Retriever Pups: The Formative First Year (Master Training Series) [Hardcover]

Bill Tarrant (Author)

Book Description

Series: Master Training Series | Publication Date: September 1999

If you’re looking to develop a top-flight retriever, look no further than "Retriever Pups: The Formative First Year." In the conversational, intelligent writing style he was known for, "Field & Stream" gun dog columnist Bill Tarrant covers everything you need to know to train your pup during the critical first year, including a dogs pack instinct and how you can use that "need to bond" to your advantage in training. You’ll also learn the how-tos of: * choosing a puppy * introducing the pup to your home * "tinkling and dumping" * whistle training, hand signals, fetching, check cords, and much more.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 223 pages
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN) (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089658383X
• ISBN-13: 978-0896583832
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,479,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST for a Happy Pup and Owner, December 27, 1999

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Bill & Cleo F. Watson, Gator Point Kennels (Tylertown, MS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retriever Pups: The Formative First Year (Master Training Series) (Hardcover)

This book covers very important information for the early teaching and training of the new pup and its new owner. It will build a relation with the pup that will accept training for the rest of its life. I wish that every one getting a new pup could have a copy of this book.

Mr. Tarrant had a special relation with dogs, his humane teaching and training makes any of his books a must for the serious retriever owner.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE BUYERS, August 3, 2001

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Eva Muzo (Hollywood Hills, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retriever Pups: The Formative First Year (Master Training Series) (Hardcover)

Beware Lab owners or soon to be owners. If you are looking for the standard or even detailed book on training your Lab puppy, this is not the place to start. Although very creatively written and full of information (it seems), this book is not intended for the home domesticated pet you wish to train, but rather for the all outdoor hunting gun dog puppy you hope to train. This is fine and I'm sure por the purpose of making you Lab a wilderness soldier it leads you in the right direction, but had that been stated clearyly in the book discription I would of skipped it and saved myself the trouble of dissapointment and of returning a product. Precisely because I am looking for books on how to train my puppy who will live in a suburban town with a big yard, but not in middle America on a farm. So for my purposes of buying the book I feel I was misinformed so I gave it a 2 and had no interest in even reading beyond the first five pages, but if what you're looking for is "The Formative First Years (in hunting/gun dogs)" than you are in the right place. Good or bad? I guess you can give it a read and see if your puppy adapts, at least you'll be buying what you're looking for.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Here is what I think, June 26, 2000

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"bjeffress" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retriever Pups: The Formative First Year (Master Training Series) (Hardcover)

I am getting my new lab in a couple of weeks and I am new to this breed and retrieving. I was looking for a book to tell me detailed instructions on Lab training and retrieving. This book has a lot of information and is enjoyable to read. I read it in one day. I would have liked to of had more detailed successful step by step instruction, but I found that the author knows so much that he forgets that the new guy (me) doesn't and therefore he assumes to much. Eventhough it has a lot of information and great tricks I don't feel that I have enough information so that I could train a dog to retreive.