The Working Springer Spaniel: How to Choose, Train, Work, Breed and Trial the World's Most Popular Sporting Spaniel, Including a Section on the Work

by Keith Erlandson

Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, The Working Springer Spaniel includes individual chapters on the origins of the springer; obtaining a spaniels puppy; hip and eye tests; pre-training procedures; training equipment; dogging guns and ammunition; early obedience lessons; steadiness to dummies and introduction to retrieving; introducing the gun; retrieving real game; hunting and steadiness to game; a breakdown of game scent; dropping to shot;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904057187
• ISBN13: 9781904057185
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Swan Hill Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.0"