Hunting Dogs

Advice from Pro Trainers

David Hughes, George Tracy and George's son, Mike Tracy, are three of the top pointing-dog trainers in America. They are the élite of the élite. Whether handling a premier field-trial dog to a major championship or preparing a client's dog to hunt in control and find birds, these men have formulas for successfully maximizing a dog's potential. Plainly put: They know dogs inside and out. Their training programs are, in fact, just that: programs. The development that these trainers achieve is based not on helter-skelter, inconsistent learning processes, but on programs centered on what dogs are and how dogs learn and respond.

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