Training Retrievers: The Cotton Pershall Method

by Bobby N. George

Overview

In the opinion of many, nobody was more influential or had a greater impact on retrievers — their training, handling, and breeding — than Cotton Pershall. This book was a command performance, because thousands of dog owners and trainers requested that Pershall's methods be set down for generations to follow. Through the eyes and words of professional trainer Bobby N. George, Jr. that's exactly what happened. The book includes complete techniques and training guidelines for lining, marking, obedience training, play training, handling doubles and triples easily, land and water retrieving, the forced retrieve, techniques to make your dog a more effective waterfowl retriever, and starting puppies through finishing a dog — as well as fifty years of reminiscences about dogs, trainers, waterfowl hunts, and field trials.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811739993
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2021
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.03(w) x 9.11(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

The late Bobby N. George, Jr. worked as a sports writer for several newspapers while honing his dog-training skills through afternoons in the field with the legendary trainer Cotton Pershall. He later began working with Bill Eckett's Blackwater Retrievers and, in 1991, he went on his own as a professional retriever trainer. He eventually returned to Blackwater Retrievers, and in 2004 the Blackwater dog NFC-AFC Dewey's Drake of Moon River won the National Retriever Championship.

Table of Contents

Foreword Michael McIntosh ix

Theodore W. "Cotton" Pershall: An Introduction 11

1 The Trainer: Reading and Understanding The Retriever 23

2 Puppy Training: From Infants To Juveniles 37

3 The Forced Retrieve: The Pup Grows Up 63

4 Land Retrieves: Marks And Blinds 77

5 Water Retrieves: Marks And Blinds 111

6 The Hunting Retriever 131

7 The Field Trial Retriever: Cotton's Way 145

Glossary of Terms 165

Editorial Reviews

I could spin out a catalog of [Pershall's] accomplishments from now 'til duck season, but I can just as easily boil it all down to one word: 'Legend.'

Michael McIntosh