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Title: Books on training hunting spaniels?
Post by: GrampasGuns on December 06, 2015, 12:55:29 PM

Hi guys,

looking to get my best buddy a good read on training spaniels. He got his first bird dog this summer and id like to help him but I have two setters and dont know the first thing about training a flushing dog, or a retriever. Can anyone recommend a good book?

Thanks

Title: Re: Books on training hunting spaniels?
Post by: AWS on December 06, 2015, 08:52:04 PM

This is an excellent one, I used it to train my dogs both spaniels and pointing dogs, I even recommend it to folks training other breeds.  It has a lot of info that will transfer to pointing and retrieving dogs for the hunter.  It is a very gentle style of training but effective.

"HUP" by James Spencer

Here's a link to it at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Hup-Training-Flushing-Spaniels-American/dp/157779043X

Title: Re: Books on training hunting spaniels?
Post by: T-Bone on December 08, 2015, 08:47:36 AM

Another good one is Training Spaniels And Retrievers by Ken Roebuck; Gun Dog magazine sells it and the video. Amazon sells the book, too:

http://www.amazon.com/Gun-Dog-Training-Spaniels-Retrievers-Kenneth/dp/0811711145

Tom

Title: Re: Books on training hunting spaniels?
Post by: Blackjaw on December 08, 2015, 08:54:02 AM

The Working Springer Spaniel by Keith Erlandson is good. The Simon Tyers videos are spendy, but good

. Also, have him come out to a few training sessions with the WWESSC if he has a chance to see if training with the club might interest him.