In the Bag! EPUB

In the Bag! offers a fresh approach to gundog training for beginners and seasoned trainers alike.

It contains sound advice on the selection of your Labrador Retriever and valuable information regarding his care and management from puppy to veteran.

It gives step-by-step guidance on his training and how to make smooth progress towards the finished article: a Labrador that is a pleasure in the home as well as in the field, and a reliable shooting companion who puts game in the bag.

Margaret Allen has been successfully training, trialling, breeding and showing Labradors since 1964.

Trying to understand the workings of the canine mind has always held a fascination for Margaret and she believes that in order to train your dog successfully, you should make it your chief objective to find out what makes him tick.

In this book, you will learn how your dog thinks, reacts and learns.

Armed with this knowledge, training should proceed with a minimum of setbacks.

Our working Labrador has been bred for generations to retrieve game - it is in his blood.

Through selective breeding, dogs have been produced which are kindly and willing to please.

It should not, therefore, be hard work to make him into a Gundog.

It should be fun! This book will help you make it so. A fresh approach to gundog training for beginners and seasoned trainers alike, which explains how to train your Labrador so that he is a pleasure to work with and an asset in the field.

Contains sound advice on the selection of your Labrador and valuable information on care and management from puppy to veteran.

Fully illustrated with 90 colour photographs. Margaret Allen has been successfully training, trialling, breeding and showing Labradors since 1964 and her dogs have been featured in various shooting magazines.