Gun-Dog Training Spaniels and Retrievers

Gun-Dog Training Spaniels and Retrievers
Author: Kenneth C. Roebuck
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0811744574

This is the first gun dog book devoted exclusively to the flushing breeds and also covers training retrievers for upland game work. Roebuck gives step-by-step instructions on how your own dog can help improve the hunt.

Retrieving for All Occasions

Retrieving for All Occasions
Author: Elsa Blomster
Publisher: Klickerförlaget Göteborg AB
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-05-07
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9198161350

Do you have a gun dog and want to have a great time working with your dog and perhaps enter a field trial? Do you want to find a training method where your dog has just as much fun as you do? Do you want to learn how to combine reward based training and field trial training? If so, this is the book for you. Retrieving for All Occasions is an accessible and inspiring book about how you can use the reward based training philosophy in your gun dog training. The book describes an approach to gun dog training that will challenge you to try something new – if you have the desire and will to do so. This book includes over 100 exercises to train a talented spaniel or retriever. The exercises are for introductory field trial classes for spaniels and retrievers, but this book is also useful for those who have pointers or setters and want to train them for gun dog work.

British Training for American Retrievers

British Training for American Retrievers
Author: Vic Barlow
Publisher: Willow Creek Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-07-12
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1623435986

There has long been a disconnect between the retriever training methods in the United Kingdom and in North America. British Retriever Trials are primarily a test of the dog's skill as a game finder, while American Field Trials are a test of the handling techniques of the owner. The Brits teach their dogs to find every bird, while American handlers are training for an event in which tracking cripples plays no part. The British manner, for many American and Canadian hunters, makes more sense to them on a day-to-day basis because its aim is to produce a finished gun dog who is steady, quiet, and reliable in the field.

Sporting Dog and Retriever Training: The Wildrose Way

Sporting Dog and Retriever Training: The Wildrose Way
Author: Mike Stewart
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0789324466

A comprehensive guide to transforming your dog into a valuable wing-shooting companion in the field and at home. Created by Mike Stewart of Wildrose Kennels, the Wildrose Way is a unique, low-force, positive training method that is field-proven for upland and waterfowl gundogs. The training prepares dogs for versatility—any game, any terrain, any destination—and makes them desirable companions for any situation. Now, for the first time, Stewart’s methods are compiled in one indispensable reference book, fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Containing chapters on establishing essential behaviors, the core skills of the hunting retriever, and waterdog finishing work, as well as sidebars on such topics as breed selection and effective canine leadership, this step-by-step book is designed specifically for wing-shooters who want to transform their pup into a gentleman’s gundog.

Hup!: Training Flushing Spaniels The American Way

Hup!: Training Flushing Spaniels The American Way
Author: James B. Spencer
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781617812583

Americans who love working spaniels will welcome this comprehensive guide to the selecting, training and enjoying of these delightful breeds! Highly informative, clearly written, and lavishly illustrated, this edition includes information about recent developments in the spaniel world, such as the rebirth of field-bred American Cockers, the resurgence of field trials for English and American Cocker Spaniels, and the current status of the American Water Spaniel Club's classification dilemma. You'll learn about: -Acquiring your flushing spaniel -Training your spaniel -Enjoying your spaniel James B. Spencer is an award-winning dog and outdoor writer who has written seven books andover 500 magazine articles. He writes columns regularly for Gun Dog magazine. Spencer has titled his own dogs in AKC hunting tests for spaniels, retrievers and pointing breeds. He has also judged hunting tests for both spaniels and retrievers.Please be aware that this older title may recommend some training techniques that are now considered outdated. At the time of publication the use of negative reinforcement and positive punishment were more widely used to teach certain types of behaviors, especially with dogs who display a high degree of resilience. We encourage owners to always use the least intrusive, minimally aversive methods possible. iaabc.org/about/position-statements/lima/

Urban Gun Dogs

Urban Gun Dogs
Author: Anthony Z. Roettger
Publisher: Benjamin Schleider
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780615530833

This is a unique field dog training program and guide for hunters, field trial enthusiasts, and dog owners preparing their dogs for hunt tests who reside cities and towns. This step-by-step book helps the urban trainer, constrained by the city environment, to turn an untrained puppy into a highly polished hunting retriever. It offers an extremely unique and detailed program for obedience training in addition to a solid approach for field training. The book contains color photographs of dogs in action, and drawings designed to assist the novice or experienced dog trainer with field exercises. It identifies training locations in and around cities, how to schedule dog training sessions, house training techniques, urban socialization approaches, how to find flushing dog clubs, exercises and drills for indoor training during inclement weather, how to select professional trainers, valuable insight as to how flushing dog hunting tests and field trials are run, and superb handling guidance for

How to Train Your Own Gun Dog

How to Train Your Own Gun Dog
Author: Charles S. Goodall
Publisher: Howell Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988
Genre: Hunting dogs
ISBN: 9780876055625

Describes the characteristics of various breeds, offers tips on selecting a gun-dog puppy, and details the training of pointing dogs, spaniels, and retrievers.

Absolutely Positively Gundog Training

Absolutely Positively Gundog Training
Author: Robert Milner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Hunting dogs
ISBN: 9781514221839

"Traditional gundog training is based on compulsion and rooted in a picture of the dogy's nature as similar to a wolf with much emphasis on dominance and sub ordinance. Milner turns that theory upside down citing research which finds that wolf packs operate in cooperative family groups with minimal factors of dominance. Dogs, Milner believes, learn much faster with a cooperative training model. Milner has chucked compulsion and embraced reward as the primary training tool. He gives the reader a simple, reasonable easy-to-perform training model. His extensive practical experience leads him to condense gundog training down to a few critical behaviors. Milner gives the reader clear concise instructions producing those behaviors to develop an excellent gundog who excels also as a family dog. This is a book on how to manage the strong instincts of retrievers and influence them to work for you and with you to produce a valuable companion that enhances your outdoors experience, be it hunting ducks, or fishing for trout, or hiking in the back country."--Page [4] cover.