Retrievers - Their Breaking for Sport and Field Trials

This book contains a comprehensive guide to training retrievers, with a special focus on breaking them when they are puppies. Written in simple, plain language and profusely-illustrated, this handbook will be of significant utility to readers wanting to train their retrievers to be gun dogs from an early age. Although old, this guide contains a timeless information, making it both a useful resource and a fine addition to collections of vintage literature. Contents include: "e;Choosing a Puppy"e;, "e;Early Days"e;, "e;Begins to Retrieve"e;, "e;Real Use of Thresh-cord"e;, "e;Introduction to Game"e;, "e;Water Work"e;, "e;Out of the Twelfth"e;, "e;St. Partridge"e;, "e;Getting On"e;, "e;Retriever Trails"e;, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on gun dogs.