Training Retrievers for the Marshes and Meadows

by James B. Spencer

Book Overview

Spencer, nationally recognized retriever trainer, trial judge and writer, covers all aspects of basic retriever training from the puppy's first lessons to the finished retriever ready for field work... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877141401
• ISBN13: 9780877141402
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Denlingers Pub Ltd
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Best I've read on training retrievers

Before, during and continuing with the training of my current yellow Lab, I have read quite a few books on the subject. I wish I would have had this one sooner! Easy to read and great instruction all in one book.

If you can only buy one retriever training book, buy this!

After 21 years training rare retrievers (The Curly Coated), I found this book to be the most helpful I've ever read. Spencer actually recognizes that there are differences not only in the retriever breeds but among individuals in those breeds. A very wonderful book full of practical, down-to-earth training methods written by an author who recognizes dog training is an art, not a science. Will someday be on the dog training classics shelf along with James Lamb Free and others.

Best on the market for the amateur trainer!

Well thought-out, well presented and very comprehensive, this is a marvellous book for the owner-trainer of any breed of retriever who has the time and patience to work with his/her dog at their own speed. I have recommended this book to all my puppy buyers ever since I read it when it first came out. I am very glad that it is soon to available in a second, enhanced edition.

Excellent instruction on do it yourself retreiver training.

I have read three books and numerous articles on do it yourself retreiver training. This book is by far the best written and easiest to understand. It gives practical instruction in layman's terms. I reference it often in the training of my Lab, Jennie, who is retrieving ducks quite well in the south Louisiana marshes.

The best single amateur retriever training book in existence

This book is the best single hunting retriever training book for the amateur trainer in existence. Unlike many other books, Spencer not only gives common sense easy to understand steps to follow, he also explains WHY steps must be followed in this manner and what pitfalls are possible if they aren't. Why is this book unavailable????