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Absolutely positively gundog training : positive training for your retriever gundog  Cover Image Book Book

Absolutely positively gundog training : positive training for your retriever gundog

Summary:

"Traditional gundog training is based on compulsion and rooted in a picture of the dogy's nature as similar to a wolf with much emphasis on dominance and sub ordinance. Milner turns that theory upside down citing research which finds that wolf packs operate in cooperative family groups with minimal factors of dominance. Dogs, Milner believes, learn much faster with a cooperative training model. Milner has chucked compulsion and embraced reward as the primary training tool. He gives the reader a simple, reasonable easy-to-perform training model. His extensive practical experience leads him to condense gundog training down to a few critical behaviors. Milner gives the reader clear concise instructions producing those behaviors to develop an excellent gundog who excels also as a family dog. This is a book on how to manage the strong instincts of retrievers and influence them to work for you and with you to produce a valuable companion that enhances your outdoors experience, be it hunting ducks, or fishing for trout, or hiking in the back country."--Page [4] cover.

Contents:

The journey
The dog
Pick a dog that fits
Training the gundog
Gundog behaviors: innate and trained
Punishment and unwanted behaviors
Communication: you said what?
Cues, commands, and prompts
Delivery to hand
Place boards and steadiness
Long unseen cripple
Hunger games
Frequency and duration of training sessions
The trainer's behavior
Hunting your dog: upland dog, shed dog, deer dog
Housetraining and heeling
A history of Labradors and field trials
An elephant in the room
Teaching tales
Retriever gundogs and field trials.

Item details

  • ISBN: 1514221837
  • ISBN: 9781514221839
  • Physical Description: 135 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: North Charleston, South Carolina : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, [2015]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:
The journey
The dog
Pick a dog that fits
Training the gundog
Gundog behaviors: innate and trained
Punishment and unwanted behaviors
Communication: you said what?
Cues, commands, and prompts
Delivery to hand
Place boards and steadiness
Long unseen cripple
Hunger games
Frequency and duration of training sessions
The trainer's behavior
Hunting your dog: upland dog, shed dog, deer dog
Housetraining and heeling
A history of Labradors and field trials
An elephant in the room
Teaching tales
Retriever gundogs and field trials.
Subject: Hunting dogs Training
Retrievers Training
Hunting dogs Training
Retrievers Training

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Roddenbery Memorial Library System:
      Roddenbery Memorial Library
AN 636.7527 MIL ( Send Text)
31046005881855 ADULT Available
Southwest Georgia Regional Library System:
      Decatur County Public Library
636.75 MIL 2015 ( Send Text)
: Fogg Plantation, Wildlife and Environmental Collection
31052007514015 STACKS Available


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