My name is Isaac Langerud and I started Chapel Hill Retrievers with the purpose of helping you reach the goals that you have set fourth for both you and your canine friend.  Whether you are a first time dog owner or a someone who has been competing in national events year after year, we tailor our program to help you reach your goals. 

 

My passion for dogs started in my youth while pheasant hunting with my father. We quickly realized that we were much productive when hunting over a dog. Being able to see the dogs work in the field and help us achieve our goals, in hunting, was truly where it all began for me.  After those hunting experiences I began to search for and acquire as much training knowledge as I could come up with.  I read books and magazines, watched training videos, trained with a local training group and then went on to do my college internship with Scott Dewey at Rock River Retrievers.  After graduating college, I went out to work with Jim Van Engen at Right Start Kennels in Sheboygan Falls, WI.  While working at Right Start Kennels, I had the opportunity to work with a vast array of young dogs and got a ton of hands on experience learning to read dogs and adjust training methods to meet each dogs individual needs.  Over the two years that I spent training at Right Start Kennels I had the opportunity to work with and do basics on a number of dogs that went on to achieve the following titles: National Amateur Field Champion, Field Champion, and Amateur Field Champion.  

 

While working at Right Start Kennels as an assistant trainer for young dogs an opportunity arose, once again, with Scott Dewey to further my training education.  Scott was searching for a new assistant trainer and I felt it was the right move to further my training education.  I sadly left Jim as we had became a very good team but with excitement of getting to work with Scott.  I spent 5 years training with Rock River Retrievers where we developed a very competitive truck of dogs.  We made several Field Champions, Amateur Field Champions, National Open Finalists, National Amateur Finalists, and even a Purina high point amateur dog.  Things were definitely going good for us at Rock River Retrievers.  Scott decided to take a different path in his career and began to train service dogs and that is when I made the decision to start Chapel Hill Retrievers.  

 

In the short amount of time since the beginning of Chapel Hill Retrievers, we have been fortunate in the field trial game and have won and place numerous dogs in the derby stake, made several dogs qualified all age with numerous other placements in the qualifying stake, amateurs have placements in the amateur stake and we have won and had several placements in the open stake.  We have made a Field Champion "Hi Rollers Miss Independence aka Princess" and also qualified her for the National Open Retriever Field Trial.  We currently have a very nice group of dogs and look forward to the upcoming future.

 

Time to get training!  Let's work together to help you achieve your goals!