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Robert Milner has been training dogs professionally for more than thirty years. Over that stretch he has trained about 1500 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, TN, with his wife, Susan and yellow lab, Jake.
Table of Contents:
The Duck Hunt
Training a Gun Dog is Easy
Five Key Points for Training Retrievers
The Top Ten Practices That Interfere with Training
Pup as a Pack Animal
Learning to Speak "Dog"
Inherited Versus Learned Behavior
How To Find a Good Dog
How Pup Learns
More Learning
Eliminating Bad Behavior
Raising Pup in the House
Obedience as a Way of Life
Marked Retrieves
Blind Retrieves
Introducing Pup to Guns, Decoys, ETC.
Water Training
Force-Fetch Training
Training Two or More Dogs
Pheasants, Doves, and Quail
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