Sporting Dog and Retriever Training: The Wildrose Way
Sporting Dog and Retriever Training: The Wildrose Way

Author: Mike Stewart

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0789324466

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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.

Tom Dokken's Retriever Training
Tom Dokken's Retriever Training

Author: Tom Dokken

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1440224889

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Hunting Success Begins Here! In Tom Dokken's Retriever Training, America's leading trainer helps you channel your hunting dog's huge ambition so he works for you, the way you want, and does so happily.After using the time-tested methods in Tom Dokken's Retriever Training, you'll have a reliable retriever that: • Obeys commands on- and off-leash • Retrieves birds to hand • Remains steady to shot • Quarters and flushes upland game • Finds downed birds • Takes hand signals

Showing Kunga
Showing Kunga

Author: Alxe Noden

Publisher: Dogwise Publishing

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1617810940

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Insights into the world of dog shows and showing dogs from a complete beginner who now proudly calls herself a "Dog Show Junkie." Revealing, humorous and realistic, this may turn you into a junkie too!

Retriever Training
Retriever Training

Author: Robert Milner

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781572233911

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Robert Milner has been training dogs professionally for more than thirty years. Over that stretch he has trained about 1,500 retrievers for hunting and field trials, drug and explosive detection, and even search-and-rescue operations. He taught obedience classes at the University of Memphis for ten years, and has judged retriever trials in both the U.S. and in England. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee, with his wife, Susan, and yellow Lab, Jake.

Absolutely Positively Gundog Training
Absolutely Positively Gundog Training

Author: Robert Milner

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781514221839

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"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.

The 10-minute Retriever
The 10-minute Retriever

Author: John Dahl

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781572233034

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Outlines 10-minute daily training sessions tailored specifically to a retriever's attention span, counseling beginner-level owners on such topics as force fetching, field tests and the humane use of electric collars, in a volume complemented by true stories and breed-specific adaptations.

Tom Dokken's Advanced Retriever Training
Tom Dokken's Advanced Retriever Training

Author: Tom Dokken

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2013-06-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781440234538

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Many hunters consider their retrievers to be "polished" if the dog sits, stays, retrieves marked singles and won't run off. However, retrievers of every breed have so much potential. This book condenses Tom's 40-plus years of dog training into a concise, easy-to-follow guide that helps you unlock the magic within your retriever. Working at your own pace, and with vivid visual instructions, you'll learn how to teach your dog honoring, multiple marked retrieves, blind retrieves over land and water, and much more. Arguable America's best-known retriever trainer, Tom as four-plus decades of experience turning retrievers into successful hunt-test competitors, field-trail participants and great hunting companions. He operates Dokken's Oak Ridge Kennels in Northfield, Minn., which is also one of the country's largest all-breed hunting dog training facilities. He also creates the popular Dokken's Dreadfowl Trainer dummy, which is designed to teach dogs the proper hold on game birds.

Finished Dog
Finished Dog

Author: Charles Jurney

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781641130691

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This book is designed to produce a finished retriever for waterfowl hunting, upland hunting, field trial or hunt testing. Finished Dog is full of dog training tips and is loaded with diagrams and photos detailing how to develop and train your retriever. Charles Jurney teaches how to use an e-collar the correct way, but he also understands that this method is not for everyone. He covers both e-collar and non-collar training in this book.

Best Way to Train Your Gun Dog
Best Way to Train Your Gun Dog

Author: Bill Tarrant

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780679507505

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Expert instructions in the training method of Delmar Smith, winner of ten national championships, are supplmented with photographs of the fine points and problem situations

The Egg and I
The Egg and I

Author: Betty MacDonald

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1987-08-05

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0060914289

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When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, she was largely unprepared for the rigors of life in the wild. With no running water, no electricity, a house in need of constant repair, and days that ran from four in the morning to nine at night, the MacDonalds had barely a moment to put their feet up and relax. And then came the children. Yet through every trial and pitfall—through chaos and catastrophe—this indomitable family somehow, mercifully, never lost its sense of humor. A beloved literary treasure for more than half a century, Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I is a heartwarming and uproarious account of adventure and survival on an American frontier.