The Pet Gundog Puppy: A common sense approach to training your gundog: 1

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The Gundog Club provides training books to accompany the earlier levels of the Graded Training Scheme and concentrate on basic obedience and retrieving. First published in 1924 as "Dog training by amateurs", this is still widely recognised as one of the best and most valuable gundog training books ever written.

To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. I have only had a terrier before, and although she is reasonably good for a terrier, it doesn't matter too much if she tears off after something when we are out walking on our own farm, but I realise that this is a complete no for a gun dog. Lead work and heeling is one area especially where I think trainers should be more open about what a nightmare process it can be. I do gun dog training with my 7 month old and did a puppy course with them as well so you can find places that take young dogs.trekmoor wrote:My advice for good HPR books is to read a few books on pointer/setter training, a few books on spaniel training and a few books on retriever training. It's old, first published in 1977, and I don't know how well it fits in with today's beliefs on dog training, but DH found bits of it really good for our working gundogs. In this issue, we learn how he has created habitat for game and song birds alike on his Georgian plantation.

This series is the only series of books I have actually read all the way through, they are just so interesting and well written!About CHRISTINe - the only advanced Accredited Pet Gundog Instructor based in somerset Town and Country Dog Training focuses on supporting you to develop your pet gundog into a well-trained and good-mannered companion you can be proud of wherever you go; may it be out in the countryside or in the middle of a town. Regardless of what you plan to do with your pet gundog puppy, from lying at your feet in front of the telly or taking him shooting, the basics are the basics are the basics; and the basics apply whether that’s a Springer Spaniel, a German Short-Haired Pointer or a Labrador.

Ben covers every aspect of owning a gundog, including housing, training, troubleshooting, nutrition, health and exercise. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Next up is, “How to Help Gun Dogs Train Themselves, Taking Advantage of Early Conditioned Learning” by Joan Bailey.

Our childminder has a new lab puppy and would like to train her up so that I can hopefully take her shooting (small scale) / picking up/ tracking maybe wildfowling. Set out in an easily-accessible A-Z format, the author covers all aspects of gundog training as well as giving advice on field trials, breeding and general care and management of gundogs. Copper (the pup) has been receptive to everything this book sets out and has quickly become a well mannered, motivated gundog in training because of it.