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Tassla, all tough and interested in birds!
I keep going through the archives and today I'll share a story of Tassla's first flush with you. It was in 2013, when she was roughly 1.5 years old. Now we have made our first real flush! Some training buddies and I went to Skåne and, under competent and experienced...
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Dare to not reward!
There are so many traps you can fall into when it comes to dog training. When it comes to clicker training, we sometimes jokingly refer to these traps as the "clicker disease ". One of those " clicker diseases " is this to reward a little too often. We want the dog to...
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Resource guarding #ThrowBackThursday
Resource guarding is very common, especially for puppies. We have to teach them that they can trust us and give up their treasures to us. If we punish them when they growl we teach them the opposite - they can't trust us. In the blog post below you can read how I...
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Water test for spaniel – first trial
I looked through the archives once again and found a blog post from 2013 on Tassla's first water test in - enjoy! 🙂 Today I have been away with Tassla and started at a water test! Two trials were on the agenda: What is called the Beginner's Water Test and Water Test...
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Mountaineering in progress
Have you ever gone mountain climbing? I have tried it a couple of times, both on indoor walls and up a (small) mountain (well, maybe more of a boulder...) It has been breathtaking. Not least because I am really scared of heights - I get dizzy from walking stairs… But...
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When the hold isn’t good enough #ThrowBackThursday
Most spaniels and retrievers love to carry objects and do it almost endlessly. However, quite a few of them actually doesn't hold the object very well. They tend to be a bit sloppy, or chew at it. That's of course something we don't want so we practice holding with a...
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Swedish Spaniel Championship 2017
Going through the archive I found a text I wrote about the Swedish Spaniel Championship 2017 and thought I would share it with you beause it was so much fun! I've been to my first National! And I promise: More will follow. It was so much fun and so festive and...
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20 hunts later
Last fall I decided to try to work a little less and hunt a little more. It made me poor but happy, haha. In just over three months I managed to squeeze in over 20 hunts ... So, in January, Tassla was in brilliant form, well-muscled and in good condition, and I was...
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Interview with Hannah Brannigan on Drinking from the Toilet
We've been quite busy lately - a while ago we talked to Hannah Brannigan on the great podcast Drinking from the Toilet again. This time we chatted away on gundog foundations compared to foundations in other sports. Enjoy! You'll find the new episode here:...
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Interview on new podcast: Hold the Line
We've just been interviewed by Jo Laurens on the newly released podcast Hold the Line - the podcast on force free gundog training! Check it out - and of course we encourage you to subscribe for the podcast so you get to listen to all the other great episodes! You can...
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The you can’t play tug with a gun dog myth #ThrowBackThursday
Not tugging with your gun dog is one of the hardest myths to kill. In the blog post below you can see how we do it - and how we teach the dog to play tug with toys and carry game with a nice, firm grip without chewing. #ThrowBackThursday...
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Heelwork webinar now available!
Would you like to improve your heelwork? Do you want to teach your dog to love walking by your side and walk to heel even with distractions? A lot of people participated in our heelwork challenge in February. We got lots of questions on how we train the dog to walk to...
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Quling goes to Flush school, part 4
Train, prevent, interrupt. It's a good motto that I like to bring into my training. I train to teach the dog what I want him to do; I prevent the dog from making mistakes or rehearsing behaviors that are counterproductive to what I want; I make sure to interrupt the...
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Reversed luring – our favorite training aid #ThrowBackThursday
A lot of people say that you can't have treats near by when the dog is retrieving because then it will just let go of the dummy. And yes, initially most dogs will do that but we want to teach them to hold even when there's treats around - then reversed luring is a...
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Quling goes to Flush school, part 3
Filled with belief in the future, self-confidence and gung ho, all ready to take the next step, I returned to Tomas at Knektagården for another visit to Flush school. It had been 2-3 weeks since our last visit. It was time to add a flushing to the hunting. Considering...
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The vital recall
Delivery to hand with a puppy #ThrowBackThursday
When we teach our dogs delivery to hand we follow a certain structure - play to take the object, reversed luring, handtarget, handtarget with object and reversed luring and finally sitting and presenting the object. Then we move back and forth between the different...
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Quling goes to Flush school, part 2
Here's the second part of when Quling went to Flush school last year. The first part can be found here. Quling has been to school again 🙂 Quite a bit of time passed between the first and second time (a month) so I thought we might have to start over from the...
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Training on your walks #FTW
My students often wonder how much and when to train. I usually share my super tip: training on your walks! Occasionally, I'll do short training sessions indoors, train with friends for a few hours, attend a seminar or join a hunt for a full day. Although we work on...
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How to use a slip lead #ThrowBackThursday
Slip leads are very convenient - collar and leash combined and they take up almost no space when you put it in your pocket. However, sometimes people misunderstand how they should use a slip lead. The blog post below on how to use a slip lead is one of our most...
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