About

Your instructor Sam has worked with dogs in various roles since 2004, previously working at rescue and boarding kennels and as a Guide Dog Puppy Raiser.

In 2020, when the pandemic forced the temporary closure of her independent cinema, Sam decided to retrain as a dog trainer and start her own dog training business.

Sam is a qualified animal training instructor with the ABTC and also an accredited gundog training instructor with the Gundog Trainer's Academy.

Sam is also a City & Guilds-assured Scent Detection Dog Handler & Instructor.

She currently teaches puppies, basic obedience, fun pet gundog classes and scentwork.

Your host Helen Phillips is the owner of Kemble's Field and Clicker Gundog, author of the popular ‘Clicker Gundog’ Training Book, co-founder of the Gundog Trainers Academy Ltd, a qualified teacher and Animal Training Instructor with the ABTC, and owner of Cotswold Dawn Hungarian Vizslas.

Helen has been shooting and working dogs in the field for over thirty years and has been breeding Hungarian Vizslas since 1998. Having owned a variety of breeds from crosses, to Spaniels and HPRs, Helen has an extensive understanding of living with and working with hunting dogs.

Currently, Helen owns Vizslas, Jack and Dibble, and English Springer Spaniels, Teal, Wren and Lark. All the dogs work in a variety of roles on the shoot from beating, picking up to partner on the peg.

Together with her husband Chris, Helen manages the small shoot at Kemble's Field. Previously, Helen was involved in the organisation and running of a small syndicate shoot in Worcestershire, she has also been responsible for running varied types of beating lines and has worked her own dogs on different types of shoots from large commercial shoots to rough shooting days.

Helen has also achieved the Kennel Club Working Gundog Certificate on Dummies and on Game with both Vizlas and Springer Spaniels. Helen has competed in working tests and participates in grouse counting.

Together with Helen, Chris manages the small shoot at Kemble's Field.

Chris is not only the game keeper, he is also the shoot captain and very talented chef.

It is thanks to Chris' hard work that the shoot experience days are made possible.

Lynsey Moss is a fully accredited gundog training instructor with the Gundog Trainers Academy and is one of only two instructors in the country to have achieved the GTA full accreditation on game as well as dummies.

At Kemble's Field, Lynsey manages the picking up team on our shoot experience days.

She herself has English Springer Spaniels which are trained as beating dogs and over a decade of experience working her own dogs, as well as teaching others.

Alongside the training, Lynsey is also a fully qualified veterinary physiotherapist with a BSc (hons) degree in Veterinary Physiotherapy. She is also registered with the National Association of Veterinary Physiotherapists and the Animal Health Professionals Register. Lynsey now shares the benefits of fitness and physiotherapy, providing extra insights, to keep working gundogs fit and healthy.