Retriever Pups: The Formative First Year

Voyageur Press, 2006. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Some edgewear to dustjacket. 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. Twice named Dog Writer of the Year by the Dog Writers Association of America, Tarrant also was known for his outdoors and hunting articles in magazines like "Field and Stream," for which he has been gun dog editor since 1973. Tarrant won 23 national outdoor and dog writing awards and was once invited by the British monarchy to write a story about the royal kennel.