Ray Dohse is a professional pointing dog trainer who can assist you in having your weekend hunting partner tuned up, having your puppy broke, getting an AKC Field Champion or Amateur Field Champion title, or winning a National Field Trial for your breed.
In just the last few years, Ray's students (dogs and handlers!) have won:
20 Dog of the Year awards
Over 85 Year End High Point Top Ten awards
7 National Championships
4 Runner-Up National Championships
3 National Futurity Winners
45 Hour Placements in last two seasons
45 AKC Field Championships in 5 breeds
13 American Field Championships
Please take a minute to view the various pages on Ray's site and contact him via telephone with any questions and to discuss your dog's needs.
Ray and Jackie Marshall are pictured with Ray holding littermates Gabe and Willa
Ray Dohse's Eshod Farm
Field Trial and Gun Dog Training for the Pointing Breeds
Irish Setters, German Shorthaired Pointers, Vizslas, English Setters, Pointers, Brittanys, German Wirehaired Pointers
A Career Highlight
At the 2001 Irish Setter Club of America Nationals, littermates Gabe and Willa took Champion and Runner-up. I had worked with these two outstanding dogs since they were pups.
Ray Dohse
Eshod Farm
(478) 864-0671 home
(386) 451-3798 cell
PO Box 225
Wrightsville, GA 31096
Dogs pictured at top of page from left (click on name to go to their page): "Lassie", ISCA Derby Champion; FC "Bien", Waterford Champion; FC "Risky", #8 Derby Dog of the Year; "Bell", ISCA Futurity 2nd; FC "Bitty" Futurity Champion & OLGD of the Year RU
You'll see words and names throughout the site that are underlined and appear in
brown type. Those are hyperlinks that will take you to another page for more information, so click on them to find out more.
Ray, Scott Bodenstab & Dee win the Bodden Open Limited Gun Dog at the Lone Star GSPC 2009 Spring Trial! There were 27 starters. Ray and Lady won this Championship last year.
Welcome New Visitors!
Click here for an introduction to Ray Dohse and Pointing Breed field trials.
March 2009 Ray & Mason won Runner Up AKC All Pointing Breed Gun Dog Champion at Danville, VA and October 2009 Runner Up in the GSPCA Nationals in Eureka, KA
New AKC Field Champion!
Trish
Finished her FC in Atlanta with a 5 point retrieving win!
Congratulations to "Lady" RU NGDC and owner Doc Williams. Lady took 2nd in the Retrieving NGDC with 89 starters!!!
Congratulations to Bob and Tracy Dorn and Welcome back to the Eshod Family with the purchase of two top notch Setters
StreakRose
Congratulations to Jay Houghton
for the purchase of Bitty
Congratulations to Ed and Trudy Moody for
their purchase of an outstanding prospect out
of Mason and Lady..."Ryder"
Condolences to Ed and Trudy Moody on the passing of "Bitty". Bitty was in a class all her own as a competitor and companion and will be missed...
2xNGDC/RU NFC/FC/AFC Echo's Little Bit of Clown "Bitty"
is the 2007 AKC National Gun Dog Champion
(first repeat National Champion ever!)
April 5, 2007 at Branched Oak, NE
&
is RU Champion at the
NGSPA Open Shooting Dog Championship!
March 8, 2007 at Booneville, AR
Bitty is the GSPCA's #1
Open Limited Gun Dog of the Year for 2006!
Summer Update:
The Eshod Family would like to welcome Kim as a fulltime trainer on our staff. Kim will be focusing on force fetching dogs but will also be working some of our young up and comers such as "Sinbad's Lil Swami" owned by Jay Houghton.
Ray and the Team will be spending the summer in the North West corner of North Dakota for the summer and plan to return to Georgia in Mid Septemeber. Please contact Ray on his cell phone at this time.
