About Seranoa
John McIltrot
Owner & TrainerA full-time professional pointing dog trainer since he moved from Florida to Montana in 2008, John spends his days with the pointers, setters, and Tennessee Walkers who have been the stabilizing forces in his life for almost 30 years. His process-not-product approach to helping dogs – and dog owners – follows the lead of others such as Delmar Smith and Bill Dorrance. John has developed a low-pressure approach to helping bird dogs learn essential skills: whoa, stop-to-flush, backing, steady to wing-and-shot, handling and patterning.
Taylor Todd
TrainerAbout the facility
Seranoa Kennels is based outside Roundup, Montana and operates out of a 7,000 square foot climate-controlled facility. It is home to the Seranoa string of resident dogs, client dogs, flock of well-fed pigeons, and herd of Tennessee Walking horses.
The home training grounds are the adjacent 3,000 acres of sharptailed grouse habitat which are managed as a habitat restoration project. Central Montana is made up of one of four remaining intact temperate grasslands on earth, and the ranch is home to a variety of native birds, grasses, reptiles, insects, and ungulates.