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TEACHING A DOG TO POINT. 



ing. Always try to get a dead bird of some sort to work your dog on. 

 By breaking a dog to retrieve, by my system, he will always point his 

 dead bird before he retrieves it. 



When you start your dog on point work be sure and go where you 

 will find birds. Don't get excited when he points or flushes, but just 

 blow the whistle, which means to wait until you come to him; keep 

 cool and talk to him, saying "Steady'' and "Hold." Have a whistle 

 in your pocket at all times and blow it often, that the dog may get used 

 to it and understand why you blow it and what it means. If your dog 

 is fresh and unused to exercise, and is off like a shot as soon as freed, 

 hang a chain on him and he will soon settle down and behave himself. 

 Use the following words in the field: "Go hunt dead," "Go hunt him 

 up," "Move to the right," or left, ''Charge," or lie down, "Come heel," 

 walk close to you, "Heel to the wagon," "Jump in the wagon," by name, 

 and out the same way. Commence on a dog while young to work 

 him in the field, or anywhere else, and the less words and noise you 

 make in breaking him the better for both you and him. 



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