Matt Hansen
“I have raised 5 puppies with the help of my wife and while I love puppies, they are more time consuming and headache inducing than I have time for. I have always kept my puppies in a travel kennel in the kitchen with us for at least 2 months. This requires someone to be home at all times to let the puppy out every 1 1/2 hours to air. This is fine on my days off but really puts a bind on my wife for a couple of months. She is not free to go to town because she needs to take care of the puppy with entertainment and feedings.
We decided mutually this time to try a puppy trainer for 3 months. This would get us past most of the really time consuming stuff and I would get a puppy who had been taught some basic obedience and most of all, taught how to learn.
Kris Hunt recommended Mary and Scott Steinfeldt to me and I couldn’t be any happier. My puppy was loved as if it were there own. They are super people and very caring for the dogs. In fact, no matter where a puppy goes, it will be a step down from their operation. They have beautiful grounds on which the dogs live and they get tons of attention. They are very safety conscious, feed premium food, the facilities are super clean and it is just an all around great home for any dog to live.
When it comes time for me to start a new dog again, I will not hesitate to contact them again. I would also recommend anyone who is thinking of a puppy trainer to contact them, it has been just a super experience.”
Matt Hansen
Sugar City, Idaho
(208)709-6559
“Our family was out of town for over a month and needed a desired site for boarding our puppy Pepper of less than one year. After interviewing a number of business, we discovered Bald Mountain Labradors through a friend, as most quality referrals are. We liked Mary immediately. She had a clean, professionally run kennel and promised to provide quality care, not to take on more dogs than she could handle at one time. Mary didn’t promise to change the world of our wild and untrained puppy. What she did do was train Pepper (and us) to carry out basic commands and play well with others.While Pepper now minds well and retrieves like a real field trial dog, she is still the same lovable house dog we always wanted. The entire experience was just what we had hoped. Most important, we felt Pepper was left in the best home possible…with Bald Mountain Labradors.”
Dawn & Mark Lewis
Bozeman, MT
Andrew Urzada
Testimonial of Snake River’s Lil’ Rio “Rio”
“From the initial phone call and email, the road directions, the demonstrations of her ability to train and handle Rio (as well as other labs), to the final follow-ups,…. Mary has been a wonderful person to deal with. She answered all my questions and then some, she helped me with my handling skills (I was a little rusty), and made sure the title of ownership was delivered in a fashionable timeframe.
Mary reads her trainees well and teaches each one of them the proper discipline and skills to be a well- rounded. All the trainees I met when I visited Bald Mountain Labradors were happy, healthy, and full of life.
Rio has been trained to be a junior hunter, to have proper manners around family (young and old), to have patients and consistency on the ‘line’ when retrieving, and to have the foundations to be a really good field trial/hunting dog.
Previously, I have trained my own dogs from the puppy stage and I was looking to try a well started lab that I could hunt and train with as well as have a calm dog in the home. Mary assured me that Rio was the dog for me…..and she was right! Rio has a lot of drive in the field and is one of the biggest couch potatoes in the house (next to me).
When I hunt, I hunt hard and I expect a lot of energy out of a dog. Rio, as described by Mary, as the “Energizer Bunny”, sure lives up to her name. I am very happy with my well trained, happy, and healthy hunting partner. Thank You Bald Mountain Labradors!!”
Andrew Urzada
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada