Training Tips Your Bird Dog Will Love Book by Martha H. Greenlee

A useful, compact guide that will benefit you and your bird dog in training.

1. Advice on Picking a Pup
2. Dog Time
3. Weak Links: The Tale of Two Pups
4. Introducing Quail to Your Pup
5. Forward-Running Dogs
6. Teaching a Young Dog to Come to You
7. Eyes or Nose
8. Developing Point in a Young Dog
9. Understanding the Check-Cord
10. Using the Wind
11. Flushing Birds for Your Dog
12. Before the Workout
13. Check-Cord Tension
14. Stay Out of the Way
15. The Steadying Process with Dominant Dogs
16. "It's a Nothing"
17. Wait for Tomorrow
18. Turning the Corner
19. Verbal Command or E-Collar: One or the Other
20. Creeping
21. Training with Good Flying Quail
22. Stroking the Tail
23. What Is a Balanced Dog?
24. Developing a Work Ethic
25. Delayed Chase
26. Training Intelligent Dogs
27. Self-Awareness
28. Living With Your Mistakes

Martha Greenlee established Piney Run Kennel in 1991. She currently lives in south-central Virginia, where she breeds and trains Brittanys, although she enjoys working all pointing breeds. She has trained and handled her dogs to wins in all-age and shooting dog championships, and many of her dogs have earned AKC Field Champion Titles. Her dog NAC/FC/AFC Piney Run Sam won the Brittany National Amateur Championship in 2000, and her dog NFC/FC/AFC Pine Run Art won the Brittany National Championship in 2011. Besides breeding and training, Martha also enjoys writing about dogs. She wrote Training with Mo: How Maurice Lindley Trains Pointing Dogs, co-authored The Brittany: Amateurs Training with Professionals, and co-edited Hunting Dogs, Field Trial Dogs, Brittanys. She has contributed stories to another anthology and written for several publications, including Field Trial Magazine and American Brittany. In 2011, she authored the eBook What's the Point.

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