Year: 2019

Reading through all entries in the contest was a real joy! Here are a few of your thoughts: Biggest challenge is to keep it fun

The heelwork challenge that we’ve had the last couple of weeks has been so much fun! We’ve really enjoyed following all of you in your

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