WIND RIVER CANINE PARTNERS

Pet Training | Service Dogs

Off-Leash Training

Kennel-Free Boarding & Daycare

Wind River Canine Partners is a unique DOG TRAINING, BOARDING, AND DAYCARE facility located just 12 miles south of Missoula on a beautiful ranch in the Bitterroot valley.

We offer small, tailored daycare groups that create healthy play habits for dogs; kennel-free boarding with spacious, natural yards for our overnight guests; and a team of highly educated and skilled trainers to create the strongest partnership you’ve ever had with your dog.

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Daycare & Boarding

Come stay at the Wind River Ranch! For our boarding and daycare clients:

Indoor-outdoor access between our heated & air-conditioned barns and our spacious, natural-grass yards.
Dogs can participate in small, hand-selected play groups during the day or have their own space, whichever they prefer.
Maximum play group size is 8 dogs, so we can match each dog to others of similar play styles and temperaments.
Staff on site 24/7 so your dogs are always protected, even overnight

Dog Training

Real-world training that caters to the Montana lifestyle. Create the “Go Anywhere, Do Anything” dog that can be your adventure partner, whether that takes you into the woods or downtown. We offer:

Foundation Partnership Training
Off Leash Reliability
Behavior Modification
Specialty Skills: Nose Work, Pulling Sports, Bite Work, Therapy Dog, and more!

Service Dog Program

A unique owner-training service dog program that helps individuals with disabilities train their own dogs for specifically tailored tasks to help them live more independent lives. Training for mobility assistance, seizure, allergen detection, psychiatric assistance, and more.

Jane Elleby

June 14, 2019

Thank you Wind River Canine Partners for your work in fostering and encouraging a strong team with our son and his newly graduated service dog. Your expertise in good citizenship obedience training, medical task training, and public access training was thorough and infinitely rewarding for their team. AND you kept it exciting and fun. My son came back from his transfer of skills week full of confidence and ready to begin his life with a entirely focused and knowledgeable service dog! As a mother seeing the success of the partnership and team building, I feel grateful, appreciative, and thankful that we chose Wind River Canine Partners and would recommend your organization with the absolute highest of accolades. Thank you to Ally Cowan and the team. Jane Elleby

Jason Watkins

December 21, 2023

Wind river was a great way to get foundational training when our busy life caring for young children didn't allow us to put the time into our puppy the way we needed to. We sent a hyper, non-obedient dog in hopes that we would see some improvement. Kevin spent 2 weeks training the basics of sit (applied stay), place (applied stay), and walking on a leash. When he came back to us, we couldn't believe how well he behaved. With our commitment to ongoing training, our dog has continued to flourish. We couldn't be happier with the results.

Elizabeth Warriner

May 26, 2025

The best review I can give is from my dogs. They lose their minds they are so excited when we turn off the hwy to go there. They absolutely love it. It's a wonderful place to kennel the dogs when we aren't able to take them with us. Kevin was the trainer for 1 of my dogs, he will stop and return from chasing a jack rabbit. He is the best trained dog I've ever had.

Steven Carlston

June 16, 2023

Very knowledgeable trainers We have had several rescue pups come out of there with skillz!

Emily Rogers

August 10, 2020

My shih tzu, Tucker, loves this place!! I was nervous with him being a little dog and most of the dogs there at the time being large. But they were very careful to place him with gentle bigger dogs 🙂 Everything went very smoothly. Tucker will definitely be back!

Emily Adams

September 18, 2022

Wonderful people working for a wonderful cause

Don Iarussi MFA

January 28, 2021

this is a great place that I would recommend 21. They have done such an amazing job with my dog Zuma and just two visits a 5-month-old lab retriever. I cannot believe the progress that they have made with him in just two visits. Between my wife and wild River canine the dog has made remarkable progress from the time we adopted him a month ago

Deb Bradford

June 29, 2024

I gained valuable experience with my pup training with Kevin. I appreciate the time spent learning the proper way to handle situations that I might encounter with people and dogs. I know that it is the person who is ultimately responsible for the reactions of the pup. The training has been very helpful to a great relationship with my new companion!

Jennifer Wagoner

July 1, 2022

My dogs love it here! The staff is really nice and helpful. 🙂

Harley Sanford

February 22, 2019

My service dog Cadence has changed my life in ways that cannot be put into words. This has all been possible by the amazing team at Wind River, from their one on one owner training, their board and train, their continuous training over the phone or through follow up training to insure my service dog and I are an amazing team together. I would hands down trust Them with any one of my dogs needs and training!!

Emily Weaver

December 12, 2022

I have had a great experience with Wind River Canine Partners and I cannot recommend them enough. We put our black lab through the two-week foundation board and train with Kevin (who was absolutely fantastic) and it changed everything! He taught us how to more effectively communicate with our dog and gave us a running head start with her on-leash manners, on top of polishing up all her basic commands. Walks with her used to be exhausting and now they are enjoyable for both of us! I plan to send her back for the advanced training as soon as we can.

karen reynolds

January 16, 2024

Our dog, Freya, loves it there for boarding and daycare. She gets so excited when we turn down the road to Wind River. Everyone is very nice and they always make sure Freya is having a good time.

