Ryan Garrett has been training retrievers and pointers for over 15 years. Ryan got his passion for hunting dogs from his father who trained pointers as a professional. “I remember my dad picking me up from school with a truck load of dogs and going to the field til dark running his pointers. “ It was Ryan’s uncle’s black lab “Cricket” who got him hooked on retrievers. “I was hunting geese in NW part of New Mexico, I was 12 years old. This was my first goose hunt that I was actually carrying a gun. The first group came in through the fog, my uncle calls the shot and I dropped my first goose. Cricket took off through the fog, a few minutes later she came out of the fog holding my first goose!

After Ryan married his wife Sharon, they moved to Texas where Ryan operated Garrett’s Grove Retrievers. While there Ryan competed first in HRC/UKC hunt test then running in AKC hunt test and finally competing in the minor stakes of AKC field trials. Ryan also worked closely with his new mentor Mike Hafley of Crooked Oak Kennels. It was under Mike’s teaching that Ryan refined and learned a lot more about properly training retrievers.

Now after a 6 year lay off from training and competing retrievers, Ryan and his family have moved back from Texas and now operate Garrett Gun Dogs. Look for Ryan to be back on the hunt test and field trial circuit in the fall of 2014.