Smartwork Volume 1 by Evan Graham features detailed, easy to follow instructions for retriever training, ranging from puppies through basics and early-to-mid transition. Illustrated by the author, this unique training text is designed for your use: It is spiral bound so you can leave it open to the section or diagram you are working on without breaking down the binding. Laminated covers help to protect it from the elements. There are “Notes” pages with each diagram to help you track your dogs progress. Also included is a comprehensive Glossary of Terms to help you to get acquainted with the language of dog training.

The follow up to Evan Graham’s Smartwork Volume I.

Finish your retriever the ways the pros do it. SmartWork Volume II: Secrets of the Pros covers late transition through advanced, helping you transform your “basically trained dog” into a “fully trained dog.” It also includes tips on maintaining your dog’s performance over his lifetime, field applications to help your dog relate his training to real life hunting situations, hunt tests, field trial preparation, plus troubleshooting the fully trained retriever. Everything you always wanted to know about dog training, but were afraid to ask!

Both written and illustrated by Evan Graham, Smartworks Vol. II is designed to be easy to use: It is spiral bound so you can lay it open flat to the page or diagram you are working on without breaking the binding, and the laminated covers help to protect it from the elements.

Evan Graham’s groundbreaking book SmartFetch examines the history of force fetching dogs, its goals and purposes, while laying a solid foundation for a fully trained dog. All obedience issues associated with it are fully explained, plus all phases of the program, from the teaching of “hold” all the way to Water Force. No book has ever been so complete in its discussion about, and instruction for, doing it yourself.

Several years in the planning, Retrievers From The Inside, Out is the product of Butch Goodwin’s nearly three decades of retriever training and breeding experience. The result is a complete, all-breed retriever course explaining the breeding, selection, care and training of multi-purpose hunting retrievers.

There has never been a resource that is as thorough nor as innovative as Retrievers From The Inside, Out.of life for Jackie. Her Topbrass Kennel, established in 1968, consistently produces high quality performance labrador and golden retrievers.

Finished Dog is designed to produce a finished retriever for waterfowl hunting, upland hunting, field trial or hunt testing. This book is full of dog training tips and is loaded with diagrams and photos detailing how to develop and train your retriever. Charles Jurney teaches how to use an e-collar the correct way, but he also understands that this method is not for everyone. He covers both e-collar and non-collar training in this book.