Gun Dog Training: Pointing Dogs (Book)

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Hardback.

Includes the care and training of all pointing breeds

Gives your pup the right start with sound basics int the first formative weeks of training and moves on to more advanced lessons - quartering, staunchness, steadiness to wing and shot, backing another dog . .

Helps you train your dog to a higher standard

INTRODUCTION

SELECTING YOUR DOG

Choice of Breed

Picking a Puppy

Considering a Trained Dog

Feeding

Humanizing

CHOICE OF HOUSING

Your Home or a Kennel

House Training

Making or Buying a Dog Run

Building a Doghouse

EQUIPMENT

Training-Kit List

The Check Line

The Quail Call-back Pen

Electronic Training Devices

STARTING RIGHT

The Psychological Approach

List of Commands

First Points

The Leash and Walking to Heel

The Recall

Introduction to the Gun

Introduction to Water

INITIAL TRAINING

Observations on Steadiness

When to start

The "Whoa" Command and Stopping to Whistle

Quartering

Retrieving Dummies

Steadiness to Shot

FAULTS

Fear of the Gun

Hard Mouth

Retrieve Problems and Forced Training

Blinking

Flagging on Point

USE OF BIRDS IN TRAINING

Quail and Chukar Partridge

Pigeons

Pheasants

Bird Planting and Release Cages

ADVANCED TRAINING

Pointing and Staunchness

Steadiness to Wing

Retrieving Birds

Backing Another Dog

The "Sit" and the "Down"

Retrieving from Water

HUNTING YOUR DOG

First Trips Afield

Working Dogs at a Shooting Preserve

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