Product Description

A wonderful opportunity for any gundog owner to learn how to positively train, using natural instincts in conjunction with a working partnership. Details of teaching and refining the hunting skills, the search and locate techniques, soundness on point and flush. Solid retrieves and redirection. The key to success in all these areas is high level control that exceeds the stimuli of a working field. This is achieved by careful planning and avoiding any negative experience. Not only is this technique suitable for field dogs, but any dogs working in an environment where stimulus control - cues, MUST exceed the natural desire to follow instinctive behaviours.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5932927 in Books
• Published on: 2006
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 162 pages

Customer Reviews

Not bad, but is from a British perspective
While not a bad book for clicker trainers, one of the main things to know before you purchase is that this book is written by a Brit for an English style of hunting. There is much talk throughout about organized hunts where there are different lines of dogs and hunters responsible for different parts of the hunt. Each line has duty such as finding birds and flushing, forward lines to drive the birds towards and then retrieving lines that pick up the birds after they've been shot. Different from a hunt in the US where one dog (or a small group) handle all of those duties in a given hunt. Also, for owners of pointers (and the author owns and trains Vizslas), there also isn't much regarding whoa training.
That being said, there is still a lot of useful information in this book, and I'm sure you could train your dog to be a proficient hunting dog using this as a training aid. Aimed at clicker trainers (obviously), it is a "Level 3" book, meaning that there are also level 1 and 2 books that are referenced within. I believe these refer to books written by Kay Laurence, also of the UK. Training may be training, but be aware of the author's perspective before you purchase this book. I haven't read it yet, but there is a recent release by an American author that teaches hunt training for dogs using clicker training called "Positive Gun Dogs: Clicker Training for Sporting Breeds" that may be from a better perspective and more relatable for us Americans.
My reason for 3 stars is the lack of American hunting perspective (and thus some additional work is necessary to see how some of this applies to you), the fact that it references other books for some of its training exercises and finally the cost. I think that $30+ is on the high side for a dog training book that isn't self sufficient.

Clicker Gundog
The book is an easy read and easy to understand how to train a field working gundog.