E-BOOK Clicker Gundog by Helen Phillips

by Helen Phillips "At least once a month I get a poignant letter from someone who wants to train his or her new hunting dog with the clicker, instead of yelling and correction. Usually their hunting partners and associates are laughing themselves silly; but surely it would be possible? Yes, of course; but for each hunter to invent a whole clicker protocol from scratch is a daunting task. Now one of Kay Laurence’s colleagues has written the essential guide to clicker training the gun dog. You’ll see that while she fully understands the field requirements for all sorts of bird dogs, and she respects the dogs’ natural abilities, she doesn’t fall into the usual trap of teaching a method for solving one problem after another. Instead she describes what’s wanted, and then gives you principles and goals and tools for getting there. Here are suggestions for teaching a major job of the bird dog, working at a distance; for teaching long-duration behaviors; for teaching the retrieve as a chain, a