Gun Dog Obedience Part 1 DVD with Dan HosfordEssential Skills for a Solid Foundation
To develop a high-quality, versatile gun dog, you need basic obedience. Without it, your dog lacks focus, respect and control. Thanks to the detailed, step-by-step instructions presented in Gun Dog Obedience Part 1: Essential Skills for a Solid Foundation, you'll learn how to keep your dog safe and within your control. Using inexperienced dogs that are learning the commands for the first time, Dan Hosford demonstrates how to:
Praise and reward your dog
Properly use a lead
Use different kinds of collars
He also shows you -- without using food rewards -- how to teach your dog to:
Sit
Heel
Stay
Load into a dog crate
These skills lay the foundation for the next Working Man's Retriever training video, Gun Dog Obedience Part 2: Advanced Skills for the Field.
Features:
In-depth, step-by-step instructions that train YOU and your dog
Nearly 3 hours of training broken into progressive, easy-to follow sequences
Inexperienced dogs that are going through the program for the first time
Real-life, in-the-moment training footage
Slow-motion, instant replay for complex segments
Troubleshooting for common problems
About Dan Hosford:
Dan Hosford's career as a dog trainer, like so many of the world's great starts, was borne of necessity. For him, he simply wanted to easily retrieve the birds he harvested. At the time (in the late 1960s), he lived in Idaho's northern panhandle. Duck hunting was in its prime there but despite being an avid hunter, Dan hadn't tried it yet. One day, a friend invited him to give it a go. The two had everything prepared (or so it seemed) until they were actually trying to collect the downed birds. Even with waders on, they got wet, cold and just plain uncomfortable. Their conversations delved into, "There's gotta be a better way." And there was. Later that day, they watched as a man coached a dog to retrieve a bird, and Dan's involvement with hunting dogs began.
Since that initial introduction and after subsequent years of self-teaching, reading, and trial and error, Dan started training other people's dogs. "I began incorporating more dog psychology into my training program and found far greater success," he says. "To this day, I still base my entire program for both upland and waterfowl hunting on a solid foundation of obedience and dog psychology."
He's had more than 35 years to practice. He excels at teaching the "Conditioned Response to Retrieve" (aka Force Fetch) and many of his clients come to him with this problem. They rely on his quiet, confident style to bring their dogs to the required level. He communicates clearly what he's doing and why he's doing it, so that owners walk away fully educated.
He has titled five 1,000 point Grand Master Hunting Retriever Champions (GMHRCH), plus hundreds of Intermediate and Started dogs in the North American Hunting Retriever Association (NAHRA) program. Plus, he's competed in six NAHRA Richard Wolters Invitationals, qualifying 14 dogs. In the equivalent American Kennel Club (AKC) hunt tests, he has titled one Master, 3 Seniors and numerous Juniors. He has sat on several NAHRA committees and was tapped twice by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) to hold retriever demonstrations at RMEF's American Outdoor Experience in Bristol, TN.
In addition to running his training facility, Dan and his wife, Janette, operate a kennel in Spokane, WA.
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