Mudd Creek Sporting Dogs

02/10/2025

Chess picked up some hardware this weekend! He was awarded the High Point dog in the puppy division! For the 2024 winter informal field trial series at Central Minnesota Retriever Club. Way to go Chess!!

01/09/2025

Good work!

12/31/2024

11/05/2024

Congrats To Hand crew!! She's a beaut!

We would like to introduce the newest member of the THR crew! To Hands Load Up Let’s Scout! Call name Scout! She’s going to be a fun one!

10/07/2024

Had a blast squeaking in one last HRC hunt test weekend this season all the way down in New Athens, Illinois at Retrievers Unlimited event. The weather was beautiful and the grounds even more so!

Out of the six dogs that came with To Hand Retrievers and ourselves we were able to bring 9 ribbons home with us, even with Tiki coming into her heat cycle on day one. Fortunately, the great staff at Retrievers Unlimited allowed us to run the test very last and make the weekend a blast for her as well without distracting other competing dogs.

We will be back next year!!

Great jobs Stella, Chess, Cash, Miko, Kona and Tiki! And Great handling Anthony with T.H.R.

10/02/2024

We recently welcomed back Cash here at THR! He’s going through our intermediate gun dog program! We are excited to get him to the next level!

10/02/2024

This handsome boy Miko arrived here at THR this week. He’s here for our fetch and hold conditioning program.

09/04/2024

08/29/2024

Rainy is really progressing nicely!

08/27/2024

Awww Cardi! She is such a lover. We are so proud of her accomplishments.

Sometimes the hunt test game isn't for every dog but we are super happy of Cardis accomplishments and finding her niche. Every pup has a task and purpose they were made for and we are thrilled that she found hers.

We would also like to introduce Cardi! This is a special one for us at THR. Cardi is her to start her journey as a therapy dog for a little 9 year old girl with special needs. We are working with to present this little girl with Cardi!

08/27/2024

Such a good girl!

Say hello to Rainy! This beautiful pup is here for our 2 week bird and gun introduction and to work on some obedience.

08/20/2024

Mudd Creek Sporting Dogs is proud to present...

SHR Mudd Creeks White Lightning Whiskey

Whiskey earned his SHR UKC Title this past weekend in Morehead and completed another test flawlessly! Couldn't be happier for you bud, a lot of time, sweat and practice went into getting us this far.

Shout out to To Hand Retrievers for exceptional training. We would have never made it this far in the game without their expertise and gun dog programs.

Check out To Hand Retrievers for all your training needs from hunting to obidience, he will treat you right. And reach out to ourselves if you're ready to add a new member of your family and we will find you the perfect match!

08/20/2024

Proud of you pups!

08/10/2024

Many people are ✨shocked✨ to see that my dogs aren’t super dog-friendly. They’re a dog trainer’s dog, how can they be so mean?

“Mean” because they don’t run up to other dogs, mean because they aren’t dying to meet your dog, mean because they don’t tolerate inappropriate behavior..

To me, they’re an example of dogs with healthy boundaries and relationships to others. It seems to be the “norm” for a lot of dog owners to expect other dogs to tolerate all of their own dog’s behavior. If your child was being harassed by another child, would you tell them to tolerate it? Of course not; we would intervene and the same should be happening for our dogs.

Any inappropriate behavior (posturing, face licking, jumping, excessive sniffing), or really any behavior that makes the receiving dog uncomfortable, should be interrupted or punished.

This can happen in two ways: we intervene which is the preferred method. If your puppy is face-licking your older dog and your older dog isn’t enjoying it/is trying to get away, etc, it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to remove the puppy from the older dog. We should not except any dog to tolerate annoying behavior and we certainly don’t want to raise our puppies to continue this. Or if your male dog is excessively sniffing a female dog to the point she’s uncomfortable, you can interrupt or punish that with a “no,” a nick on the ecollar, separating them, etc. It is your responsibility to manage your own dog and advocate for others.

The other option is to allow the receiving dog to correct the inappropriate dog, but this is rarely efficient and should only happen under very strict circumstances. We never want to allow a dog we don’t know to correct our dog. There’s a good chance they won’t, which will teach tolerance, and there’s an equally good chance they will overcorrect, resulting in injury or fight.

Often a puppy is raised where other dogs are expected to tolerate behavior. One day the puppy runs up to a dog and starts behavior that they’ve rehearsed, the new dog doesn’t tolerate it and corrects the dog/starts a fight...

Read the full article here:

https://www.horizonretrievers.com/post/socialization-1

08/10/2024

Say hello to Zeus!!! He’s here for our 2 week obedience program! For being only a year old, he’s the size of a horse. Our obedience program is open to all breeds!