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When sports collide
Sometimes I get the question if I am not worried that my different dog sports are going to collide with each other. Am I not running the risk of confusing my dog; won't it mix up what to do? Tassla and I did done a lot of competitive obedience younger. For a long time...
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Summertime and water work – part 1
This summer, I have a small number of private students who are coming to train with me because they want help with water training, specifically deliveries by water, and I'm going to share to of those training sessions with you. The first one is with Allwin the toller,...
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Do as I Say (casting) #ThrowBackThursday
Today's #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about getting the dog to do as I say - and not anticipate what I'm going to say. https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/do-as-i-say-casting/
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The stop whistle with Tod
This week's blog post is a guest post from our colleage Åsa, from when her working labrador Tod was a young. Here is the continuation of my description of last week’s training session - working on the stop whistle. After having worked on heeling, Tod got to get in the...
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The Great Delivery Challenge #ThrowBackThursday
By far the most common thing that we work on with our students is delivery to hand. A lot of dogs like to pick things up, but bringing them back is naturally not as fun. Today's #ThrowBackThursday blog post is an interview with Elsa on how she trained delivery to hand...
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Gun dog heeling with Tod
This week's blog post is a guest post from our colleage Åsa, from when her working labrador Tod was a young. We went to a completely new place this morning and had planned "fika” training (sitting down, having a snack, teaching the dog to settle), work on the stop...
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To Train Gun Shyness Part Two: Diesel #ThrowBackThursday
Today's #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about training gun shyness. Enjoy! https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/train-gun-shyness-part-two-diesel/ Diesel vntar p bollen
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Training on your Walks – Hunting #ThrowBackThursday
Today's #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about training on your walks. Enjoy! https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/training-walks-hunting/
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When there is too much of a party all the time!
Our "fika" training post from last week was very much appreciated - so we decided to write some more about it! The absolute biggest challenge in my training is to find a balance between active training and calm "just hanging out". I have, since Tassla was a puppy,...
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Self-control – how much does it cost?
A few years ago, Jenny Nyberg, a neuroscientist at the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Gothenburg, wrote a very interesting article about what self-control costs. It was published by DogEductus, a Swedish dog training company focusing on...
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What’s the Name of this Dog? – Sit! #ThrowBackThursday
Today's #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about steadiness and teaching the dog to sit while you're greeting someone. Enjoy! https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/whats-name-dog-sit/
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“Fika” training
On this blog we have so far been quite good at describing the training we do technically (or at least we try to be good at it). One can almost get the impression that we train and train and like never breathe, as if we never let our dogs take it easy in the training....
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Working with Game #ThrowBackThursday
Today's #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about working with game and getting your dog used to game. Enjoy! https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/working-with-game/
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Advice on how to set up practice trials
Every now and then a group of us put together a practice trial and it is so incredibly successful every time! In obedience, practice trials are really common. You get to try out the competition environment, having a steward telling you what to do and you get to...
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Illustration of a Fun Water Exercise #ThrowBackThursday
One of the great things with summer is swimming - and all the fun training you can do with your dog in water. #ThrowBackThursday https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/illustration-fun-water-exercise/
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Creative distraction training
Simply put, we can say that we make our training more difficult in three ways: By increasing distance or duration and by adding distractions. However, never at the same time. Working with distractions is a way to proof what we've trained the dog to do. If we get...
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On the podium at a working test!
On Good Friday, Lena and I went to another working test (WT). This time we didn't need to travel so far - only to Susegården between Falkenberg and Halmstad where SSRK West Halland section arranged a working test. We were lucky, the dog after me didn't start, so Lena...
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By popular demand: recall training #ThrowBackThursday
One of the most important things to teach your dog is the recall. The better the recall the more freedom the dog can get. Here's one of our previous blog posts on how we teach the dog the recall cue (and whistle) #ThrowBackThursday...
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The trial where anything can happen: Open class for spaniels
You'll probably know it by know - I found more great stuff in the archives 🙂 This story is from 2017 when I was a game carrier at a spaniel field trial. We've been to our first open class trial for spaniels. But we were on the standby list and never got to start......
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The art of rewarding with a rabbit enclosure
Do you sometimes feel that your rewards fall way short compared to that fun distraction that your dog would much rather interact with? I think that one of the great things about clicker training is that we can use the environment as the reward when suitable. Last...
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