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The Brittany: Amateurs Training with Professionals
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The Brittany: Amateurs Training with Professionals
The Brittany: Amateurs Training with Professionals will enable amateur pointing dog trainers to train hunting dogs that they will be proud of and field trial dogs that will win. While emphasis is on the Brittany, this book will help...
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The Brittany: Amateurs Training with Professionals
The Brittany: Amateurs Training with Professionals will enable amateur pointing dog trainers to train hunting dogs that they will be proud of and field trial dogs that will win. While emphasis is on the Brittany, this book will help people who train pointing dogs become better trainers. The information in this book emphasizes a step-by-step training process and focuses on the logical progression of the steps. Field trialers and trainers Martha H. Greenlee and David A. Webb (author of A Feisty Little Pointing Dog) have combined their decades of experience with the expertise of the country's top Brittany pros to create an immensely useful guide for anyone who is interested in working with Brittanys.
Paperback, 119 pages.
Chapter Page # Chapter One: Picking a Pup and Getting Started 1 Chapter Two: Using Birds for Field Training 7 Chapter Three: Introducing Bird and Gunfire 14 Chapter Four: Training During the First Eighteen Months 25 Chapter Five: Beginning Yard Work 43 Chapter Six: Training With the E-Collar 52 Chapter Seven: Teaching Steady-to-Wing-and-Shot 86 Chapter Eight: Providing Additional Training 74 Chapter Nine: Talking with Professionals 82 Chapter Ten: Reflecting 92 Appendix A: Resources 96 Appendix B: Recalling Quail 98 Appendix C: Scent 191 Appendix D: The Brittany in America 112
List of Illustrations
Illustration Page # Tethering a Pigeon 8 Dizzying a Pigeon 9 Puppy Stalking a Quail 16 Introducing Gunfire 21 Hiding from a Puppy 26 Three Dog Stakeout 31 Dog in a Roading Harness Dragging a Cable 35 The Training Collar 43 Positioning the Training Collar 46 Hand Resting on the Transmitter 57 Testing a Dog's Comprehension of "Whoa" 59 Bringing a Dog Downwind of the Scent 67 Backing a Silhouette 77 Quail Feeder 100 Pre-Re-releasing System for Quail 102 -
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