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How to Help Gun Dogs Train Themselves: Taking Advantage of Early Conditioned Learning |  | Author: Joan Bailey
Creator: John K Lundberg Jr
Publisher: Swan Valley Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: $22.00
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1049545
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 222
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0963012711
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.752
EAN: 9780963012715
ASIN: 0963012711
Publication Date: May 1, 1998
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Product Description
An easy to use guide for either the first time gun dog owner, or for the veteran dog owner. LEARN:
How to Socialize, expose and condition your gun dog during the first 12 months of his life. How easy it is to cultivate your gun dog's natural hunting talents the easy, painless, fun way. How to utilize the young dog's critical developmental months. How to avoid mistakes that can ruin a good gun dog.
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 Good Dog May 19, 2009
Stephen Mattox
Great book. Written in a narrative point of view for first half then step by step instruction in the second half. Joan Bailey is not an accredited author by any means but she does have a lot of experience working with dogs.
 Great for Novice Birddog owners December 21, 2003
Erin Marion Horan (Millbury, MA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an awesome book for novice birddog people. I highly recommend it, and give it to my (Pointer) puppy buyers. My favorite feature is that at the back of the book there are lists of things to remember to expose your puppy to by a certain age so that you'll end up with a stable dog. I pull it out every time I raise a pup as a sort of checklist. I agree with the majority of what the author has to say, and the author tends not to take sides (like on the issue of force retrieving). The book does have some info that is geared towards versatile birddogs rather than just Pointing dogs, which is fine as long as you are able to seperate what your dog needs to know. This book is geared towards the first year of puppyhood, not training... which is great as there are not a whole lot of books out there for this. Helps you to remember they are just pups and to just let them grow up for a while.
This book covers the important fundamental basics. January 13, 2003
Dennis M. Carlson (Oregon)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is different from the other hunting dog training books I've read. It covers a puppy's early development as a whole dog. Joan Bailey takes you from your puppy's first day in your home, through adolescence, to early adulthood. It will show you how to help your dog become both a member of your family and an excellent hunting companion. This book explains why a particular training method might work and how to develop a cooperative relationship with your dog.
 No bad,...not good, but not bad. April 7, 2002
Cris Sherman (Mountlake Terrace, WA United States)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is fine for the average person who has no experience with dogs. But for the average gun dog owner, the first half of the book is a waste of time. The last half does have some good ideas, but I would rather spend my money on something more informative such as the writings of Bill Tarrant, especially the Delmar Smith method. It's hard to argue with success and Smith's training methods earned him many national champions. As for this book, I found myself in disagreement with a couple of the training methods, especially gun conditioning. Overall, it's a good book with many great ideas for the beginner.
Overall, an excellant book! June 16, 2001
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
There are (too) many "how-to" sporting dog training books available, but I found this one to be different in how it focuses on first year conditioning of the pup rather than training, per se. I didn't agree with everything - not that you would - but I followed about 90% of the author's thoughts and found my dog's second year training to be MUCH EASIER. I think this is important if you have a sensitive breed that won't tolerate heavy handed training, such as mine. It also explained in considerable detail that way in which the puppy learns and this allowed me to sort of 'get inside' my dog's head to better understand how to do the conditioning and training so that he would be successful and the process would go faster and better.
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