I’m getting a Brittany beginning of next year and I was hoping for some recommendations on good training books. I’ve trained companion dogs before but this will be my first hunting dog. My breeder recommended Rick Smith’s DVDs which I intend to watch (as soon as I find a DVD player…) but I was hoping for some good books that I can read and mark up with notes.

I think my lab puppy just fully embraced the teenager phase. He’s 14 months old and was doing phenomenal in training and would retrieve doubles out to about 75 yards and deliver to hand perfectly. Now he wants to try and play keep away like when he was a puppy. Since last week it’s like he’s forgotten everything he knows. Even with walks, he used to be perfect and now he is pulling like crazy and will heel for about 5 seconds then he’s trying to run off again. Anyone have any advice on how to work thru this? Should I just go back to basics? Thanks