The Start
Raised by a veterinarian in a hunting family with multiple hunting dogs, Dan Ihrke’s exposure to animal science started early. He has been training flushing, retrieving, and pointing dogs at Green Acres Sportsman’s Club for 22 years, and has trained and bred many field and hunt test champions of multiple breeds.
In his first 10 years as a professional trainer, Dan developed a unique dog training program through applying his scientific background while training dogs. This program, affectionately and appropriatly named Gundog Success, focuses on using the dogs own instinct as positive reinforcement for the correct behavior. Each dog is evaulated as an individual and training is customized for the dogs unique personality.
The next 5 years were focused on educating multiple trainers that could consistently reproduce this training process. Only passionate, hardworking, intelligent individuals that have a true love for dog training receive the honor of being a Gundog Success trainer.
Gundog Success, takes on the challenge of training any breed of hunting dog, and many non-hunting domestic breed bringing each dog to their maximum potential.