Dog Years Training and Boarding Center, LLC

Dog Years Training and Boarding Center, LLC Professional training for companion dogs, pointers, flushers, and retrievers. First class boarding a

It was a long day, the weather went from chilly and raining to sunny and HOT.Zelly came out with a NAVHDA NA Prize 1 108...
04/24/2025

It was a long day, the weather went from chilly and raining to sunny and HOT.
Zelly came out with a NAVHDA NA Prize 1 108, with some of the best nose work in the field I think I've ever seen.

04/10/2025

It's been over a year since I've seen Radar. I wanted to see how much he remembered.
He definitely remembers.

04/07/2025

Thumper is learning the ways of high class Cockers!
Progressing very well in his training.

04/04/2025

Zelly has her NAVHDA Natural Ability Test at the end of the month.
I'm feeling really good about it.
Really good.

Zelly stuck this one in the woods.
03/30/2025

Zelly stuck this one in the woods.

Atta girl, Sage!
03/22/2025

Atta girl, Sage!

This is Sage. Sage is pointing birds. Sage was deemed "no kind of dog" by her former trainer.Well, dogs are great at sta...
03/18/2025

This is Sage. Sage is pointing birds. Sage was deemed "no kind of dog" by her former trainer.
Well, dogs are great at starting over if you give them an opportunity.

Pudelpointers are a favorite here.Zelly continues to reinforce that sentiment!
03/16/2025

Pudelpointers are a favorite here.
Zelly continues to reinforce that sentiment!

Zephyr learning birds like nasty cover.
03/09/2025

Zephyr learning birds like nasty cover.

03/07/2025

Before Thumper got here, he'd been throughly obedience trained with an e collar. He would dutifully heel off lead and politely move from one place board to another. He also wouldn't complete a retrieve and he would not go into any cover.
He has realized he can be a good boy AND have fun doing it, and now we are ready to make a real gundog.

Today marks 20 years since I opened Dog Years! Hardly seems possible in many ways.It's been rewarding but it has also co...
03/05/2025

Today marks 20 years since I opened Dog Years! Hardly seems possible in many ways.
It's been rewarding but it has also come at great cost. I'm so grateful for all of the clients and dogs that have come into my life because of this business. So many have become friends. We celebrate their dogs together and we share the grief when a dog passes. I couldn't do it any other way.
I wanted to share a story about a family and a dog that came to me early on, maybe a year or two into this. It is lengthy but you might find it interesting. It continues to amaze and inspire me...
A nice couple brought their beautiful female German Shepherd to me to board and train while they were on a 2 week vacation. She was a great student and in those 2 weeks, had completed my 4 week obedience course.
The couple called to see if rather than picking her up, could she stay another two weeks, as they had another trip coming up.
I said sure, but I want to train her more since she's doing so well, and they agreed.
It occurred to me after we hung up, that I wasn't sure what other training this dog needed. I sat on my couch and thought about it, and almost like a voice in my head, the idea to teach her to respond to hand signals for all of her training, including long range recall, washed over me and I had to start right that minute.
Being the amazing dog she was, she mastered all of that in short order. Here is where the story gets really good.
When they arrived to pick up their dog and have their demo and coaching session, they had their teenage son with them. They introduced him and I said "Hey, Buddy.", to which he nodded his head. Typical teenager, I thought.
I took the dog through all her paces, starting on leash and then off leash. Then I said proudly, and here is what she learned in the extra time, and proceeded to show them how the dog would do all those things with different hand signals without any verbal commands.
That's when the Mom broke into tears and said that her son was mute, and she was his dog.
He took his dog up and down the yard and they did everything she knew so well, it was just beautiful to watch.
When they left, I went inside and sat in stunned silence for quite a while.
The kid probably has kids of his own now, and that wonderful dog has long since gone to wherever good dogs go, but I've never forgotten them, and I still think about it. And I still can't explain it.

03/04/2025

Zephyr backed from so far away, it made me laugh.
No worry about him stealing another dog's point...

Zephyr on another 50 yard find. **g
03/02/2025

Zephyr on another 50 yard find.
**g

02/26/2025

Zephyr had an epiphany this week and realized he was born to be a High Class Bird Dog.
He is fully committed to that.

Zephyr is in the Home Stretch now. There's just something about a Setter, so classic.
02/24/2025

Zephyr is in the Home Stretch now. There's just something about a Setter, so classic.

This Cocker has a beard!
02/18/2025

This Cocker has a beard!

Gypsy just found out that we are remodeling to add more capacity for Boarding!We hope to have 60% more space for boardin...
02/17/2025

Gypsy just found out that we are remodeling to add more capacity for Boarding!
We hope to have 60% more space for boarding by Spring Break, and definitely for your Summer Vacations.

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Samantha Kim, Laurie Stine, Debbie Dorrell, Cindy Hodges, Seth SquyresDrop a comm...
02/17/2025

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎 Samantha Kim, Laurie Stine, Debbie Dorrell, Cindy Hodges, Seth Squyres

Drop a comment to welcome them to our community,

Address

284 Calvary Church Road
Swansea, SC
29160

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Thursday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Friday 7:30am - 9am
4pm - 6pm
Sunday 5pm - 6pm

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+18033863220

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