Long Hollow Bird Dogs - Washington Labrador Retriever Breeders

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Gun Dog Training for all breeds of Pointing Dogs.

Labrador Retriever

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Ryan Fortier
Ellensburg, Washington 98926

Breeding quality gun dogs for over 6 years.

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Ryan,

I wanted to send you an update on Kimber. Reminder: she was sold to me this summer as Belle. She is a great family dog and is developing nicely into a great bird dog. She is currently 6 weeks into a 3 month training program. Most of the pics are from the trainer. In the months she was at our house we quickly fell in love with her. My 5 year old daughter took a particular liking to her. Without too much training on my part she would naturally point, retrieve "most" of the time, and swim like retriever! Now with her trainer she is being refined. She started force fetch this week. All in all a great dog that myself and my family are very happy with. Please feel free to use me as a reference. I'll try to keep you up to date with info as she returns home and we hunt whats left of this season and seasons to come! Thanks Again.

Rich Bott
Park City, UT

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Ryan, thank you for the update, sounds like your operation is going well.

A quick note, you spent about 10 days with my 2 year old lab Jake getting him accustomed to birds a few months back. I just returned from N Dakota where he tracked, pinned, pointed, flushed and retrieved numerous roosters (catching 2 w/o the aid of the gun) over 3 days. Performed like a pro and the work you did with him obviously had him effective the moment he left the tail gate – many thanks.

All the best

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Ryan, I wanted to publicly thank you for having me over to your open training session even though I haven't put River on your trailer. The amount of assistance, guidance, and just watching a pro at work far outweighed any help throwing I provided you, definitely worth the drive. Thanks for keeping it simple yet very meaningful.

Feel free to use me as reference anytime.

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We love hunting for upland birds and waterfowl with our pup Kona! She is having a fantastic season and thank you Ryan for her first round of training. We look forward to working with you for more training for Kona!

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I'm Ryan's uncle and the proud owner of a 14 month old hunting poodle, Lola. She got her first duck, pheasant, quail and ruffed grouse last month thanks to Ryan.

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Tiger Mountain Cassandra(Cassie) 4yo

Tiger Mountain Blacks California Gold(Cali) 7mo

Both trained by Ryan, both fantastic!

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Ryan,

Luke had a very good 3 days in the Quilomene this past weekend.With a few minor corrections , he handled 10 or 11 coveys very well , and definitely figured it out .He improved as the weekend progressed.Found a lot of birds, and also had some nice long range backs on my partner Lee Hoepfinger's Setter.

At 1 year old Luke is an excellent wild bird dog handling Chukar, Huns, Sharptail, Pheasants and Quail. The more I hunt him the better he gets. I may field trial him some as he gets older - for now he is just getting lots of wild bird exposure.

Best Regards,

Tim Powell Emigrant , Mt.

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Hey Ryan,

Just thought you should know...... Little Scooter is a hell of a hunter. Once he rooted up his first big ol' rooster in two foot snow covered CRP grass and saw that big thing flushing away....... The game was on!! He is a hunting machine, he leaves no stone unturned. He'll check every rock, bush, hedge row to find those big old birds. He digs being able to point on the quail cause they don't go anywhere, but once he saw the size and how those roosters exploded from the cover..... He thought that was the coolest thing ever. Now, I can tell he's not to happy when the wild ones won't hold for him, but he's okay with it I think, I'm pretty sure it's all about the hunt for him. He's a smart little guy and is very easy to train. As you know, he's my first setter, but he's been very easy to instruct. He listens very well to me, getting him to sit, stay, lay down, kennel up, here, no, over there (with an arm movement right or left) has been no problem. I've only used the collar to hunt with him twice, that's cause he is ranging out a little too far for me. The wild roosters won't hold long enough for me to get there allot of times, so keeping him in a little closer to work with Mallard has worked out allot better for us as foot hunters.

Anyway, he's an awesome dog, Andi loves the little guy, he sleeps in the room with the rest of us on his dog bed (except when he jumps up on the
bed and curls up on my pillow). And he loves being able to run around all over the place over in Idaho.

Rob Hartnett
Woodinville, Washington

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Hi Ryan,

We are very happy with Jackie and she has fit into our life style very well. Georgia and Jackie are the best of friends, Georgia really loves her a bunch. Jackie has had some really nice points. I don’t have any new pictures of Jackie but I will get some of her pointing wild chukar in the near future.

Willie Hunter
Elko, Nevada

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Hi Ryan,

We just wanted to compliment you on your training. Kathy and Dave Wilson, and Dennis and I took Charlie and Gauge out hunting this weekend and you would have been amazed at how well they pointed and honored each other. We planted some pheasants and a couple other guys joined us on Sunday and they were really impressed at how well the two of them were working together. It was the first time they had seen a lab point and their comment was "that was beautiful". The Wilson's and us just wanted to thank you for a job well done. I know Gauge has a long way to go but he was sure working great this weekend. He also retrieved his first duck on the Columbia River on friday.

Thanks Again,
Dennis and Phyllis Laukala

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I have known Ryan Fortier and the Long Hollow Retriever family for over 10 years. During that time Ryan trained all 5 of my Gun Dogs (Siku, Jada, Herman, Bindy, Delta) and has run 2 of them successfully in AKC Junior and Senior Hunt Tests, and is now preparing two of them to run at the Master level...Along with my construction company I also run Bag Limit Guide Service....During the Fall and Winter we hunt Ducks as hard as anybody....With the guidance and training of Long Hollow Retrievers our dogs are always up to the task....

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Ryan's patience and versatility has been proven over the years....But no more then when we put our one year old Cockapoo through Long Hollow Retrievers obedience class...

Thanks to Ryan and Traci our family is now enjoying our little dog Amica...

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I have known Ryan now for 5 years now and couldn't ask for a better guy to teach me how to train and handle dogs. I have a 4 year old yellow female "Tori" would be nothing but a plug without Ryan's expertise and instruction. I will be running Tori in senior hunt test next spring. I really have no one but Ryan and Long Hollow Retrievers to Thank.

Curtis Johnson
Ellensburg, WA

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Since April of 2005, both my lab and my setter have been under Ryan Fortier’s direct tutelage from start to finish. My dogs are proficient on every upland species and waterfowl as well. However, the two together are a top notch one-two punch on chukar. The training that they have received from Ryan is second to none. Both dogs hunt to their full potential with style, and class. Ryan has also trained me on how to manage my dogs in the field, and help them keep maturing in a positive direction. As long as I own hunting dogs of any breed, they will go to school with Mr. Fortier.

JW
Issaquah, WA

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