Hey Pup, Fetch It Up!: The Complete Retriever Training Book (Hardcover)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Dog Book I have Read
This is a funny, engaging book that is very easy to read. This guy has clearly spent his life working with dogs and they are his passion.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Okay, but not great
I bought this book when we got our first Chesapeake Bay Retriever pup, because I knew Chessies were a difficult breed and needed obediance training.
The book is hardcover, good binding, average quality paper, standard font size but the good layout making for easy reading. A substantial book, with 500 pages.
First published in 1979, Bill Tarrant was well ahead of his time; he’s been using praise & reward training methods long before the expression “operant” became vogue.
Primarily directed to training retrievers, Tarrant’s method & style is so honest - almost anyone wishing to train any breed will find the book useful and enlightening … If there is one consistent message that comes through Tarrant’s book, it is - NEVER HURT THE DOG!
Perhaps what makes this different from many others - is it becomes patently obvious even after a few pages that Tarrant is not teaching anything he has not tested & tried, he is himself unafraid watch, learn and try different methods.
Consisting of 20 chapters, the author takes the reader from how to choose a pup to training the first fetch, from how to transport a dog to emergency first aid, from housetraining a puppy to teaching the dog to force fetch. When & how to introduce a dog to water? … How to train for a soft mouth? … Gun-shyness, what to do? … Tarrant deals with all and more …
The book lays out training methods & schedules and offers potential solutions to difficulties & problems that may be encountered. Tarrant has developed his own training methods and procedure - some of which are rather novel. For example, he advocates using puppies to teach each other the beginnings of how to `stay’ and to give to the lead.
Each topic is explained in-depth; each stage of training dealt with in detail.
Written with wonderful humour, the book is filled with anecdotes and stories collected from a lifetime of training & living with dogs, the book is both entertaining and educational. More than just a training manual, the book teaches us how to better appreciate our dogs, respect the individual spirit within each animal and have better understanding of our canine friend.
A wonderful read.
3.0 out of 5 stars
At times entertaining…
While the book has a few interesting anecdotes and the author clearly loves dogs it is far from a clear and concise training manual.
Bill’s technique of no force shed a new light to my ideas on how dogs should be trained. I was on my way to training my newest retriever just liked I’d trained many dogs before. Bill’s book shed a new light on things. I tried it and it works! I recommend to anyone, give it a try before you knock his technique!
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Hey Pup! Fetch it Up!
Tarrant has a strange writing style and an even more odd philosophy on dog training. I would not recommend this book as my only resource for training a new puppy; only as…
3.0 out of 5 stars
some double talk about dogs
i did find this book useful but i’m a bit confused by the author chasitising the field trials as taking the dog out of the dog in the beginning of the book and then praising the…
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is Bill Tarrant’s best work yet!
Has an excellent approach to force retrieving, that wont hurt your dog. Introducing pups to all the basics that a good gun dog must know.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent primer for the beginner.
I found this book to be very helpful in understanding my pups and how they saw me.I feel this book saved my pups and myself alot of grief and misery.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very touchy feely approach to training.
I am an amateur at dog training. This book has a lot of personal stories that vaguely relate to training.