THE WORKING SPRINGER SPANIEL.

Notes:
Practical and useful account of training, working, breeding and trialling distilled from forty years' experience. "Includes individual chapters on the origins of the springer, obtaining a spaniel puppy, hip and eye tests, pre-training procedures, training equipment, dogging guns and ammunition, early obedience lessons, steadiness to dummies and introdution to retrieving, introducing the gun, retrieving real game, hunting and steadiness to scent, dropping to shot, blind retrieves, jumping, water work, walking to heel, 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. Essential reading for anyone who owns or is thinking of owning a working springer or cocker spaniel".