- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: David McKay (30 Jun 1977)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679507507
- ISBN-13: 978-0679507505
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.8 x 23.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,452,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is NOT a recomendable book. It claims to be modern and have the dogs interrests in mind, yet some of the training includes electically choking the dog, pinch-collars and an occational whipping. Not the way i wish to train my dogs. I've nothing good to say....try one of Richard Wolters books instead.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'm sure this is a very worthy book but for a UK based person I found it very irritating to follow and soon lost my will to proceed. It is written as Delmar Smith (native of Oklahoma) would speak - literally!
I'm sorry, I really tried but if it is to sell to the shooting population of the UK it needs a re-write!...
I'm sorry, I really tried but if it is to sell to the shooting population of the UK it needs a re-write!...
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Bill Tarrant followed Delmar Smith around the world for years studying his dog training methods before writing this book. As the Gun Dog Editor for Field and Stream, and as a man who had interviewed every sporting dog trainer in America, Tarrant knew Smith to be the the best dog trainer alive. Tarrant was amazed at Smith's gentle and country-wise methods that worked without hitting, striking or kicking the dog, or in any other way hurting him or dampening the dog's enthusiasm. Smith's comtemporaries in the field of bird dog training were known for their common use of brute force to train dogs. Delmar Smith says of his inhumane peers, "People who've gotta use those things don't have no fertilizer in their plot. They're stunted." Tarrant goes on to say, "And that's why Delmar's the best friend a dog ever had. He's proven a humane trainer can win on a sometimes inhumane circuit. ... Delmar figures God put dogs here to work--and man! Getting them to work together is Delmar's genius."
The many reprintings of this book since it's original appearance in 1977 proves Tarrant's assessment of Smith is correct: "In every game there's a man who knows it all. And in every game there's a man who tells all he knows. How rare to find both men one and the same. We do in Delmar."
Multitudes of dog owners use this book as their "bible." Copies of the book that are old, page worn and falling apart from constant use, are often presented to Delmar for his autograph at his kennels in Edmond, Oklahoma, or in his travels around the Country.
The book is delightful, full of humor and insight into Delmar Smith, a genuine character and great lover of animals; and a man of incalculable wisdom about the natural world. A must read for all bird dog owners, and for anyone who wants to know more about a dog's natural ability to search and find, and to work at complex tasks with a human partner.
The many reprintings of this book since it's original appearance in 1977 proves Tarrant's assessment of Smith is correct: "In every game there's a man who knows it all. And in every game there's a man who tells all he knows. How rare to find both men one and the same. We do in Delmar."
Multitudes of dog owners use this book as their "bible." Copies of the book that are old, page worn and falling apart from constant use, are often presented to Delmar for his autograph at his kennels in Edmond, Oklahoma, or in his travels around the Country.
The book is delightful, full of humor and insight into Delmar Smith, a genuine character and great lover of animals; and a man of incalculable wisdom about the natural world. A must read for all bird dog owners, and for anyone who wants to know more about a dog's natural ability to search and find, and to work at complex tasks with a human partner.
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