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Title: The Labrador Shooting Dog by Mike Gould, Gary Hubbell, Ken McGran, Bruce Keep ISBN: 1-893740-01-3 Publisher: Clinetop Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Confidence is a two way street.
Comment: I felt that Mike Gould's book was a positive move away from the majority of the other training books I have read on the subject. The author makes a point to establish confidence in your dog while at the same time building the dog's confidence in you. After reading this book, I realized that I was asking the dog for too much control and I was teaching the dog to act against its god given insticts. I wish I had read this book earlier in my dog's training, but I still found it very useful for an already started dog. I use my dog as both a waterfowler retriever and as an upland flushing dog and I felt Mr. Gould did an excellent job in training for the all-around hunting dog.
Rating: 5
Summary: You, your dog, and freedom...
Comment: This book is sometimes a little disturbing to those dog enthusiasts who insist on having constant control over their dogs. You know the type...the guys who are constantly tootling on a whistle to get their dogs to quarter 25 yards away from them. Those are the same guys who strap a shock collar on their dogs before they even let them out of the kennel. Mike's training methods are difficult for those fellows to understand. For them, a perfect day is to flush and kill every bird that they see. After all, with their insistence on total control, they may only see three or four birds in a day.
Mike sees it in a totally different way. For him, the perfect day is to flush 40 or 50 birds, pass up shots on a dozen or more, and put two or three in the bag. He will often let his dogs range as far as 300 or 400 yards away, and yes, he gets plenty of shooting. He loves dogs and he loves nature. He would much rather form a team with his dog so that the two of them work in concert with one another, with rarely a word spoken or a whistle blown...and certainly not a knock-down, drag-out battle with the handler screaming at the dog and jolting the hell out of an unwilling dog with a shock collar. Not that Mike lets his dogs run wild. Far from it. His obedience techniques are without peer.
If it sounds like fun to you to spend a lot of time with your best friend--your dog--and do it in peace and quiet, then this is the book for you. Just be willing to open your mind and try Mike's revolutionary training techniques. It's a lot of fun.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but side tracks some!
Comment: I think Mike Gould hits the mark training dog's with out shock collars or harsh discipline. His approach is easy to follow and very informative. His concept of building layers is true to life as well as training gun dog's. The only thing I see wrong with this book is that Mike tells a few to many stories and side tracks during a few training issues. All around this is a pretty solid book that I would recommend to any one who wants to train a hunting dog!
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Title: The Pointing Labrador by Paul Knutson, Julie Knutson ISBN: 1893740048 Publisher: Clinetop Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Water Dog by Richard Wolters, A. Smith ISBN: 0525247343 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Game Dog: The Hunter's Retriever for Upland Birds and Waterfowl : A Concise New Training Method by Richard A. Wolters ISBN: 0525939423 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The 10-Minute Retriever: How to Make an Obedient and Enthusiastic Gun Dog in 10 Minutes a Day by John I. Dahl, Amy Dahl, John Dahl ISBN: 1572233036 Publisher: Willow Creek Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
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Title: Hey Pup, Fetch It Up!: The Complete Retriever Training Book by Bill Tarrant ISBN: 0811707997 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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