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HOW TO MAKE A MEAT DOG 
TEACHING A DOG TO RETRIEVE, BEING PART 
OF A SERIES OF LESSONS IN DOG TRAINING 
By PIOUS JEEMS 
T HE first lfesson in teaching a dog to 
retrieve from the water is to accus¬ 
tom him to that element. Most dogs 
take to it naturally and those that are 
fearful must be handled carefully. As 
good a way as any is to cross a stream 
ten or twenty yards wide in a boat, leav¬ 
ing the dog behind you. When you reach 
the farther shore encourage him to come 
to you. If he is afraid to do so, walk 
away from the bank slowly and stop every 
few yards to call him. As soon as he 
enters the water cheer him in his passage, 
and when he reaches you meet him at the 
shore and show your approval by reward¬ 
ing him with a tid-bit. Play with him for 
a time, then cross back and again call him 
to follow. If he does so, keep your boat 
somewhat in advance of him so that he 
will have no chance to make an attempt 
to crawl into it or be frightened by a fail¬ 
ure to do so. It only requires a little pa¬ 
tience to start most dogs right. A high- 
couraged fellow, as we have said before, 
will do so out of sheer love of it, but if 
you happen to have a dog who is exces¬ 
sively timid and you cannot induce him 
to follow, lead him to the water and then 
wade in yourself. Take him firmly by the 
collar, your hand under his. throat and 
go steadily ahead, being careful not to al¬ 
low his head to get under water. Sup¬ 
port his head and body as much as neces¬ 
sary and encourage him to swim along 
with you. When you reach shallow water 
so that he can touch bottom, let him walk 
to shore alone, then play with him and 
raise his spirits. After an interval repeat 
this trip; do this several times until his 
fears have vanished. Under no circum¬ 
stances push or throw a dog into the 
water. It is one of the easiest ways to 
ruin a good dog. A refusal to enter the 
water should not be followed by punish¬ 
ment for the simple reason that it is not 
obstinacy that keeps a dog from doing 
what you want, but simply fear, and as 
soon as this is overcome he will obey your 
commands without hesitation. 
After your dog swims well, throw sticks 
for him to bring, and after he has pro¬ 
gressed far enough in his training so as 
to bring a bird readily on land you can 
then proceed to teach him to retrieve the 
bird from the water. Another very use¬ 
ful accomplishment is to teach your dog 
to dive for a wounded duck; this lesson 
is not as difficult to inculcate as it may- 
appear. The way to go about it is as fol¬ 
lows: Take a common laundry flat iron 
and pass one end of a long string through 
the handle, drop the iron into the stream 
in such a way that it will stand with the 
handle upright. Tie a dead bird to one 
end of the cord and retain the other in 
your hand. Now toss in the bird up stream 
and allow it to float down until it is a 
little below the iron. Call your dog and 
send him for the bird. As he attempts to 
seize it pull the cord so that the bird will 
go under the water a few inches. Do not 
pull it too deeply or allow it to remain 
under too long, simply for a few seconds 
so that before the dog has awakened from 
his astonishment at seeing it disappear he 
will see it on the surface again. Encour¬ 
age the dog to do this repeatedly, simply 
pulling the bird a few inches under the 
surface so that he can see it and soon he 
will not hesitate to grab it and bring it to 
you. Directly he takes hold of the bird, 
pay out the line so that when he starts to 
shore the cord will not jerk it out of his 
mouth. Have your line long enough to re¬ 
ceive the bird and again return it to its 
place in the water. Work your dog on this 
in short lessons so that he will not become 
tired, but practice him every day, grad¬ 
ually, pulling the bird deeper and deeper 
until he will dive to the bottom for it. A 
stuffed bird is better than a real one be¬ 
cause it is more buoyant and less injured 
by the water. The fact must not be lost 
sight of in teaching a dog to handle a dead 
bird that a bird soon becomes tainted, par¬ 
ticularly if much in the water and some 
dogs have such delicate sensibilities that 
they dislike extremely to pick up a bad 
odored bird and will refuse to do so. 
I N starting birds some breakers teach 
their dogs to start their birds at the 
word, and this at times is useful; as, 
for instance, should your dog cross a deep 
stream or raving and find a bird on the 
further bank, it is very provoking to see 
him stand like a rock, in spite of your or¬ 
ders to advance, until in sheer desperation 
you fire into the grass ahead of him, or 
