Water Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method

by Richard Wolters, Art Smith (Introduction)

The classic bestselling dog training book for the person with limited time who wants to train a working retriever fast.

Containing revolutionary scientific information on the mental development of your pet, Water Dog is a step by step training book with no extraneous material. It covers everything from the day you get your puppy to the finished dog, showing you the complete training procedures step by step in picture sequence.

It will show you not only what to expect of your dog but what your dog can expect of you. Full of information about using the right commands and utilizing the Dummy-Launch, a training device co-developed by the author, this how-to guide will make training easy, fast, and fun—for you and your dog.

“Anyone who wants to try turning his dog into a well-mannered retriever will do well with  Water Dog .”— The New York Times

Genres: Dogs, Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 24, 1964

Reviews

[Kyle Sherek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Making Tex a good boy step by step

[Kaitlyn Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

My boyfriend swears by this book, so I've given it 5 stars. He recommended I read it since we have a new puppy coming in a few weeks. He's used this book before while training labs as hunting dogs with great success. The book seems to me like it's an awesome guide to training. The language is clear and the technique seems like it will be a breeze to train the new dog. I will probably read this at least once more before we start training. I can't wait to try it out myself!

[Sam H · Rating 2 out of 5]

The novel Water Dog by Richard A. Wolters is a pretty good duck dog training book, in my opinion. I think this because, for me, it was a little hard to follow. I think this because I jumps around from one topic to another very quickly and not in orderly fashion. It also uses the non traditional duck dog training method making it hard to read while reading traditional gun dog books. It also uses very untraditional commands making the dog not as sensitive to these commands.

[Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book on training a retriever I have ever read. My copy was my grandfather's, which was give to my dad, then given to me when I got my first retriever. Many a great duck dog were trained with this book.

[Garrett Tucker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple book on how to train hunting dogs. Hope to use this knowledge someday.

[Kristie (fabk) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was really interesting, I am hoping to use many of the components for training our dog to be a water dog.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good information to have in the ole memory bank if you work with retrievers.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of information in Labs and how to train them

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very popular book in its time showing owners of water retrievers how to train their own dog for sport.