Gina Sanford

February 22, 2019

There aren't enough words to describe how amazing Ally & Kelsey are! Ally at Wind River Canine Partners helped train my husband's service dog Cadence and my Daughter's service dog Jazmine. During Cadence and Jazzy's board and stay portion of training, they stayed at Wind River and received the absolute best care. Cadence is now a working service dog for PTSD anxiety and migraine detection. Jazzy is now a working service dog for allergy detection (peanuts) medical alert and anxiety. There aren't words to describe how our life has changed for the better, because of the work Cadence and Jazzy are able to do for my husband and child. This is the absolute best facility around for training and boarding! Thank you Wind River for all that you do.

Janet Born

November 20, 2021

Amarok loves this place! He gets excited and talks until they come to get him out of the truck. It makes it so much easier to go work knowing he’s taken care of.

Gabbie Cummings

June 24, 2024

I traveled with my friend and her dog to Montana for her daughter's wedding. We heard of this place from a friend of a friend. We went to check it out and have a meet & greet. What kind and friendly staff. Initial meet & greet was for 2 hours. He LOVED it!!! My friend, on the other hand, was like leaving her kindergartener on the first day of school. 🤣 We brought Teddy back for a 2 day stay. They allowed him to sleep inside with the overnight staff. He made a lot of new friends. Hannah was WONDERFUL!!!! If we are ever back in Victor or Hamilton and need a place to leave our pup, I will definitely come here. Thank you Hannah for being so wonderful to my friend and her dog, Teddy.

Naomi Williams

February 21, 2019

Had the privilege of working with Alle for service dog training and it was a wonderful experience during the process but the helpfulness after my dog Rocket graduated was beyond what was required.

Kristin Gyford

October 17, 2022

Trainers are super accommodating and really take the time to work with me and my service dog.

Jessica Smith

April 10, 2024

We did private training lessons from Elena and it was incredible! Our new pup is doing so great now thanks to her! Everyone was always super friendly and great to work with! Highly recommend! 🙂 Thank you so much!!

Rilee Zilkey

February 12, 2024

I cannot say enough good things about Wind River. We’ve been bringing our two dogs there for four years now and every single time I turn down their dirt road, they both perk up and get excited to see their friends. The staff are the absolute best and make sure your dogs know that they are loved. Our smaller dog did the two week board and train and came back better than we could’ve expected. Our older guy is definitely a little grumpy and not as mobile, but they take care of him just as good as we do at home. Thank you, Wind River!

Carla Jones

March 5, 2025

I highly recommend training with Ally she was great with our German Shepard puppy and taught me a lot so that I could continue the testing myself. I also recommend their boarding facility and the staff is so friendly!

Bonnie Netzley

February 13, 2024

We just started using this kennel for boarding. The staff is kind and communicative. I felt very comfortable leaving my dogs with them while my husband and I flew out of state for 4 days. Definitely going back!

Aaron Madsen

April 11, 2019

Seems to be popular

Jason Ditsworth

March 8, 2024

Great place to take your dog to play with other dogs. Our Bernedoodle has a blast at daycare. Great boarding service as well.

Kate Haire

May 13, 2023

Many thanks to Kevin Alford for working with me and my English Cocker Spaniel puppy Percy - we are making real progress and I couldn't be more pleased. Kevin is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, and professional - as well as kind, patient, and able to explain not only what to do, but why, and the short-term and long-term outcomes to look for. Looking forward to more training in the future!

Ben Deeble

January 21, 2024

Boarded our dogs really well during 10 days of Montana winter cold.

Steven Goodsell

August 24, 2021

My 4 obnoxious pups absolutely love coming here for the weekends. When we pull on to the road they start hopping around and whining because they know where they are. That they get to get out and play with the staff, and other pups.

Elizabeth McNeilly

February 22, 2019

The new owner trained my black lab Maggie, did amazing job. She also goes there for daycare it is always tired when she comes home and loves every minute of it. The staff is wonderful everything is clean and organized. And my dog is always tired and happy I’ve never been happier with the training I received when my dog was a needed it. I would refer any dog family to canine partners

Jami Fink

August 12, 2020

Wonderful place! I wouldn't take my dogs anywhere else for training or boarding. Amazing staff!

Katelyn Siemer

March 20, 2023

We brought our rough collie pup here for obedience lessons. Lydia was awesome working with us, giving us a great start to Scout’s life with our family. I especially appreciated the opportunities presented to obey in a controlled not at home setting with distraction. Would love to return again for more advanced training.

Scott Dahmer

September 14, 2017

If you want your dog well cared for....take him/her here.

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(406) 272-2140

staff@windriverkennels.com

HOURS

Drop off & Pick Up Hours:

Open 7 Days Per Week

7AM-7PM

We are CLOSED from 12:30-2:30PM every day for ranch chores!

Training by appointment only!

ADDRESS

5353 E. CARLTON CREEK RD

FLORENCE, MT 59833

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