs are put up against and to stay competitive in all venues. Bay Blue Kennels invites you to explore our various training programs to see which best suits your next Retriever puppy.
Visit Bay Blue Kennels at: http://www.baybluekennels.com.
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At 16, R.J. became a professional bird dog trainer, and by 18, he had earned his first field championship. At 19, he became the youngest person ever to win the National Canadian Chukkar Championship. Nearly 20 years later, R.J. is still training and field trailing pointing dogs at his Quicksilver Kennels in Moses Lake, Washington. R.J. has won more than 60 AKC, CKC and AF Championships. One of his most amazing feats is R.J.'s record of winning with eight different breeds of pointing dogs – Gordon Setters, English Setters, Irish Setters, English Pointers, German Wirehaired Pointers, German Shorthaired Pointers, Vizsla and Brittanys. He received the English Setter of the Year title for three straight years.
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Tom Oblinsky started his dog career training search and rescue dogs for the USAF. Along with search and rescue he worked with drug enforcement. While on active he started a small business training Labrador Retrievers for hunting. Toward the end of his career with the USAF, Tom found his way into AKC field trials and hunt tests. He has run dogs in hunt tests and field trials from coast to coast. His biggest accomplishment was reaching 401 overall master passes last year, while his most memorable accomplishment is reaching 67 out of 69 master passes with one dog named Pearl. Tom has a great passion for his dogs and has since he started in 1992. Tom's number one core value is respecting your dog.
See Tom's dogs powered by Eukanuba at www.triplethreatretrievers.com.
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In December of 2001, George Shaw opened Stony Point Kennels for business, offering general pet boarding and Retriever training. They are located in Shenandoah, Iowa, which is in the very southwest portion of the state. One achievement that he is very proud of is not losing focus of the fact that "every dog counts." Many trainers push for winning trials or qualifying for a national, and in the process "wash out" dogs that don't live up to those high standards. There are probably less than 2,000 Retrievers that qualify each year for national events offered by the different organizations. But the way George sees it, AKC alone registers around 200,000 Labradors each year. He wants to give the same effort to the weekend hunter who just wants a hunting dog. Years after the fact, he gets emails, cards and photos from owners who are bragging on their successful season. George feels Eukanuba is the best food he can feed, period. He strongly encourages his clients to keep with Eukanuba when they are feeding at home.
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I was born in California in 1966 into a dog family. My mother got her first field trial dog when I was 4 years old. Throwing birds was always a part of my life, however I didn't start running dogs until after college. (B.S. University of Northern Colorado).
My first trial dog was a hand-me-down from my Mom. Hawk and Mom didn't see eye to eye on things so I was lucky enough to run him. The first trial I ran was the Open at Idaho Retriever Club, dropped on the water blind. By the end of that year Hawk was a Field Champion and we ran seven series in the 1989 National Open. All this before I ever ran a Derby, Qualifying or a hunt test. This dog opened my eyes to my future.
In 1990 I moved to Oregon to begin working for Jerry Patopea. While there, I did anything to learn more about training Retrievers. Jerry had a great crew of dogs then (FC AFC Aces High II, FC AFC Circuit Madam, FC AFC Midnight Code Breaker, FC AFC Westwinds Mighty Mo among others). During my time with Jerry, he won the high point open award twice and had 15 National finalists. This got me fired up to do the same thing.
In 1994 I started my own business in Colorado. I arrived with one paying dog. Within the first year my truck was full. In 1996 I was lucky enough to finish my first National as a pro with FC AFC St. Croix Pelican. Since then I have had 50+ Open wins, successfully trained 18 Field Champions, made numerous Qualified All Age dogs and have had many dogs on the Derby list. My clients have also been very successful with 50+ Amateur wins. We have qualified for many Nationals, with six finalists. (FC AFC St. Croix Pelican, FC AFC Teal McKenzie II MH, FC AFC Tartan Prime Time, FC AFC Mizpah Miss-both National Open and two-time National Amateur)
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