CHAPTER VIII 



DOG TKAINING 

 FUNDAMENTALS 



The foundation of all dog training is obedience. 

 Hunting is in no sense play, but work, for the 

 dog. He may like it, as the soldier does cam- 

 paigning, but the essential foundations of disci- 

 pline and obedience are there just the same. 



To this end all dog training, from the simplest 

 order to the most complicated manoeuvre, has for 

 its basis command and enforced obedience. The 

 best instrument for this is not the strap, but the 

 force collar. This is a collar with a tongueless 

 buckle, armed inside with blunt spikes, which, 

 while in no way injuring the dog's skin or coat, 

 have the power to punish him when the cord at- 

 tached to the end of the collar is pulled. A plain 

 collar is ineffective, for, while it restrains the 

 dog, it does not punish him. A strap is impractical 

 for it frightens the dog to be whipped and he is 

 not likely to understand what he is being whipped 

 for. 



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