The Complete Guide to Developing your Hunting Dog
Number of pages: 254 pages
Copyright: 2013
Cover: Soft cover with color photo support
The ideal hunting retriever is one that can mark singles accurately and can sit and stay on command. But
retrievers can do so much more than that. Tom Dokken has been training dogs for over 40 years and this book is a
concise, easy-to-follow training guide to teach you how to bring out the most in your retriever to unleash his
abilities and potential. When working with your own dog, it allows you to train at your dog's own pace. Learn
the proper techniques of how to teach concepts such as honoring, multiple mark retrieves, blind retrieves over
land and water, and much more! This is a great resource for training that "polished" hunting retriever!
Chapters in this book:
- Equipment for the Serious Trainer
- Advanced Obedience and Force Fetch
- Lining Drills and Advanced Back Command
- First Blind Retrieve
- Advanced Marked Retrieves, Honoring and Other Waterfowl Skills
- Multiple Retrieves
- Advanced Upland Skills
- Retriever Safety Tips
About the Author:
With over 40 years of dog training experience, Tom Dokken has a great deal of knowledge and expertise in turning
retrievers into passionate hunters, successful hunt test and field trial competitors and all round great hunting
companions. Tom Dokken runs his facility, Dokken's Oak Ridge Kennels out of Northfield, MN, which is one of the
largest all-breed hunting training facilities in the USA. Tom Dokken is the mastermind behind the ever so
popular Dokken's Dead Fowl Training Dummy, which was designed to teach your hunting dog how to hold game birds
properly.
