The Pet Gundog Puppy: A common sense approach to training your gundog: 1

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Next up is, “How to Help Gun Dogs Train Themselves, Taking Advantage of Early Conditioned Learning” by Joan Bailey. This stunning 328-page hardback is divided into 25 easy-to-follow chapters with real world examples of how to build trust and mutual respect with your gundog, from tiny puppy right through to mature adult venturing out on its first day in the field. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

We had a fabulous Gundog Trainer when our boy as a pup and did 1-2-1 sessions as soon as vaccinations permitted which were great fun and very enlightening! Now that I’ll be doing hunt-specific training, I’ll be using a variety of texts to start and finish my gun dog, and these are the ones I’ll be leaning on. The reality is rather more like this: Have your pup dancing around on the lead at all angles like a fish on a line. Even if the human’s objective is simply to raise a well-mannered family member and companion, this book is a MUST READ.With the hup command, for example, I just kept saying hup to my pup and waving my hand or a toy vaguely about in the air above its head, and it got the message after a while. Printed in 1998, not only is it full of useful training advice from an experienced spaniel handler, it contains a unique analysis of successful Field Trial spaniels in the UK. I do gun dog training with my 7 month old and did a puppy course with them as well so you can find places that take young dogs. Most browsers allow you to block cookies within their settings and we have provided links to the most commonly used browsers.

If you want to take advantage of your gundog’s innate behaviour so that walks become a pleasure, your home stays intact and you have a happy, contented and fulfilled companion, then The Pet Gundog needs to be on your bookshelf. Contrary to the impression you may get from a training manual, you can be quite flexible about how you teach a command. Her methods are based on building a trusted relationship with your dog, and to learn to communicate and train your companion with common sense. This book will help you to raise a happy and healthy gundog puppy, and to prevent and solve any problems that might crop up along the way.His opinions, often openly controversial, are therefore backed by considerable experience, and given for what they are worth, without any attempt to impose them on the reader. I did a gundog puppy class with mine and it was mainly the stuff you’d do in a general puppy class but out in a field and we started some basic retrieve work. We had an excellent first night with our new Golden, I think in part because I’d read this first and felt confident in my methods and communication with her.

Copper (the pup) has been receptive to everything this book sets out and has quickly become a well mannered, motivated gundog in training because of it.If your puppy hasn't reached the adolescent stage, and by that I mean he’s under four and a half months old, then do yourself a favour and go for The Pet Gundog Puppy rather than this book as The Pet Gundog has been written with dogs over 5 months in mind. Chapters include: The first lesson - obedience; Teaching to drop at a distance; First lesson in retrieving; Exceptions among dogs, and sundry hints; Finding promiscuously hidden dummies; First lesson with the spring thrower; The report of the gun, and further lessons in steadiness; Introduction to fur and teaching to point; Teaching to get through a fence; Teaching to jump fences and gates, together with seasonable hints; Teaching to find game and follow a runner; Teaching to follow a laid line; Teaching to retrieve from or across water; Teaching spaniels to hunt their game; The first shooting expedition; Mainly about spaniels. Additionally, the following books will help discern which gundogs will be best in certain regions of the country.

Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.Her latest book, The Happy Puppy Handbook, is a comprehensive guide to welcoming a new puppy into your life. trekmoor wrote:My advice for good HPR books is to read a few books on pointer/setter training, a few books on spaniel training and a few books on retriever training. Teaching a gundog to properly point, flush, and fetch birds seems easy, but there is a lot that goes into it. I must admit I found Joe's books a wee bit hard to read, no doubting the content thou, he did know his stuff.