![]() ![]() We have worked with Ann for several months now, and recently adopted another dog (Randi, a 65-lb great dane-boxer mix), and can’t wait to take Randi to Good Dog Rising to work with Ann. This allows all 5 of us to reinforce Leo’s training while we are at home (and the kids absolutely LOVE it). Whatever we want to work on, Ann creates a fun, unique environment to not only teach Leo but to teach US how to teach Leo. CORRECTION – we are STILL in awe every time we go. My sons refer to Ann as the ‘magic lady’ because she has worked nothing short of magic on Leo starting from the very first session. ![]() We were all hooked after the first session. us walking him, etc.), and due to his size, we needed some quick help.Īlthough there are a variety of group training classes offered, we opted for individual training sessions so we could focus on issues specific to Leo and also so my entire family (husband & 3 young sons) could attend and actively participate. We first consulted with Ann after adopting our dog, Leo (a 90-lb bull mastiff-boxer mix), and seeing some concerns (going crazy over anything with wheels, walking us vs. He’s that way with people and horses, too.Where do I begin? Until working with Ann Withun, we really had no experience with dog training.and honestly didn't understand the benefits. “He understands how to bring the best out in dogs, and to put them in a position for success. “Luke has a quiet confidence that comes from years of smart and hard work,” she says. He knows dogs, he plans his work and works his plan, and his success takes care of itself.” Claudia McNamee, who owns several dogs Eisenhart runs, first met him on the circuit fifteen years ago. “Records live and opinions die,” Gates says, “and Luke’s coming on strong. ![]() John Rex Gates-who in 1978 became the youngest inductee to the Field Trial Hall of Fame-sees similarities between himself and Eisenhart. Good owners provide good dogs to work, while generous landowners provide access to fields full of wild birds.” He also credits Tommy Davis, his scout-the person who helps keep dogs on track during the trials-who happens to be his father-in-law and a Hall of Famer himself. Of course, Eisenhart says, “winning is a team effort. “Dogs run for three hours, and during that time there is always a lot that can go wrong.” “Winning the National was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream,” Eisenhart says. He handled Dunn’s Tried N True (call name Jack), a white, orange, and ticked six-year-old pointer owned by Kentucky’s Will and Rita Dunn, to capture the sport’s top award. Eisenhart’s biggest victory came in February on a muddy course at Tennessee’s Ames Plantation-the National Championship, the mother of all field trials. This year Eisenhart won his sixth Purina Top All-Age Handler award, a new record-his mentor Robin Gates held the previous record of five wins. Read the latest article written in the Field Trial Magazine. View Midnight Kennel on WNEP PA Outdoor Life. The South is to the All-Age field trials what the SEC is to college football, and so Eisenhart and his family moved from his native Pennsylvania to the epicenter of the action: Albany, Georgia, where his wife, Tammy, was raised.Īll of the conditioning, training, and running on wild birds that followed led to triumph. We strive to breed, develop, and train top flight field trial and gun dogs Check out the Midnight Kennel Podcast archives here on the website or listen in weekly on Spotify. Over the past twenty years, he’s won more than a hundred championships, and after his success in the “shooting dog” category of field trials, he decided to enter the most elite circuit: the All-Age Stakes, in which top dogs of any age can compete. “I’ve never thought of doing anything else.” That singular focus has made him something of a shooting star himself. “All I’ve ever wanted to do was to work dogs,” Eisenhart, who is now forty-one, says. By the time Eisenhart was fifteen, he was training dogs on his own after school, and eventually he took over the business from Pap. He ran his first campaign then, and his dog Rocky River Rambo won him his first amateur trial. “I come from a long line of excellent dogmen,” Eisenhart says.Īt age seven, Eisenhart began learning from Pap, and his uncle George Tracy, too-both inductees to the National Bird Dog Museum’s Field Trial Hall of Fame. He’s traveled from South Georgia to these cooler climes to work a string of thirty-five English pointers and setters, either for eventual competition or for hunters across the country, as part of his Trachaven Kennels program, which his grand father Gerald “Pap” Tracy established a half century ago. Soaking it all in from atop Patrón, his Tennessee walking horse, is professional dog trainer and handler Luke Eisenhart. On a clear night you’re bound to see a shooting star. Enormous green fields extend nearly forever, studded with bursts of sunflowers. Hills roll on and on under a giant blue sky, and when the winds gust, the sweet smell of wheat, alfalfa, and corn silage fills the air. S ummertime on the South Dakota prairie is stunningly gorgeous. ![]()
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