{"id":814,"date":"2019-05-31T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T23:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shut-bells.flywheelsites.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2019-06-06T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:36:09","slug":"idahoans-seth-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idahowild.com\/idahoans-seth-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Idahoans: Seth Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seth Simpson has been described as an animal whisperer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing as we’re fans of Jack Hanna, Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee, we had to meet the legend ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seth Simpson is tall man in his twenties. He lives and works on a piece of property in between Caldwell and Notus, Idaho.  And while he bears no resemblance (nor accent) to the TV-star animal tamers, Simpson, without a doubt, truly knows dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seth Simpson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can read all the books and watch all the videos and listen to people talk, but I\u2019ve spent every day of my life with multiple animals for hours, for as long as I\u2019ve been alive,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simpson is the owner of Gem State Kennels. He offers all breed obedience training as well as training for retrievers in waterfowl and upland hunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunting is where Simpson first realized he had a passion for dog training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI got my first dog of my own when I was 16 and trained it to be a hunting dog and found that I loved training dogs as much as I love hunting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At any one time Simpson might have a dozen dogs in his care. Some of them stay for a few weeks and some of them stay for a few months. Despite the revolving door of dogs, Simpson is able to build a relationship with every single one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome dogs you grow to like more than others, but with any dog, when they come in and go through the training program, you have to form some sort of connection very quickly in order to be able to train the dog,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the connection between trainer and dog is hugely important in the training process, Simpson says another necessary piece to the dog-training puzzle is the owner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe owner comes out every week and works with us and gets to see the whole process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more important to train the owner than it is to train the dog. It\u2019s just like a horse, if I was a horse trainer and someone sends me a horse, if I don\u2019t train the owner to ride the horse, they\u2019re not going to be able to utilize it,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s easy to see Simpson is devoted to his work, but it\u2019s even easier to see how devoted his dogs are to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn order to be a dog trainer, you have to know how a dog thinks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can only learn that<\/em> by learning from them, and the more time I spend training dogs, the better and better I get, and everyday I learn something new,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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