by Lena Gunnarsson | Oct 12, 2018 | Blind retrieves, Marked retrieves, Retriever work, Spaniel work |
Once a month this spring, Elsa, Seeker, Elsa’s baby Viola and I, got into Elsa’s car and drove to Skåne to attend a class. My role was to babysit the world’s cutest baby and I also made sure to learn as much as possible by observing the participants and listening to...
by Elsa Blomster | Oct 5, 2018 | Blind retrieves |
A straight line from A to B might seem obvious to us, but it’s not at all as obvious to the dog. Particularly in hilly terrain or if there are obstacles such as fences, fallen trees or brushwood in the way. Running straight across a football field or along a path...
by Lena Gunnarsson | May 2, 2018 | Blind retrieves, Classes, Delivery to hand, Heelwork, Holding an Area, Marked retrieves, Play, Puppy training, Retriever work, Rewards, Spaniel work, Steadiness, Taking and holding |
Every year we have a gun dog summer camp which is just so much fun so we wanted to share a story from our second summer camp a couple of years ago. The previous year’s camp was amazing and this camp was at least as fantastic, according to many of those whom...
by Elsa Blomster | Apr 4, 2018 | Blind retrieves, Water training |
To train water work is both fun and challenging. Most spaniels and retrievers love water and sometimes they get too excited as soon as they approach water. Therefore, we prefer to do a lot of calm exercises instead of training marked retrieves on water, which might...
by Elsa Blomster | Mar 14, 2018 | Blind retrieves, Field trials, Heelwork, Retriever work |
When we were in England at a summercamp with Dogs for life and Philippa Williams a couple of years ago we did a lot of ”walking on a line” or rather a “walk up” because that’s what it is called. It is one way to hunt and the dogs and handlers walk on a long line a...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Mar 7, 2018 | Blind retrieves, Field trials, Holding an Area, Hunting and quartering, Marked retrieves, Retriever work, Spaniel work, Stop whistle |
We’ve now made some nice changes to the page called Gun Dog Retrieving. You can read a short description of all the different parts of a field trial as well as see films and photos of these parts. We’ve added more films where you can both SEE what hunting, blind...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Feb 21, 2018 | Blind retrieves, Classes |
When going through my notes I found some interesting ones from a seminar I attended several years ago and thought I would share it with you. We’ve had our second gathering of the foundation class for Spaniels with Catharina Fahlberg. Remind me to never ever plan to...
by Elsa Blomster | Dec 20, 2017 | Blind retrieves |
To work with independent dogs Diesel is a very independent dog, and I have to work hard to convince her that it actually pays off to listen to me when she “knows” (or think she knows…) what she should do. There are, of course, many advantages with an...
by Elsa Blomster | Feb 4, 2017 | Blind retrieves |
A couple of years ago my dog Diesel and I, as well as my friend Åsa were in England. We went by car to take part in a dog training course for Philippa Williams, Dogs for Life – I have been to one of her courses once before, it was a year earlier, but at that time it...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jan 28, 2017 | Blind retrieves, Calmness training, Holding an Area |
Quite often, I can’t stop myself from digging into details. It’s great fun, of course. But then I have to put all these details together to a chain, otherwise there is nothing. (I actually mean that I have to put several different behaviors together in a chain so that...
