IO4 TRAINING THE HUNTING DOG 



After a time the discipline will be firmly inculcated 

 and habitual. Then, whether the trainer is afoot, 

 horseback or in a wagon, the dog will reliably and 

 cheerfully follow behind when ordered to do so. 



The advantage of obedience to the command is 

 specially advantageous when two dogs are used at 

 the same time afield. The ability to keep one dog 

 at heel in a trained way while the other is working 

 is a material advantage in many ways ; it affords an 

 opportunity to rest one dog while the other is at 

 work; it is a means of quietly restraining one dog 

 when interference with the other is undesirable, as in 

 roading, drawing, pointing, etc. ; and it has a general 

 moral effect by keeping the dog in proper restraint 

 when he is not engaged in the work at hand. 



When a dog is to be worked in company with 

 other dogs, it is well to teach him to go on from heel 

 by merely speaking his name. Thus, if the two dogs 

 A and B are at heel, and the trainer wishes the for- 

 mer to begin work, he utters the name of A, looking 

 him in the eye at the same time. If B starts also, 

 which he is quite likely to do at first, he must in- 

 stantly be brought back to heel and kept there till the 

 trainer orders him out. In time each dog will learn 



