Jeff Young

Jeff was born and raised in north central Pennsylvania. He raised 3 sons, moving to North Carolina in 1991. 

Jeff didn’t begin his career as a dog trainer. In 2000, he purchased a golden retriever puppy, Gabby, and his love of retrievers began. Gabby went on to be the first female golden Grand Hunting Retriever Champion. Jeff owned and operated many successful businesses before making his transition into training dogs full time in 2018. He remained in North Carolina until he started at River Town Retrievers in 2023. 

Jeff has had several accomplishments throughout his training career. One being passing his male, golden retriever, Ben (Young’s Stairway to Seven}, at the HRC International Grand 5 times. Ben is also a Master Hunter and qualified all age. Jeff has earned a total of ten Grand passes with seven of those being with golden retrievers. Jeff’s current focus is transition work as well as HRC hunt tests up to the Grand.