Hedgerow Kennel & Hunt Club
Hedgerow Kennel & Hunt Club is located on 110 acres in the hills of north central Massachusetts. We offer professional gun dog training and top quality upland bird hunting. Hedgerow offers a perfect balance to training and hunting your dog.
3 Proven Dog Training Programs to Choose From
Our Boarding and Training program with professional dog trainer, Pat Perry, provides training for your dog on a daily basis and is probably best suited for owners who simply don’t have the time to invest in their dog. It takes approximately 3 months to deliver a basic gun dog. A dog that will hunt with purpose, respond to whistle commands ,voice, and hand signals. Pointing dogs will hunt hard be staunch on point. Flushing dogs will work for the gun, retrieve to hand, and cover the the ground intelligently and efficiently. Hedgerow's thoroughness and attention to detail is well worth the investment. Please click here for more detailed information about our 3 Proven Gun Dog Training Programs.
Our One on One training sessions are designed to teach you how to train and handle your dog. Sessions last approximately one hour. One on One sessions are included with a Hedgerow membership at no additional charge. This helps our members get their dogs ready for upland hunting, AKC Hunt Tests, or Spaniel Field Trials.
Our Group training sessions allow a small group to work together and assist one another with training exercises that are difficult for one to do alone. Quartering, marking drills and honoring are some of the exercises that are most effective with group sessions. We try to keep our group sessions to 5 or 6 dogs, so that you can achieve your training goals instead of waiting for long intervals to run your dog.
We also provide non members use of grounds and training birds for a fee so that they may come and train their dog on their own. A Massachusetts Hunting License is required.
Upland Bird Hunting
Hedgerow’s upland bird hunting is only available to Hedgerow members and their guests. We hunt pheasant and chukar partridge on our 110 acre preserve. Our cover consists of several fields, brushy cover and woodlands. Hunting parties are limited to 3 guns. We are allowed to hunt year round, although we only hunt pheasant from early September to early April. We hunt chukar year round depending on bird availability. Hunters must wear blaze orange. A Massachusetts hunting license is required. Come join us and enjoy this outdoor experience with your friends, and and of course your dog !
Dog Training Video
Training Spaniels to Hunt “A Seminar with Pat Perry”
This video will serve as a guide to training your spaniel or retriever for Upland Bird Hunting. It will take you step by step through the training process and help you become a better dog trainer and handler. Training demonstrations and explanations of each step in each process help make the concepts clear and easy to follow. Invest in this video today. It will help your make your dog training experience more successful and rewarding.