Breeding & Training Versatile Hunting Dogs - Softcover

Farris, Bob

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9781985413382: Breeding & Training Versatile Hunting Dogs

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ISBN 10: 1985413388 ISBN 13: 9781985413382

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

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Breeding & Training Versatile Hunting Dogs for Hunting and Hunt Tests is the first book covering both breeding and training of your versatile dog for upland bird hunting, waterfowling, shed hunting, blood tracking, along with numerous human interest chapters. This book starts with the most insightful and complete explanation of what a quality breeding program involves: how to breed better dogs, how to achieve genetic diversity, selecting the best stud dog, reading a pedigree including the different breeding coefficients and how to use Hunt Test information to support breeding decisions. Bob's Cedarwood Pudelpointers (clients purchasing pups) have seen nearly 400 NAVHDA natural ability test entries across North America with a 90% success rate passing this test since he began his breeding program. Also, 175 NAVHDA utility test entries had a 74% success rate. Bob gives outstanding coverage of how to train your dog for any of the Hunt Test organizations offering natural ability tests as well as their utility tests. Of the 106 dogs Bob trained/handled in NAVHDA's natural ability test he earned 81 Prize 1s and of the 49 dogs trained/handled in utility he earned 15 Prize 1s with all dogs prizing. He has paid his dues in the testing arena and his record speaks for itself. A hunter who sees 80 to 100 days annually in the field supports his knowledge to training for hunting wild birds. This book gives excellent advice on training your dog for hunting. Bob covers chukar hunting tactics, waterfowling from a blind, duck searches, tracking wounded big game and off season shed hunting. You do not want to purchase a versatile pup or plan to test your pup in any of the offered hunt tests without reading this book.

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About the Author

Every kennel in North America has a story of its beginning and the course taken through the years as to where they are today and how that journey got them there. Cedarwood Pudelpointers and Bob Farris are no exception and their story has its own interesting twists over the years. For over 30 years Bob trained all breeds of hunting dogs for clients throughout the Northwest (retrievers and pointers of all breeds). When a Pudelpointer came in for training in 1975, Bob saw the advantage of owning merely one dog for both upland and waterfowl hunting and the Pudelpointer seemed to be a better upland and waterfowl choice, this was also a favorable house dog that didn't shed. What originally began as a dog training facility for hunting dogs in the 70s, eventually was transformed into a now two-person (Bob and LaFaye Farris) puppy raising facility with limited dog training offered. Understanding genetics and a passion to own the best possible hunting dogs personally has been the driving force at Cedarwood Kennels to breed Pudelpointers.

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