Supplies tips on training retrievers and describes methods for testing the skills of hunting dogs in the field

Retriever Training Tests

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Spencer, James B.

Pets & Animal Care

Arco Pub.

HUP!: Training Flushing Spaniels The American Way

Describes eight breeds of spaniel, offers advice on training, and tells how to prepare the dogs for hunting as well as field trials

Hup!: Training Flushing Spaniels the American Way

Howell Book House

As an amateur trainer, you have many advantages that a pro can envy. For example, the amateur can develop greater rapport with his or her dog. He has more time, so he does not need to use pressure techniques. He even has better access to the training grounds best suited to the initial stages of almost every phase of training. Spencer helps you make full use of them, and get top notch results with kinder, gentler training methods 
Spencer guides you step-by-step through: 
*Puppy Training *Basic Obedience *Single Marked Retrieves *Force-BreakingÂ—why and how *Double Marked Retrieves *Basic Blind Retrieve Training *Advanced Marks and Blinds

Training Retrievers for the Marshes and Meadows

Denlingers Pub Ltd

Hunting Retrievers: Hindsights Foresights Insights

Alpine Pubns Inc

As an amateur trainer, you have many advantages that a pro can envy. For example, the amateur can develop greater rapport with his or her dog. He has more time, so he does not need to use pressure techniques. He even has better access to the training grounds best suited to the initial stages of almost every phase of training. Spencer helps you make full use of them, and get top notch results with kinder, gentler training methods 
Spencer guides you step-by-step through: 
*Puppy Training *Basic Obedience *Single Marked Retrieves *Force-Breaking—why and how *Double Marked Retrieves *Basic Blind Retrieve Training *Advanced Marks and Blinds

This book is a supplement to a complete training manual. It focuses on how to set up effective drills and why you should use them. 
Here is the most comprehensive collection of drills ever compiled into book form—techniques that formerly have been spread primarily by word of mouth. Throughout Spencer keeps in mind the limitations under which most amateurs train. Each drill is diagramed, with a careful explanation of the purpose, prerequisites, necessary equipment, and pitfalls to avoid. The exercises herein are limited to field work and oriented to amateurs training their own dogs for hunting or hunt tests. Only you can turn them into drills—by running your dog through them repetitively!

Retriever Training Drills for Marking

*An overview of blind retrieve 
*Lining drills 
*Stopping drills 
*Casting concepts

Retriever Training Drills for Blind Retrieves

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 * Eight flushing spaniel breeds from a hunter’s point of view * How to locate your ideal spaniel * How to start your pup and adult

Point! Training the All-Seasons Birddog is for serious birddog enthusiasts who want to get the most out of their birddog. Read this book to get started on the right foot by first selecting the breed that's just right for you. Part I takes a look at the Pointer, English Setter, Irish Setter, Gordon Setter, Brittany, German Short-haired Pointer, German Wirehaired Pointer, Weimaraner, Vizsla and the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon. Next, you'll learn all you need to know to train your birddog into a successful hunting companion. Includes puppy training, yard breaking, bringing out the pointing instinct, developing ground patterns and basic hunting fundamentals as well as stopping to flush, steadying and honoring, retrieving and force breaking. Along with bird hunting, you and your dog can enjoy participating in off-season activities like field trials, hunting tests and other competitive and noncompetitive sporting events. The book also contains an extensive glossary of birddog terms - perfect for those new to the field and an appendix explaining how to read birddog pedigrees. Whether you are training your own birddog or own a professionally trained dog, Point! Training the All-Seasons Birddog will help you understand how to keep your dog trained and ready for the hunt.

Point!: Training the All-Seasons Birddog

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/

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Retriever Training Tests

Hup!: Training Flushing Spaniels the American Way

Training Retrievers for the Marshes and Meadows

Hunting Retrievers: Hindsights Foresights Insights

Training Retrievers for the Marshes and Meadows

Retriever Training Drills for Marking

Retriever Training Drills for Blind Retrieves

Hup!: Training Flushing Spaniels the American Way

Point!: Training the All-Seasons Birddog

HUP!: Training Flushing Spaniels The American Way