Retriever Training: A Back to Basics Approach by Robert Milner

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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

...Retriever Training: A Back to Basics Approach by Robert Milner

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