Any given person is doing it the right way and you are wrong. Retriever trainers are like everyone else. My advice and take it for what it is worth (a nobody in the retriever world that has accomplished nothing more than teaching a pup how to sit) is to ignore these people who say the book should be thrown in the trash or "Wolter's had no clue beyond what he was told and what Tar did" and read it if you have access to it. I have a buddy of mine who used that book and that book only and he has a fine hunting dog who has a great base and could be advanced should he decide to go that route. I think the book is great but would not solely rely on it if you want more than a good ol' hunt dog. Even though I am on to a more modern training method I still refer back to information I gained when reading Waterdog. Now granted you do very little during this time but you do introduce the pup to learning and that learning is a way of life. Waterdog was the first book I read and was the information I used from 8 weeks until I started Hillmann at about 13 weeks.
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