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7 things to work on when the weather is bad! – Day 2: Focus
Day 2 of ”7 things to work on when the weather is bad” is all about focus. I find teaching the dog to focus to be very useful. I have a cue that means look ahead and pay attention to what’s happening out in the field. My verbal cue is ”focus” - look ahead because it’s...
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! Day 1: Delivery to hand
Welcome to 7 days of ideas for things to train when the weather is bad. Join us and have fun training! Today’s topic is deliveries. I have two different kinds of deliveries. If we’re going for full disclosure, I actually have three since we have one for competition...
Training when the weather’s bad
The winter in Sweden tends to be quite long and very, very dark. Add some rain and wind to that (and it’s almost always windy here!) and being outdoors really isn’t pleasant at all. In order for my dogs and myself not to perish from boredom, we do mini training...
When you’re just stuck standing there…
I really don't think I ever had a particularly easy time when it comes to dog training. I'm not a super talented trainer who sees everything and reacts correctly and quickly in all - or even most - situations. I have been struggling hard to become a pretty good...
Oh my God, I’ve become a “lumper”
“Be a splitter not a lumper”. A pithy saying by Bob Bailey , so established in the world we might call the "clicker world" that we can say to one another "Oh my, I think I have become a lumper!" or "I don't want to lump behavior that way". And everyone will know what...
50 % discount on the book!
Haven't got the book Retrieving for All Occasions yet? Or are you looking for a great Christmas gift for a friend? Hurry up to buy your copy, because the book is on sale until December 31st - you'll get no less than a 50 % discount! Select your preferred shop to buy...
Wow!
A while ago, Facebook showed me a memory that made me all nostalgic. It's a photo of Tassla in the Skåne twilight with the words "SHE SAT DOWN". The photo was taken on September 19, 2013, and Tassla was a year old. It was the first time she got to flush a bird. I had...
Which online course suits you?
We get a lot of questions about our online courses - how do they work, what will you learn, isn't very difficult to attend an online course and so on - so we'll try to answer a few of those questions. No, in our experience it's not very difficult at all 🙂 All you...
Training a Gun-shy Dog – Part 4
As I wrote in my previous post, I had to start by letting the launcher appear so that he could get used to it. I simply tried to turn his anticipation of it to something positive. This took a few weeks. I walked around, waving that launcher around all the time,...
A nose, a knee, an ear and a stomach
I’m sitting at the kitchen table and dare not move – the puppy is sleeping heavily in my lap. Sometimes a little pitiful chuckle comes from her but mostly she is still. Just hours ago, she was lying on the operating table to get a stubborn little wound on her nose...
Training a Gun-shy Dog – Part 3
After the setback where Quling got terrified of the gunfire at a hunt (covered in a previous post), we began further back in the training process and quite quickly built us up to where we had been before the incident. So, I figured I'd begin shooting for him myself....
Interview in the podcast How do you train that?
A couple of weeks ago Lena and I were interviewed in the podcast How do you train that, and now the podcast has been published. Enjoy! http://www.howdoyoutrainthat.com/podcast/fetching-and-retrieving/
Your whistle seems great – can I have it?
I've received that question a couple of times when my dogs have sat down really promptly at the stop whistle or responded with lightening speed to the recall whistle. If it had been as simple as selling magic whistles, I'd become rich 😉 , but as we all know,...
The first month with my puppy – what have we done?
The first month with Flippa has, of course, mostly been about bonding, cozying up, getting to know each other and finding good routines for everyday life. I have also carefully studied her to understand who she is and how she works – it is, after all, a very fun time...
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 group of people nearby (which has always been an issue for him) or was it the gunfire? When I felt that I knew for sure that it was indeed the...
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 me to tell them more. So, I'm going to share my thoughts on this training and how I have gone about it in four blog...
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 is that you teach the dog exactly what each cue means. For example, some people want to use the dog's name as a cue for...
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 on Facebook. It was the brown with white paws.It was first to walk, first to get outside the puppy pen, first to find the stairs and...
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 like a maniac for 15 minutes completely out of my control, I've mostly worked on our...
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 https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/thought-use-clicker/
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