Melinda Wright has been working with labs for about 20 years. When she begun teaching she worked with handicapped children who had companion dogs. She was amazed at thier versatility and started to read, research, and gain first hand knowledge of the breed. Her first arena was the obedience ring and then after becoming involved with a local hunt test club, she began training, running, and campaigning in both AKC and UKC hunt tests. She now judges in many UKC hunt tests each year. Her labs are her life and she spends all free time with them. They all live in the house and accompany her to school, therapy sessions at the local senior citizens center, and are quite well-known around thier small town.

Russ Archer has been running hunt tests for about 2 years. He bought his first dog from Hunters Marsh where he had already started his training. Russ spent many hours at Hunters Marsh learning about "running dogs." Now he too is "hooked."
He recently started a second dog and plans to start her campaigning soon. Russ too has a full-time job at Oxford Automotive and relies on Hunters Marsh for much help. Russ loves all dogs, but is now joining Melinda and learning everthing there is to know about labs. He enjoys hunting and just spending time with his dogs in the field.