Retriever Training

A Back-To-Basics Approach

Robert Milner

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781493083091
• Edition: 1

Through gentle training methods learned from Ray Hunt--the original "horse whisperer"--Robert Milner shows retriever owners how to train the hunting retriever by using its own natural tendencies instead of force. Supplemented with the latest scientific research on how dogs learn, Milner's easy step-by-step training regimen uses positive reinforcement to create the perfect hunting and at-home companion. There is no better training method for the hunter who wants a calm, steady, and obedient retriever.

Milner, who has been training retrievers professionally for more than thirty years, reverses the trend of difficult dogs and difficult training methods and offers a system every hunter can easily understand and follow.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Call to Action
• Foreword
• 1. The Duck Hunt
• 2. Training a Gun Dog is Easy
• 3. Five Key Points for Training Retrievers
• 4. The Top Ten Practices That Interfere with Training
• 5. Pup as a Pack Animal
• 6. Learning to Speak “DOG”
• 7. Inherited Versus Learned Behavior
• 8. How to Find a Good Dog
• 9. How Pup Learns
• 10. More Learning
• 11. Eliminating Bad Behavior
• 12. Raising Pup in the House
• 13. Obedience as a Way of Life
• 14. Marked Retrieves
• 15. Blind Retrieves
• 16. Introducing Pup to Guns, Decoys, Etc.
• 17. Water Training
• 18. Force-Fetch Training
• 19. Training Two or More Dogs
• 20. Pheasants, Doves, and Quail