Training Bird Dogs with Ronnie Smith Kennels Book by Reid Bryant with Ronnie Smith and Susanna Love

This is the only training book you'll need to raise a great dog for home and field.

Copyright 2019, 256 pages, hardcover, color photos and illustrations 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 stairstep 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 the 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 bird dog owners. Table of Contents:

Foreward

Introduction

History

Part 1: Development

The Development of a Training Method
The Relationship Between Dogs and Their Trainers
Raw Material: Picking a Puppy
Getting the Right Start: Puppy Development
1. Socialization: What Is Socialization and Why Is It Important?
2. Building Behaviors and Experience in the Field

Part 2: Formal Training

The Foundation Level of Training
1. Understanding Cues, Acknowledgements, and Compliance
2. The Classroom Setting: The Tie-Out
3. Field Workouts
4. Obedience Workouts
The Intermediate Level of Training
1. Transitioning Cues to the Training Collar
2. Field Work
The Advanced Level of Training Transitions

Part 3: Becoming a Bird Dog

The Rookie Year
1. Transition to Wild Birds
2. Competitions

What We Have Learned

Glossary

Acknowledgements

About Ronnie Smith: Ronnie Smith has professionally trained gun dogs and field trial dogs since 1982. He owns and operates Ronnie Smith Kennels with his wife and coauthor, Susanna Love, a fifth-generation rancher whose articles have been published in magazines such as Shooting Sportsman and Pointing Dog Journal.

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Code: 8688

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