Loving the Game: A Guide to Retriever Training in an Urban Setting (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478723912)

Arnie and Linda Erwin are nationally recognized amateur retriever trainers with over 50 years of training and field trial experience. They have successfully trained 10 Field Trial Champions, including two Double Header winners. Arnie is also an accomplished carver and artist.

What's Included:

• Strategies for training field trial, hunt test and gun dogs in an urban setting.
• Selecting a puppy and important concepts while training him through basic to advanced skill.
• Evaluating your retriever.
• Fifty years of reminiscences about dogs, trainers, and field trials.
• Tips from the Professionals and Amateurs including: creeping, vocalizing, freezing, popping and real-life training stories that explain how the experts handle unique problems.
• Judging retrievers in competition.
• Shining Stars, people dedicated to promoting the retriever sports.
• Artwork by the author.