Drahtco.com Founder & American Master Deutsch-Drahthaar Trainer Clint Joesting

Hey, I want to back up a little bit, and I wanted to talk a little bit about your website and just wanted to tell you how impressed I was with some of the stuff that you're putting on there.

And I think we should let our listeners know exactly some of the stuff that's on there so they're aware of it.

So let's just talk about your VGP checklist and some of the things that you've put on there recently that can help people training their dogs for these events.

Yeah, I put that on there because – you know, everybody has their first experience with this stuff.

And, you know, I just wanted to have something handy to help them or motivate them to do a VGP or an ACP just to shorten the learning curve a little bit.

And mainly because a lot of people come to the training day and they, they're kind of shy.

They really don't know what's, what to do, they don't have an idea, so they have to ask a bunch of questions.

So if they can get one question answered by one of those checklists that they don't have to ask, that's why I put that stuff up there, is just to help a younger or less experienced handler have a little bit more confidence when they come to training days and want to do those tests.

Because if they do those tests, They're going to be with their dog more.

The dog's going to most likely end up as a better dog if those handlers have that knowledge.

And I just want dogs to be out there.

That's why I like the testing because it keeps me out there all year round.

Clint, where do I find this on your website, what we're talking about here?

That would be on the Hunting Dog Hub on the website.

Got it.

And you can find all that information in there.

You know, HCP guide, HCP checklist.

There's some knob to test checklist, VGP checklist.

And how about your little list you got in there for the kids? That was pretty neat.

Yeah.

You know, I just thought.

If a kid, if a kid can learn something, cause that's, I was that kid.

I was that kid in the encyclopedia.

We don't have encyclopedias.

That's why I put the breed guide up there for all the different breeds, because I just, that was so important to me growing up that I know there's somebody out there that is looking for that, or they're looking at a different dog that they can, that they can go check out, read the descriptions of those dogs, see what they look like.