Humane training methods written in a step-by-step approach helps produce a superior bird dog in minimum time. The speed-train system also makes the process enjoyable for the dog as well as the master.
With its combination of informative instruction and beautiful photography, this is the only training book you'll need to raise a great dog for home and field. Ronnie Smith Kennels provides trainers, owners, and dog handlers with the most refined, developed, and proven methodology for training a pointing dog. The Smith family has spent two generations working thousands of dogs through a stair-step method of replicable techniques that result in a bird dog that is well adjusted, confident, and driven to fulfill its potential. Training Bird Dogs with Ronnie Smith Kennels shares that tradition of excellence and insight with a broader public. A great bird dog is a combination of great genetics, optimal exposure to game, and proven training. This book provides clear, concise lessons that enable owners and trainers to see their dogs as individuals and maximize those individual talents. Yet the lessons go deeper too, illuminating frequent mistakes and the process for correcting them. Written with a keen understanding of how owners go astray, this book allows even a first-time owner the opportunity to work through the phases of training a bird dog. From developing a confident puppy to introducing live birds, this book is an essential reference for both bird dogs and their owners.
Training Your Pointing Dog for Hunting and Home tells how to develop an obedient gun dog that is also an affectionate family companion, with training schedules and advice on everything from handling a newborn pup to teaching advanced field techniques and finely tuned pointing manners. The book presents a simplified, commonsense approach that can be used in its entirety or to troubleshoot individual aspects of your dog's education. Explains the importance of early obedience training and appropriate transition to the field, including tips for retrieving, quartering, sight pointing, and bird work. With proper care and handling, you can cultivate your pup's natural aptitudes and achieve a rewarding relationship with a healthy, happy gun dog. • Tells how to choose the right breed for your personality and hunting and includes training tips for housebreaking and basic living commands • Techniques for introducing the gun, achieving staunchness on point, and advanced field quartering and retrieving • Preventing problem behaviors of deer chasing, blinking, gun shyness, hardmouth, short stopping
The story of a bird dog's early years, showing how an owner selects a pup and finds a trainer. Tips on housebreaking, socialization, basic commands, field training, whistle training and ranging methods, types of training collars, using a check cord, release and fetch commands. Interviews and insights with longtime pointing-dog owners, trainers, and other experts.
Learn how to train your dog for hunting. Chuck's new approach will show you how to train your do to be an outstanding water retriever. Each instructive chapter has a detailed explanation of the training techniques, along with numerous illustrative photos.
Ben O. Williams has become legendary for his hard-charging, bold, and obedient hunting dogs. The training method he has developed over forty years consistently produces dogs that are friendly and affectionate, yet who also perform at the highest level of excellence in the field. And the best part is the Ben O. Williams Instinctive Method revealed in this book is not only easy, but fun for both owner and dog. Both a training manual and a bird philosophy, the heavily-illustrated Bird Dog reveals unique and timed-tested methods that cultivate a dog's desires and instincts to achieve upland hunting bliss, while also creating a loveable home companion. Williams is an acclaimed dog breeder, trainer, and outdoor writer who is the author of several books. He is a dog magazine columnist, and a member of the Orvis Wingshooting Advisory Board. He and his dogs have appeared on many outdoor television shows, including Gray's Sporting Journal.
If you want to hunt with a Pointer, a setter, or any other birddog, at a leisurely pace or in competition, this book will get you off to a proper start as well as have your teamwork with your dog. Spencer, a regular contributor to Gun Dog magazine, covers what to look for in 10 popular breeds of birddog, how to train, where and how to compete, and most important, how to enjoy your huntin' buddy. With a foreword by Herb Holmes.
Bird Dog Training and Problem Solving was written for hunting dog owners to enable them to successfully navigate their way through the myriad of obstacles and difficulties oftentimes encountered while training. This book helps them on their journey through the process of developing the puppy into a finished gun dog. Robert Pettit reveals his secrets of not only how to train and prevent common mistakes, but also gives extensive guidance in the art of rehabilitating problem dogs. Pettit shows that gun dog training can be accomplished by the amateur and made into a rewarding experience for both the dog and his trainer. From the National titles won, to the dogs he's trained that became champions, his techniques have now been made public for the first time. Now you too can become a better trainer and problem solver.