Gun Dog Training

Private Coaching for Waterfowl and Upland Dogs.

One on one sessions for handler and dog together. Whether you're building a young dog from the ground up or cleaning up problems in a dog that hunts but doesn't perform the way you need, the work is specific to where you are.

Sessions are available at our Westwold facility where we keep birds on site, or at a location that makes sense for your situation. The handler is half the team — these sessions are built to develop both.

How the Program Works

Modern Methods. Old School Fundamentals.

Gun dog training at Chaos K9 draws on a background that most gun dog trainers don't have. The principles that drive elite performance in bite sports — drive development, engagement, reward structure, tug as a training tool — translate directly into building a gun dog with real enthusiasm for the work. Angie is one of the pioneers of integrating tug and bite sport methodology into gun dog training, and the results speak for themselves.

Retrieve training here doesn't follow the conventional playbook either. The methods are non-traditional, effective, and built around the individual dog — what motivates them, how they learn, and what produces a retrieve that holds up under pressure in real hunting conditions.

The fundamentals underneath all of it are proven and non-negotiable. Steadiness, marking, control, honoring — none of that changes. What changes is how you get there, and how willing the dog is once you do.

Sessions run one on one — you and your dog, working together. A gun dog that only performs for the trainer isn't useful to you in the field. The goal is a dog that responds to you, in the conditions you hunt, doing the job you need done.

What We Work On

Foundation & Steadiness

Marking, steadiness to wing and shot, honoring — the fundamentals that separate a hunting dog from a good hunting dog.

Field Obedience

Control in the field without killing the dog's drive. A dog that listens when it matters without losing the edge that makes it useful.

Retrieving

Force fetch, marking, blind retrieves — built correctly so it holds under pressure and in difficult conditions.

Upland Work

Range, pattern, quartering, point and backing — developed for the terrain and species you're actually hunting.

Waterfowl Work

Blind steadiness, marking multiple falls, cold weather and water conditioning — what it takes to be reliable in a duck blind.

Handler Development

Reading your dog, handling under pressure, and understanding why the dog does what it does — so you can work with it, not against it.