How Are We Different?

The Gundog Club offers comprehensive boarding for bird dogs and their owners. Unlike typical facilities with continuous and chaotic playtime on fake turf, we maintain discipline and meet the energy needs of working breeds, ensuring your training investment is preserved. With 40 acres to work with, even the pointers will be worn out.

Boarding is often seen as a break, but we see those few days as opportunities. Most kennels don’t train during brief stays as it is difficult to build an advanced working relationship in that period, and while we aren't different in that regard, halting all development is -by definition- fruitless. The Gundog Club addresses this by offering one-on-one conditioning sessions and enforcing basic obedience fundamentals. Unlike commercial facilities whose activities tend to lead to overstimulation and diluted training, we ensure discipline is maintained through structured activities.

Each day starts with an early morning airing and feeding. Continuity in training is important, and we enforce small but crucial habits like kennel and door manners, waiting to eat until told, etc. Dogs then receive another airing before heading out for the afternoon training sessions. In the evening, they are fed, watered, and put to bed, ready for the next day’s work.

What Does Membership Include?

For Dogs

Daily Routine

Dogs are aired 3x per day from climate controlled kennels. Exercise is on private grounds and water.

Nutrition

We feed the unbeatable combination of TLC dog food and Alpha Dog Nutrition supplements. All members can take advantage of this free of charge, but you are also certainly welcome to send your dog along with your preferred food.

Work

All dogs will be worked to make them just a little better every day. From "roading" (running at controlled speeds beside an ATV) to heeling sessions with a trainer, your dog will get the exercise needed to thrive, not plateau. Dogs that have been to us for training will also be right back in the fray, running our daily setups.

Transportation

We provide unlimited pick-up and drop-off for members within the greater Houston area. Our custom built trucks and trailers make transportation safe for your dog and convenient for your family.

For Owners

Land Access

On the weekends, our 40 acres, complete with a tech pond, is open to members for training. Take advantage of land and water specifically designed and constructed for training bird dogs, including prairie grasses for pointers and flushers, difficult angle entry lining for retrievers, and short-cut fields for puppies still going through yard work.

Training Events

We also host formal training days, creating a more realistic hunting and hunt test atmosphere. Dogs are far more likely to succeed in their job -whether that be picking up ducks or picking up ribbons- if they can work a similar environment beforehand.

Membership Eligibility

Veterinary History

All dogs must have on file current proof of Rabies as required by local jurisdictions, and Bordetella (the vaccination for kennel cough) to ensure safe contact among members.

Aggression

For the safety of our current members, dogs with aggression in regards to food, other dogs, or people are not eligible.

Eligible Breeds

The three breed families have been condensed into one, alphabetical list below. The list is defined by the AKC in reference to the pointer, flusher, and retriever hunt tests.

  • Airedale Terriers
  • American Water Spaniels
  • Barbets
  • Boykin Spaniels
  • Bracco Italiano
  • Braque du Bourbonnais
  • Braque Francais Pyrenean
  • Braque St. Germain
  • Brittanys
  • Chesapeake Bay Retrievers
  • Clumber Spaniels
  • Cocker Spaniels
  • Curly-Coated Retrievers
  • Deutsch Drahthaars
  • Deutsch Kurzhaars
  • Deutsch Langhaars
  • Drentsche Patrijshond (Drent)
  • English Cocker Spaniels
  • English Setters
  • English Springer Spaniels
  • Field Spaniels
  • Flat-Coated Retrievers
  • French Spaniels
  • German Longhaired Pointers
  • German Shorthaired Pointers
  • German Wirehaired Pointers
  • Golden Retrievers
  • Gordon Setters
  • Irish Setters
  • Irish Water Spaniels
  • Labrador Retrievers
  • Large Munsterlanders
  • Miniature Poodles
  • Nederlandse Kooikerhondje
  • Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers
  • Pointers
  • Poodles, Portuguese Pointers
  • Pudelpointers
  • Slovakian Wirehaired Pointers
  • Small Munsterlanders
  • Small Munsterlander Pointers
  • Spinone Italiano
  • Stabyhouns
  • Standard Poodles
  • Sussex Spaniels
  • Vizslas
  • Weimaraners
  • Welsh Springer Spaniels
  • Wirehaired Pointing Griffons
  • Wirehaired Vizslas
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