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 Our
up-to-date kennels feature indoor and outdoor boarding. The indoor kennel
is also climate controlled year round, so your animal stays as comfortable
as possible during its time here. Your animal's diet is also a great concern
to us. We provide a nutritious and balanced diet with premium feed. The
facilities are kept very sanitary and well maintained. The building has
large exhaust fans used to rid it of any unwanted odors inside. They also
provide plenty of ventilation.
 Over
20 years of experience has gained us an excellent reputation for training
gun-dogs and field trial dogs.We at Lindley's Kennel show great patience
and skill while working your bird dog. We are always willing to invest
the time it takes to train your dog the way you want it trained. Whether
it's to be just a started dog or fully broke, the job will be well done.
Whether your dog is just a puppy, two to three years old, or even four
to six years old: if your dog can be trained, Lindley's Kennel will put
forth their best effort to make you proud and your dog a better established
gun-dog or field trial dog.
THIS IS REPRINTED FROM AN ARTICLE IN THE GREENVILLE NEWS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29,
1998.
TRAINER HAS SILENT WAY WITH DOGS (By: Jimmy Cornelison)
 It
is a gray day and a slight drizzle falls over a field colored in autumn
shades. Maurice Lindley tucks a homing pigeon’s head beneath
its wing, something that will make the bird almost comatose for anywhere
from a minute to 10 minutes.
Lindley, whose appearance easily offers testimony to his love of the outdoors, places the
bird amid a stand of tall brown grass. He then retrieves Gus, a young English Pointer he
is training, and walks him to the field.
The young dog works the brush as he’s been taught. Suddenly he stops and becomes
statue still, his rapier-thin tail pointed toward the leaden skies. The pigeon is flushed.
The 38-year-old Lindley, however, does not hear the soft rain hit the foliage, the
dog’s careful steps in the brush or the thrashing of the bird’s wings as it
takes flight.
This trainer of pointers and retrievers, so respected he’s been featured in the
magazine Quail Unlimited and the television show "Country Sportsman", is deaf.
Four years ago, he lost all hearing in his right ear. He was diagnosed with Meniere’s
syndrome, what he jokingly calls "some French disease"
Not much is known about the illness, other than that it’s caused by allergies. There
is no cure, but the person normally loses hearing in only one ear.
Lindley proved an exception when he lost hearing in his left ear and became completely
deaf last year.
Lindley says he was born and raised in Greenville, responding to questions relayed to him
by his wife, Kaye, using sign language. He’d wanted to train pointers and retrievers
since he was in his early teens. "Being
around people in the business, watching others, it’s exciting because every dog is
different", he says. "I had dogs I trained for myself, then about 20 years ago,
I started training dogs for others."
He learned his trade not only from reading every book available, but also by pestering
other trainers such as Paul Long in North Carolina and Canadian Collier Smith.
He said the most important things he learned are what not to do and to teach the dogs
through repetition.
"It’s an everyday job, and you can’t get the repetitions taking a dog out a
couple of times a week", he says.
Until four years ago, all was going as he dreamed.
Land was purchased near Moonville that included 10 acres for a home, boarding kennel,
grooming and training facilities, and a field to train pointers on the use of a leash. He
bought another 250 acres nearby where he could turn the trainees loose to be sure
they’d learned well.
His brother, Bob, joined the business. Lindley married seven years ago, and with that
marriage came a stepdaughter, Sonya. His wife says the hearing loss initially was toughest
on the daughter because she always liked to talk to him.
The loss of hearing in the right ear had been no real concern, but then he lost hearing in
the other ear, with all sounds disappearing within the span of a week. "I woke up the
next Monday morning, and I couldn’t hear my own voice."
His wife admits to fear at first, but says her husband is a Christian man and "knew
to trust the Lord."
Lindley adds, "I worried about three days, then figured it was the Lord’s
will."
The family learned sign language together, and his brother says light-heartedly,
"I’m learning now because he doesn’t read lips, and I got tired of him
guessing what I was saying."
A new method of training the dogs needed to be learned. A Texas trainer taught him a
silent way to work.
It’s a technique he actually finds better than his old method.
"To me, the silence is the best way. I wish I’d been doing it 20 years," he
says. "You think about it, dogs don’t know a word of English so it’s better
to show them than to tell them."
So it is for Maurice Lindley and his family.
The dream will continue. For him, it will continue in silence, a silence that will only
serve to heighten his other senses, including common sense, the one dogs seem to
understand the best. |
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