by Lena Gunnarsson | Nov 20, 2020 | Classes, Stop whistle |
Sometimes it’s almost magical to see how your dog stops dead in its tracks out there in a field and then turns around to face you to get more information. Wow! She heard my signal, even though she was running like crazy out there in a field filled with game and...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jun 29, 2020 | Classes |
Since last summer I have spent three weekends in Denmark and held a course for instructors who want to learn more so that they can have courses based on the book “Retrieving for All Occasions”. These weekends have been great fun and I have also learnt a lot myself....
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jun 22, 2020 | Hunting and quartering, Spaniel work, Steadiness |
Tassla is becoming an increasingly more experienced hunting dog, and therefore I am able to take it more and more easy as a dog handler when we’re hunting. It has been exciting to see her development from an inexperienced and a little overwhelmed dog in hunting...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jun 15, 2020 | Classes |
A fond memory just showed up in our feed – our summer camp in 2017! After a long and very intense weekend at the beautiful place Sjöön in the south of Sweden we almost have a post-summer camp depression. Those days required a lot of planning and we had a lot of...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jun 8, 2020 | Spaniel work |
One of the highlights a couple of years ago the Swedish championship! I got the opportunity to start with the dog Kat again, and I am very grateful and happy about that! I get lots of experiences about competing thanks to Kat and I learn new things every time I start...
by Lena Gunnarsson | May 18, 2020 | Spaniel work |
The first year when I started to participate field trials, I was happy if I managed to stay there for more than ten minutes and that I survived the day.? There were so many things to think about. My dog was inexperienced and not completely sure about all the...
by Lena Gunnarsson | May 11, 2020 | Getting used to shots |
I found some training notes on how I started to introduce Quling to gunfire a couple of years ago and thought I’d share them with you. I wanted to do it earlier – much earlier – but he has been a bit sick and I noticed that he felt low, so I didn’t want to start...
by Lena Gunnarsson | May 4, 2020 | General |
A while ago I was in Finland a week with my dogs Quling and Tassla and visited Tassla’s breeder Anne. We hunted, ate good food, spent time together, and we also trained our dogs, of course. About fifty yards away from the house Anne has a huge rabbit enclosure. When I...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 27, 2020 | General |
Last year, I went on a hare hunt with a friend on an estate, where the grounds were filled with pheasants. So, we take our dogs and our shotguns, and, in a happy mood, we walk right into the fields. I am full of expectation, even more than usual, because I am there...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 20, 2020 | Puppy training |
I found some lovely training videos of when Quling was a puppy so I today I’ll share them with you. I love to spend time thinking about what kind of ground training my puppy needs so that we in the future can do the activities I want us to do. To give the dog a...