High On Kennels was founded by Tracy Presson in 1998 with goal of having a training facility specializing in gun dog development and training as well as obedience and behavioral problem solving. Tracy has been training dogs since the age of twelve; her entire professional career has been dedicated to dogs and their training. She has worked professionally training dogs for police work, handicapped service, obedience and gun dog work. Tracy’s training skills and rattlesnake aversion training techniques have been featured in the San Diego union tribune, news 8 and the channel 10 news in San Diego.

  Tracy is best known for her bird dog training having apprenticed under world renowned trainer/breeder and cofounder of the North American versatile hunting dog association Sigbot (Bodo) Winterhelt. Navhda has the most stringent and demanding test regimen for gun dogs and is the benchmark in North America for gun dog training and testing. In addition to her apprenticeship with Bodo she has been involved in numerous workshops and seminars sponsored by the top names in gun dog training. As twenty plus year member of the North American versatile hunting dog association she is a field judge and has judged dogs for many years.  In that time she has been exposed to and judged hundreds of gun dogs and has training and handling experience with virtually every sporting breed in North America. Her forty plus years of training experience with a multitude of different breeds and never ending study of dog psychology has given her a tremendous insight into their behavior and how they think.

  High On Kennels is located an hour and a half northeast of downtown San Diego in the mountains near the towns of Julian and Santa Ysabel. The kennel is located on forty plus acres and possesses a large cultivated training field, a two acre pond for water training and a half acre fenced free run enclosure. Our state of the art kennel can handle twenty two pets at a time, it is climate controlled and is `configured to let dogs roam between inside and outside at will weather permitting.