This is my Lunch Time Reading recently! We have worked this book with our other labs, but I do believe with Abby being five months old, it is going to be quite the fete! So I am trying to take in as much of the book as possible in the short times I get to pick it up! Has anyone else trained there field dogs with this as a reference?
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Wish I had hunting in my blood but I just don't. I go out every year for my husband's sake not by desire. Last year I saw a deer in the woods for a first but didn't get a shot. I must admit that did excite me a bit. Maybe if I shot one I'd be a little more passionate about it. I do love the outdoors just do not have much for patience. Ha, little off topic for your post but I was reading back a bit on your other posts. We used to have a black lab, for 16 years. Best dog. My husband now has a german short hair he hunts with.
ReplyDeleteI have read a couple of those dog training books by Richard Wolters. I used the techniques in Gun Dog to train my chocolate lab and they worked great. The key is repetition and being firm. I didn't get my lab until he was a year old and he took to the training just fine. I trained him myself using what I read in that book and he turned out to be the best hunting dog I have ever had. Start out slow with the basics (sit, stay, heel) using a leash for the first couple weeks for about 15 minutes a day, then progress on to the more advanced stuff. I highly recommend the book you are reading.
ReplyDeleteI read that years back, but I've read several books on retriever training. I just kinda used everything I read from everywhere to train my dags - I had golden retrievers for years, and hope to get another one sometime in the future.
ReplyDeleteBut he is definately an authority and you can't go wrong using what he teaches. Really looking forward to how the training goes!
We own that book and have used the techniques to train some great dogs. The only dog I have that it failed on (or maybe it was I that failed) is a sweet golden retriever we have who wouldn't hunt if you paid her~
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