Pheasant Bonanza offers the highest level of gun dog training available; ORVIS Endorsed gun dog training for all pointing and retrieving breeds. We have a 3 month gun dog training program and an obedience program, we also offer advanced training programs based on individual client requests. Our property includes training fields and access to lakes and rivers for complete professional dog training. We can handle your dog in AKC, NAVHDA and Tournament Hunting events, as well as for AKC conformation events. Our accomplishments include three National Pheasant Hunting Championships and several State Pheasant Hunting Championships.

Our kennel features 46 heated and air conditioned indoor/ outdoor runs for the dogs, and 2 whelping areas. There is also a grooming and bathing area to pamper your pets.

Pheasant Bonanza maintains a year-round, full-time staff of professional dog trainers and handlers. They are responsible for the training of a variety of breeds and personality types - from pups to finished dogs. We specialize in German Shorthaired Pointers, Labrador Retrievers and Spinone Italiano.

Trent Leichleiter: Professional Trainer

Trent Leichleiter, Pheasant Bonanza's newest Pro Trainer. He is a young, energetic and passionate trainer who enjoys working with both flushing and pointing breeds. Trent has recently trained and handled his two Labradors to achieve AKC junior and senior hunt titles.

He graduated from Dana College with a double major in education, and competed five years with the wrestling team. During his time in college, he became an All-American wrestler, and his wrestling team were National Champions during his senior year. Trent is also a three time Academic All-American. He looks forward to using the persistence and hard work he developed through wrestling and academics to train the dogs he will work with at Pheasant Bonanza.

Trent's family includes his wife Katie, and children Jager & Kruze. Pheasant Bonanza is proud to include Trent as a part of their ORVIS Endorsed dog training and breeding program.

Cheryl Pleskac is Pheasant Bonanza's newest ProTrainer.

Cheryl was hired as the kennel manager when she started and has since become a full-time trainer. With the advice and help from the other trainers, she has accomplished quite the list of great finished hunting dogs, both pointers and flushers.

She also has become the "go to" trainer for the Spinone Italianos in the area. As many Spinone owners have come to find out, at times they can be a challenging breed, but with her great amount of patience & experience Cheryl has come to enjoy working with them & catering her training to meet their needs & behavior.

Cheryl has German Shorthaired Pointers of her own which she runs in local competitions and has done very well with. With her background of training horses and her own dogs through the years after high school, it has been an easy transition to training hunting dogs.

Cheryl also specializes in obedience training. She believes that it is essential to have an obedient dog to make both dog & owner lifelong partners. Obedience is an important staple to the training program at Pheasant Bonanza. Cheryl welcomes all breeds of dogs at any age to take part in this learning experience, as well as the owners to learn right along with them.

She has two daughters, Josey, who also works at Pheasant Bonanza and a younger daughter, Calli, who attends Oakland-Craig high school.

Pheasant Bonanza is proud to include Cheryl as a part of their Orvis Endorsed dog training & breeding program!

Chuck Bohlin is one of Pheasant Bonanza.s professional dog trainers. Chuck's love of the outdoors continued after his retirement from dentistry by joining the Pheasant Bonanza team as a full time trainer. He feels it is a privilege to work with this outstanding team not only in dog training, but other aspects of running a hunt club & dog kennel.

Chuck occasionally guides for Pheasant Bonanza, but feels the highlight of each day is working with the dogs to bring out their full potential. "Training several breeds of dogs is a constant learning experience for both dog & trainer." says Chuck. He has trained several dogs that have since received AKC titles, won Pheasant Hunter Unlimited events and other hunting competitions.

The dog training program at Pheasant Bonanza, which Chuck helped develop, he feels is one of the best in the country and likes how it is designed on an individual basis. He particularly likes to take the dogs to the training pond to do water work in the summer and feels that the advantage of training at a hunt club is having the ability to train dogs over plenty of birds, pheasant, chukar, quail or pigeons from the early puppy stage through to a finished dog. Chuck encourages all dog owners to be part of the training process in order for the dogs to continue their development.

Chuck's family includes his wife, Charlotte, 3 children and 7 grandchildren. His grandchildren love to come to Pheasant Bonanza and play with the dogs & puppies.