The Working Springer Spaniel

by KeithErlandson (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.31

  Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs, The Working Springer Spaniel includes individual chapters on the origins of the springer; obtaining a spaniels puppy; hip and eye tests; pre-training procedures; training equipment; dogging guns and ammunition; early obedience lessons; steadiness to dummies and introduction to retrieving; introducing the gun; retrieving real game; hunting and steadiness to game; a breakdown of game scent; dropping to shot; blind retrieves; jumping; water work; walking to heal; artificial lines; punishment; soft and hard mouths; the principles and practicalities of breeding; field trials in Britain, USA, Canada, and Europe; the working cocker; woodcock and cocking spaniels. The book is essential reading for anyone who owns or is thinking of owning a working springer or cocker spaniel.^

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $4.27

  Based on the author's knowledge gained from nearly 40 years' experience with both breeds, this is a guide to choosing, training, breeding and trialing a working springer spaniel or cocker spaniel. Keith Erlandson is the author of Gundog Training.