HUNTING WITH SPANIELS: TRAINING YOUR FLUSHING DOG

HUNTING WITH SPANIELS: TRAINING YOUR FLUSHING DOG One of Kennel Club Books' Country Dog titles, Hunting with Spaniels covers everything you need to know about selecting, training, & caring for flushing spaniels, including basic first aid. Lessons include basic training, using birds & bumpers, commands, obedience, field training, using whistles, retrieving, acclimating to the sound of gunfire, retrieving in water, marking the object, & quartering a field. Includes a section on The American Kennel Club (AKC) Spaniel Hunt Test program.Kennel Club Books' Country Dog series begins with four titles covering a wide range of interest to urban dog owners, from hunting upland game & small fur with land/water retrievers & spaniels, to working with herding dogs in a hobby farm scenario, to tracking fallen game (as well as missing persons) with an able-nosed canine. The topics covered are as broad & far-ranging as the experience of the first four authors in the series. ISBN: 1-59378-729-4 publish date: 01/31/2010