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MARTIN DEELEY is an Internationally recognized gundog trainer, writer and commentator. He specializes in spaniel and retriever training and is renowned throughout Europe and America as an authority on training both dogs and their owners.
Some say there are those that can and those that can't, teach. Martin is living proof that someone can do both. His ability to bring on good gundogs and also teach their owners is a rare talent.
An Englishman, born in Yorkshire, Martin graduated with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering. After a successful nine year career as an Engineer and Management Consultant, he lectured for eighteen years at Bournemouth University and in that time was appointed Head of The Business School. This solid business and educational background provided the professional vehicle for him to display his outstanding communication abilities training people and their dogs.
Martin has trained both Spaniels and Retrievers in Britain as a semi and a full professional for both hunting and trials, where he ran at the highest level winning Open Field Trial awards. In Florida, America where he now lives, he runs in Hunt Tests and has successfully trained and handled his own and clients dogs at all levels. His love however is training and developing the perfect hunting companion.
For Martin communication with dogs and people is an art and a gift. He has a unique ability to train and motivate both dogs and their owners, creating a desire to succeed. His distinctive approach and personality is the catalyst by which he imparts skills and knowledge to those fortunate dogs or owners fortunate to work with him.
In training videos, made with Paul French Videos, he works alongside Britain's top gundog trainers providing his viewers with various philosophies and methods of working and training their own dogs. Martin has also produced two of his own videos in which he demonstrates and discusses his own training methods, Basic Gundog Training and Pet Training Through Retrieving. As a video commentator for field trials and tests Martin is without equal and has the ability to bring both the experienced and newcomer into the scene, sharing with them the joys and skills of working dogs. His abilities and personality have rightfully earned him the position of being Internationally acknowledged as the leading commentator for gundog events having provided commentary on over 60 International Championship Events.
Martin is also the only journalist ever granted a personal interview with Her Majesty The Queen of England. Martin considers this interview the greatest honor of his life because it reflected the confidence and trust that Her Majesty had in his integrity to fairly and honestly publicly portray Her, Her love of gundogs, and the effect that dogs have had in her life. This rare and unique interview, was published in the leading British newspaper The Sunday Express, Britain's leading country sportsman's magazine The Shooting Times, and went on to world wide distribution. He currently writes articles for leading American and European magazines and is a regular contributor to The Shooting Gazette, the AKC Gazette, Off Lead and the Texas monthly magazine City and Country Pets. His articles have been translated and published for devotees in Holland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Japan. The three books he has written, "Advanced Gundog Training", "Working Gundogs", and "Getting it Right with Gundogs", are available in the U.S. in addition to Europe. In 2002 Martin was presented with the Dog Writers Association of America Special Award for the Best Training Article of 2001
The leading U.S. remote trainer manufacturers, Tri-tronics and Innotek have both contracted Martin's abilities as a management consultant and respected dog trainer by retaining his services as a freelance Marketing and Project Consultant, Product Design Advisor, Seminar presenter and journalist for their magazines and web sites.
He is co-founder of the International Association of Canine Professionals. An Association dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of professional and business practices among canine professionals.
A dog owner since the age of 11, it was Martins early love of shooting, the countryside and dogs that was instrumental in creating his desire to train gundogs. His understanding of "dog sense and language" is credited to twenty six years of experience training and handling a large numbers of dogs, from a wide and broad variety of breeds and temperaments, and by owning and operating a gundog training kennel. His observation of the non-verbal communication given by dogs taught him to read dog, think dog, and speak dog.
Martin looks to the future to serve and help owners and their gundogs create a relationship that will enrich both of their lives and bring the successes in the hunting field they dream of.
Martin is proud to state that ….
"Dogs have been and still are my teacher, friend, and provider….."
