Overview

In Professional Gundog Training, best-selling author Joe Irving reveals the techniques used by the top trainers and shows how they can be used by the individual handler in their own training programme. Written in a straightforward A to Z format, the author covers all aspects of training. He also gives advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. At the start of the book the author details a step-by-step training schedule and by following this the reader can plan their dog's training and check that the dog is developing as it should be. The text is accompanied by line drawings and photographs all of which amplify the various points made by the author. With its wealth of sound, practical advice based on forty years' experience of training gundogs, Joe Irving's book will be of benefit to both the new trainer and to those who are more experienced. AUTHOR: Joe Irving has been training gundogs since acquiring his first Springer Spaniel in 1963. A former child psychiatrist, he discovered that his psychiatric training gave a unique perspective to gundog training. He has used this method to great success since becoming a professional trainer in 1972.

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Author:   Joe Irving
Publisher:   Quiller Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Quiller Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
ISBN:  

9781846893155

ISBN 10:   1846893151
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   20 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Preface The ‘Macsiccar’ Training Plan 1 Absconding ❖ Association – Learning By ❖ Amateur Trainers 2 Behavioural Boundaries ❖ Biddability ❖ Boundaries v Hunting ❖ Blinking Game ❖ Blood scent v Powder scent ❖ Boredom ❖ Breakers ❖ Breaking Cover ❖ Breeder ❖ Breeding 3 Car Sickness ❖ Case Hardening ❖ Chastisement ❖ Check Cords ❖ Conditioned Experience ❖ Creative Imagination ❖ Crowd Shyness 4 Dangerous Venues ❖ Dashing along the Hedgerows ❖ Dead There ❖ Directing the ‘Turn’ Signal ❖ Discipline ❖ Discouraging Game ❖ Disobedience ❖ Disobeying the ‘Return’ Whistle ❖ Dog Schoolmaster ❖ Drop – Disobedience ❖ Drop – Disobedience To ❖ Dummies ❖ Dummy Launchers 5 Ears ❖ Eye Colour – Hard ❖ Eye Shy ❖ Eye Wipe ❖ Eyesight ❖ Experts 6 Field Trials ❖ First Season’s Experience 7 Game ❖ Game Sense ❖ Genetics ❖ Genetic Insight ❖ Get In ❖ Get On ❖ Get Out/Go Back ❖ Gone Away ❖ Gun Nervous ❖ Gun Shy 8 Habits ❖ Hand Signals ❖ Hand Training ❖ Hand Training – Sitting at a Distance ❖ Hand Training – Returning to Whistle ❖ Hard Mouth ❖ Heel ❖ Hi–Lost ❖ Hiss 9 In-Breeding ❖ Indiscriminate Breeding ❖ Inheritance ❖ Injuries 10 Judges and Judging ❖ Jumping 11 Kennels – Reluctance to Return To ❖ Kennel Sickness ❖ Know-How 12 Leave It ❖ Line Breeding ❖ Lineage ❖ Lining Ground Scent 13 Mistakes 14 Neurotic Aversion to Scent ❖ No 15 Out-Cross Breeding ❖ ‘Over’ 16 Pickled Piper ❖ Prankish Gun ❖ Predators ❖ Preparation For a Field Trial ❖ Professional Trainers ❖ Professionalism 17 Quartering ❖ Quartering – Cheek Wind Beat ❖ Quartering – Down Wind Beat 18 Rabbit Pen Construction ❖ Rabbit Pen Substitutes ❖ Retrieves – Frozen ❖ Retrieving – Encouraging a Good Delivery ❖ Retrieving – Forced 19 Scent ❖ Sheep Dogging ❖ Shot – Dropping To ❖ Sighted Retrieves ❖ Stinking Out ❖ Substitute Judges 20 Taking Signalled Directions at Distance ❖ The Three Ladies ❖ Tracking or Taking a Line ❖ Training Collars ❖ Trust Your Dog ❖ Trust Yourself 21 Unmarked Retrieves ❖ Unseen Multiple Dummies 22 Videos ❖ Voice 23 Water – Introduction To ❖ Water – Retrieving From ❖ Whistles ❖ Wind–Cheek Treatment ❖ Wind – Down Treatment 24 Yapping – Yipping – Giving Tongue

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Professional Gundog Training looks set to become a classic in its own right. A must for anyone eager to understand more about his or her pooch. * Shooting Times * Written in a straightforward A-Z format this is a very handy reference book for anyone undertaking the challenging task of training a gundog. * Shooting Gazette *

'Written in a straightforward A-Z format this is a very handy reference book for anyone undertaking the challenging task of training a gundog.' Shooting Gazette; 'Full of common sense advice for training all types of dogs.' Annandale Series; 'Professional Gundog Training looks set to become a classic in its own right. A must for anyone eager to understand more about his or her pooch.' Shooting Times

Author Information

Joe Irving, winner of the prestigious McNeil Professional Handlers' Cup, was the author of a number of gundog training books including the classic titles 'Training Spaniels' and 'Gundogs; Their Learning Chain' (both published by Quiller Publishing). He was training gundogs since acquiring his first Springer Spaniel in 1963. A former child psychiatrist, he discovered that his psychiatric training gave a unique perspective to gundog training. He used this method to great success as a professional trainer.

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