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Hey Pup, Fetch It Up!: The Complete Retriever Training Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Tarrant
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 222388
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0811707997
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.752
EAN: 9780811707992
ASIN: 0811707997
Publication Date: July 1993
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 Best Dog Book I have Read September 19, 2008
Wade Clarke (Minneapolis)
This is a funny, engaging book that is very easy to read. This guy has clearly spent his life working with dogs and they are his passion. Ten months ago, I bought my first dog, Zipper. He is a cross between a Chocolate Lab and a German Wire Haired Pointer. Zipper is a way better dog because of Hey Pup. This is a fantastic book that I refer to again and again. Zipper is well behaved, and can follow complex commands and at ten months he can do triple blind retrieves with ease.
Here is the deal. If you are looking for a book that gives you an outline in a concise format about first do this and then that, and then move here for the third step you will be disappointed. Go find another book and then train your dog, and then you will be disappointed.
Most of this book is written from stories from the author's vast experience training dogs. What the author is trying to do, subtly, is to teach you how to be a dog trainer, how to speak and act in a way that the dog can understand what you want. The thing is, I could have started working Zip with a to do list, and I could have spent a lot of time and failed, because I would not have understood how Zip would have learned. I would not have understood that the seven things that I was doing out of habit was sending overpowering messages to Zip that would work in contradiction to my goals. I would not have understood the feedback that my dog was giving me, and would have fouled myself up in the process.
Training a dog is an easy way to re-learn that we are all our own worst enemies. This book did a fantastic job helping me get out of my own way and helped me teach the dog in a way that he could understand and I could be successul. This book teaches you that the excercises you use to train the dog are not all that important, and it teaches you that how you do the excercises you do, and how you interact in every interaction is of utmost importance.
If you have a dog, you are always training, even if you think you are not. The 27 short daily interactions you have with your dog matter more than the one half hour training session in the evening. This book teaches you how to be a decent trainer (pack leader) rather than giving you a list of action items.
 Okay, but not great March 2, 2008
Amy Goebel Padgett (Clarkton, NC USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book when we got our first Chesapeake Bay Retriever pup, because I knew Chessies were a difficult breed and needed obediance training. Chessies are known for being stubborn.
What I was really looking for was a book with guidelines or recommendations on dog training. I knew a little bit and had some older books, but I was looking for something a bit better organized.
This book had a very engaging style and is enjoyable to read, but it's more like "memoirs of a dog trainer". It is definitely not the book to read if you are looking for a dog training manual. It's a fun book, however, if you want to read about a dog trainer's experiences.
I was troubled about my review because it really breaks down as follows:
5 stars if you want a fun, chatty book about a dog trainer's experiences
2 stars if you are looking for a dog training manual--because you have to sift through all the experiences to see what he did or didn't do as far as training is concerned.
Hope this helps others make the decision. It's not a bad book if you buy it for the right reason.
 At times entertaining... January 10, 2007
V. Quartaro (Connecticut)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While the book has a few interesting anecdotes and the author clearly loves dogs it is far from a clear and concise training manual. The constant anecdotal style and informal writing had me skipping pages to get to the techniques. My biggest issue with the book is the authors suggestion to short tie a pup and leave it alone for a few hours. This does not jive with his no harm to the dog attitude according to all the other dog training manuals out there.
Hey Pup! Fetch it Up! January 9, 2007
Jason R. Moore (Spokane, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Tarrant has a strange writing style and an even more odd philosophy on dog training. I would not recommend this book as my only resource for training a new puppy; only as alternate reading when books by Spencer and Wolters have been read.
some double talk about dogs April 17, 2002
Lawrence Broschart (Oregon)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
i did find this book useful but i'm a bit confused by the author chasitising the field trials as taking the dog out of the dog in the beginning of the book and then praising the fields trials as God sent, to show off what a retriever can really do. another point the author says "WHY IN AMERICA DO WE USE GIMMICKS AND WEIRD TOOLS..." and yet the book is like the insiders guide to the gimmicks and tricks the PRO uses to make a great retriever. i agree that there is some advice that is not very to the point (cook book style for us beginners), but most of it, is clear and easy to read. there is alot of good advice but it is not uptodate with the new click and treat training techinques. There is one thing that the author is right on target is his 4 T's. He seemed to be ahead of his time with his ideas about not treating the dog like he was a piece of meat.
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