Fetching Feathers

Fetching Feathers is a training-focused kennel in Larkspur, Colorado, offering dog boarding and gun dog training for upland hunting breeds. The kennel works with pointing dogs and retrievers, and obedience is the foundation everything else builds on. Owners can book a boarding stay or combine one with training.

What the program covers

The centerpiece is a two-month obedience course, meant to give a dog a working base before field skills get layered on top. Boarding options are flexible, and board-and-train stays sit alongside them. The Larkspur site pairs climate-controlled indoor kennel space with outdoor ground for training work.

• Two-month obedience course
• Flexible boarding, including board-and-train stays
• Bird dog and gun dog training for pointing breeds and retrievers
• Climate-controlled indoor kennels with outdoor training space
• Bi-weekly report cards on kennel behavior, obedience, and field progress

How owners stay in the loop

Every dog receives a bi-weekly report card covering kennel behavior, obedience, and field progress. That matters more than it sounds when a dog is away for weeks at a stretch, because progress in the field is hard to picture from a phone call. Fetching Feathers frames its own approach around teaching the handler as much as the dog, and the reporting rhythm reflects that.

Practical details

Fetching Feathers runs two locations, one in Colorado and one in Virginia. The Larkspur kennel is the Colorado site, at ZIP 80118, south of Denver along the Front Range corridor. Booking is handled by phone at (303) 909-6697, and the kennel also lists info@fetching-feathers.com for questions.

This is a good fit for owners who want a hunting dog trained and boarded in one place, rather than a drop-in daycare. Anyone deciding between a short boarding stay and a full course should call and talk through the dog's age, breed, and experience first.