2013 - Retrieving for All Occasions

Diesel is eager for the training to start

Calmness training

Eagerness

Lately both Elsa and I have been working on our dogs’ eagerness. You probably recognize how easily a dog one day (seemingly suddenly) is far

Lena Gunnarsson December 31, 2013

Field trials

Video from a spaniel hunt

Here’s a video that shows you what hunting over a spaniel could look like

Elsa Blomster December 24, 2013

Heelwork

Flamingo walk

When I was in England visiting Phillippa Williams last summer (www.dogsforlife.co.uk) we got to try a slightly different way of training heelwork. Simply put we

Elsa Blomster December 17, 2013

Delivery to hand

My dog switches dummies, how do I teach him not to?

A while ago I got a question about how I teach the dog not to switch one dummy for another when retrieving, and I decided

Elsa Blomster December 10, 2013

The book

Yippeee!

Today we want to celebrate that it’s been a year since the Swedish version of the book (4 000 kg or so of it 😉

Lena Gunnarsson December 6, 2013

Stop whistle

Training on your walks: stop whistle

We’ve just found a translator to help us a bit with the blog, so here’s a blog post that brings back summer memories! Oh, how

Lena Gunnarsson November 26, 2013

Blind retrieves

Illustration of a fun water exercise

We’re really very happy about all the wonderful illustrations in the book made by our friend Jenny Nyberg. We love them so much that we

Elsa Blomster September 9, 2013

The book

Help us chose the best translator!

We are currently trying to find the best and most suitable translator for our book, and it has proven to be a quite challenging task.

Elsa Blomster August 22, 2013

Recall

By popular demand: recall training

We received an e-mail asking us to write something about recall training, so here are our thoughts on recall. Recall is something where I believe

Elsa Blomster July 23, 2013

Delivery to hand

Come to me to play!

We start all our training while playing (and in the book all practical chapters start with a section of how to start all learning by

Elsa Blomster July 9, 2013

Year: 2013