August 2019 - Retrieving for All Occasions

Getting used to shots

Training a Gun-shy Dog – Part 2

In the first post on Quling’s gun-shyness, I described at first not knowing what it was he was trouble by – was it having a

Lena Gunnarsson August 29, 2019

Getting used to shots

Training a Gun-shy Dog – Part 1

A couple of times I’ve shared a few of words on Facebook regarding working with Quling’s gun-shyness. Each time, people have been in touch, asking

Lena Gunnarsson August 26, 2019

Theory

Choose your cues with care – and teach them even more carefully!

Just as it doesn’t matter which whistle you choose it doesn’t matter which other cues you choose to use with your dog. The important thing

Elsa Blomster August 19, 2019

Puppy training

Flippa’s first week

From the beginning, there was a puppy that stood out a little extra in all the videos the breeder posted in our little puppy group

Lena Gunnarsson August 12, 2019

Recall

The recall – the road to freedom

Since the quite cataclysmic Finnish debacle this winter when Quling “did” Finland by hunting and disappearing into the Finnish forests, flushing pheasant after pheasant, hunting

Lena Gunnarsson August 11, 2019

#ThrowBackThursday

I thought we would use the clicker more #ThrowBackThursday

Something we talk a lot about is that the clicker isn’t the most important thing in the clicker training philosophy #ThrowBackThursday

Elsa Blomster August 8, 2019

Marked retrieves

What are you training for?

I often hear people saying “well, that’s a mark, you shouldn’t cast your dog”. We had a discussion about it as late as this weekend

Elsa Blomster August 4, 2019

#ThrowBackThursday

To Break the Expectations #ThrowBackThursday

Todays #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about working with the dogs anticipation and breaking expectations – to do the unexpected instead!

Elsa Blomster August 1, 2019

Month: August 2019