Training Your Pointing Dog for Hunting & Home

by Richard Weaver

Overview

• Tells how to choose the right breed for your personality and hunting and includes training tips for housebreaking and basic living commands
• Techniques for introducing the gun, achieving staunchness on point, and advanced field quartering and retrieving
• Preventing problem behaviors of deer chasing, blinking, gun shyness, hardmouth, short stopping

Training Your Pointing Dog for Hunting and Home tells how to develop an obedient gun dog that is also an affectionate family companion, with training schedules and advice on everything from handling a newborn pup to teaching advanced field techniques and finely tuned pointing manners. The book presents a simplified, commonsense approach that can be used in its entirety or to troubleshoot individual aspects of your dog's education. Explained is the importance of early obedience training and appropriate transition to the field, including tips for retrieving, quartering, sight pointing, and bird work. With proper care and handling, you can cultivate your pup's natural aptitudes and achieve a rewarding relationship with a healthy, happy gun dog.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811745178
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	08/02/2007
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Dick Weaver has been training and breeding gun dogs professionally for more than forty-seven years. He has written articles for RGS Magazine, Game News, and Virginia Sportsman and is also the author of Grouse Dogs. Weaver lives with his dual-type English setters in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.