Author: Robert Milner
Format: Softcover, 208 pages, B&W Photos
Dimensions: (in inches): 0.5 x 6 x 8.8 inches

If it seems like today's retrievers are becoming increasingly hyperactive and hard to train, well, they are, says Robert Milner in this new dog training book on retriever training. And the fault is not only in the breeding but in the training, both of which render a dog better suited for field-trialing than hunting.

To reverse this trend of difficult dogs and difficult training methods, Milner offers a system every bird hunter can easily understand and follow. The back-to-basics approach in this dog training book teaches how to pick a pup that will likely be calm and obedient, and then how to train that pup on the basics of steadiness and obedience to create the perfect hunting and at-home companion.

In Retriever Training, Milner has taken the latest scientific research into how dogs learn and combined it with his own common sense training methods. The result is an approach that is as effective as it is easy. For the hunter who wants a calm, steady, and obedient retriever, there's no better training method than this dog training book.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 – The Duck Hunt
Chapter 2 – Training a Gun Dog Is Easy
Chapter 3 – Five Key Points For Training Retrievers
Chapter 4 – The Top Ten Practices That Interfere with Training
Chapter 5 - Pup as a Pack Animal
Chapter 6 – Learning to Speak “Dog”
Chapter 7 – Inherited Versus Learning Behavior
Chapter 8 – How to Find a Good Dog
Chapter 9 – How Pup Learns
Chapter 10 – More Learning
Chapter 11 – Eliminate Bad Behavior
Chapter 12 - Raising Pup in the House
Chapter 13 – Obedience as a Way of Life
Chapter 14 – Marked Retrieves
Chapter 15 – Blind Retrieves
Chapter 16 – Introducing Pup to Guns, Decoys etc
Chapter 17 – Water Training
Chapter 18 – Force-Fetch Training
Chapter 19 – Training Two or More Dogs
Chapter 20 – Pheasants, Doves and Quail