Month: February 2019

Last day of the heelwork challenge! I hope that you feel that your heelwork has improved – at least mine has. I would like to

Initially, I talked about different parts of the heelwork – details, endurance and distractions. I often train them separately, but they must of course also

Something that often happens when walking to heel is that the dog gets a bit too excited and moves around like a bouncing ball –

Many dogs quickly build an expectation of who’s really in charge – it’s that interesting person with the gun or the dummies .All of a

I like to teach my dogs “default” behaviors, things that they should do even though I don’t say anything but the situation itself tells them

Something we talk a lot about on our courses is reward expectation and reward placement. Used properly, they are great training tools, but they can

Many dogs are happy to walk properly for a while, but then they get tired. The heelwork is something that needs to last for quite

Some dogs get very excited as soon as something happens – they walk nicely when you turn away from the distractions but get excited again

Besides being able to walk for a long time at my side when I walk straight ahead, the dog needs to be able to follow