Books and Videos
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Sound Beginnings
Retriever Training DVD
Eighty minute video on Advancing your pup with Sound Progressive Positive methods. Jackie Mertens is one of the most successful amateur retriever trainers and breeders in North America. She has trained and titled numerous FC/AFC retrievers. She is a six time finalist at the National Open/National Amateur Retriever Championships. She won the National Amateur Championship with her NAFC FC Topbrass Cotton, who is also the all time high point Golden Retriever in field trial history.
by Cherylon Loveland and Clarice Rutherford
Basic training to help you turn your young retriever into an efficient and enthusiastic worker
This book is directed to owners of retriever puppies in their
first year, but the program is equally effective with young retrievers
starting beyond that age. It gives your retriever the necessary
disciplines and skills he will need to become a reliable hunting
companion. The authors assume that most puppies grow up as house pets,
and so throughout the program lessons that every companion dog needs to
learn are also stressed. Puppies learn best with step-by-step
progression, so using this program as a guide, you will have a retriever
that can go on to be successful in whatever field you choose—competitive
or non-competitive.
• Work with your puppy’s unique personality
• Correlate lessons to the pup’s mental and physical development
• Train with lessons that are progressive, thorough, uncomplicated
and most of all, effective!
• Introduction to Land and Water Marks
• Step-by-Step Obedience
• Hold Made Easy
• Mastering Force Fetch
• Complete Collar Conditioning
• Steadying Your Pup
• Quartering for Upland Game
• Force to Pile
• Indirect Pressure
• Whistle Sit
• Mini T
• Double T
• Swim By
• Remote Swim By
• Blind Drills
• Diversion Drills
• Cheating Singles
• Remote Blind Drills
• Marked Blinds
• 3 Legged Cold Blinds
• In Line Marking Drill
• Wagon Wheel
• Tune Up Drills
• Walk Around Blinds
• Cheating Singles as Blinds
• Advanced Cheating Singles
• Cold Water Blinds
Basics
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"It's a well-known fact that To build a home you must create a solid foundation. Retriever training is no different. To create a solid gun dog, test dog, or trial dog, you must build a strong foundation. That foundation is none other than 'Basics.' It's the most important part of your retriever's training life."- Danny Farmer, VinWood Kennels
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It has been said that retriever training is a man’s game; but, SHE changed this sport forever. Most experienced dog handlers believe that Judy Aycock is, without question, the finest amateur retriever trainer who has ever lived. Her list of accomplishments is long and distinguished but perhaps her greatest gift to the sport of retriever training was a student.
This particular student started out as a Louisiana duck hunter and would soon change the sport as we know it. His name is Danny Farmer.
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