Tom Dokken's Retriever Training

Author: Tom Dokken
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440224889
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
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

Tom Dokken's Advanced Retriever Training

Author: Tom Dokken
Publisher: Krause Publications
ISBN: 9781440234538
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
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.

Game Dog

Author: Richard A. Wolters
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525939423
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
The most efficient dog training book for retrievers hunting upland birds and waterfowl—from the author of Water Dog. This time-proven guide by legendary trainer Richard A. Wolters offers a step-by-step method for completely training your dog, resulting in a skilled hunting retriever by the time your pet is one year old. In Game Dog, you’ll discover: • How to choose a pup—what to look for, where to find the best • The five critical periods of a dog's mental development • Which retrievers are easier to train—males or females • How to get two dogs to work together • Why feeding time is more than food • How to teach your dog to track, quarter, and swim after game • How to get your dog to betray his instincts and obey your commands • Which tasks your dog must master to qualify as a hunter • And much more... Fully illustrated, Game Dog is an invaluable book for every hunter training a retriever and every pet owner who wants a better trained dog. “Wolters has produced a solid book that will be of great help to anyone training his retriever to work. He is an acknowledged master in the field and an excellent instructor.”—Dog Fancy

Retriever Training

Author: Robert Milner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572233911
Category : Retrievers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Training Your Retriever

Author: James Lamb Free
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description

Training the Versatile Hunting Dog

Author: Chuck Johnson
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
ISBN: 9781932098358
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
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.

Tri-Tronic's Retriever Training

Author: Jim Dobbs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description

The 10-minute Retriever

Author: John Dahl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781572233034
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
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.

Training Bird Dogs with Ronnie Smith Kennels

Author: Reid Bryant
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0789336790
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
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 Retrievers

Author: Bobby N. George
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892726998
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the opinion of many, nobody was more influential or had a greater impact on retrievers- their training, handling, and breeding - than Cotton Pershall. The book includes complete techniques and training guidelines for lining, marking, obedience training, play training, handling doubles and triples easily, land and water retrieving, the forced retrieve, techniques to make your dog a more effective waterfowl retriever, and starting puppies through finishing a dog- as well as 50 years of reminiscences about dogs, trainers, waterfowl hunts, and field trials.