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Title: Modern breaking; a treatise on the rearing, breaking and handling of setters and pointers, embodying the methods employed by the most successful breakers and field trial handlers of the day ..
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bruette, William A
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Blakely Printing Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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S at hand. Thebreaker must understand that the dogs earmust never be pulled or jerked. It shouldsimply be pinched hard enough to cause the dogto good-naturedly open his mouth and hold auobject placed there. In teaching a dog to retrieve, it is alwaysbest to have a dog well along in his training,so as to avoid any danger of cowing him, butin this as in all things, the dogs dispositionmust be studied. A good plan to follow in
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OPENING HIS MOUTH Modern Breaking 117 breaking some dogs to retrieve is a combina-tion of both the force and natural systems. If youhave a bright, courageous puppy about thekennel, which is always nosing about and pick-ing up things, he can be taught to hold andcarry small objects about the kennel, but noattempt should be made to force him to retrieveuntil well along in his field work. The first les-son is the most important one and the breakermust use extreme care in the very beginningnot to frighten the dog and cause it to becomecowed or sulky. There are six things to teach a dog sepa-rately: First, to hold an object after it isplaced in the mouth; second, to open the mouthso that the object may be placed there; third,to take it from the hand; fourth, to pick itup from the floor; fifth, to go a distance for it;sixth, to fetch it back. Each of these pointsmust be forced separately. An object might be thrown upon the floorand no amount of punishment would induce thedog to pick it up.

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