Nikki Spencer lives in Pennsylvania. She might be a newbie at the professional dog training world but that doesn’t stop her from pursuing her dreams. She began her dog journey when she was younger running beagles in field trials with her aunt and uncle. She fell in love with the connection you get with a working dog. She then fell ill with childhood ovarian cancer and was unable to continue with field trials. In her adult life she found out about Shorthairs from her Husband’s friend. She then got her first bird dog and heart dog Monroe. He is the reason for everything she strives to achieve. That fall started the first hunting season. It also was the start of founding the Lonesome Willow Gundog Club. Since then, she is always striving to learn and see how other people’s training differs from her own and how to improve. Anything birddog she loves to learn about whether that be a podcast, seminar, hands-on, books, or events. Always a student “There is a thousand ways you can teach one command.” She enjoys training her personal dogs for hunt tests, dock diving, shed hunting, as well as taking them out upland hunting and soon to be waterfowl hunting.

If you would also like to follow along on Nikki’s journey with her dogs go check out her IG.