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In the blog we write about the book, clicker training and our thoughts about gun dog retrieving and field trial training.
Challenging walked up training in a beech forest today. Keen did lots of great things 💪💪 we ended the day by shooting some clays - first round went very well, but let’s forget the second round 🙈🤣
After a very cold and windy July, summer is back! We celebrated that by training straight lines over fences and stone walls. Quite difficult according to Keen, but he solved it with some help.
Summer camp! Three day’s of training and fun. 🎉🙏🤩 Golden retriever “Peltor” invented a new game called “how many tugs can a goldie put into his mouth”. 😍😂🤩
Verner attended his first online training session today - he was the cheer leader while Rex was learning to hold an object 💪 Rex was a ⭐️he’ll master this in no time 👍💪💪
Learning Together
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....
An excellent game finder
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...
A Wet But Great Weekend Camp
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 things...
Swedish Championship for Spaniels with Kat
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...
Our Goal: to Hunt Together!
A while ago I ended the course “From Dummies to Warm Game” which I have been attending for the instructor Jens Palmqvist at “Line Up Gundogs” during a whole year. Lena was there during the course as well, almost every time, as a babysitter and sometimes bringing...
Training in a rigged hunting situation
When we were in England a couple of years ago, we did set up a driven shoot with dummies, which means that we rigged a hunting situation. The difference between this training and a walk up – when handlers and dogs on a line flush the game in front of the line – is...
The story of a remote-controlled dummy launcher
A few years ago, I bought a remote-controlled dummy launcher with four dummies. It is quite large and unwieldy, so I haven't used it that much and haven't had the need to use it for a long time. A couple of weeks ago, however, I realized that I could benefit...
When Just Surviving isn’t Enough Anymore
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...
Introduce Your Dog to Gunfire
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 doing...
Train your dog with the scent of game as a distraction
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...
When you should lie on the couch and eat chocolates
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...
Puppy training with Quling
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 solid...
Total Recall
Do you recognize this: https://youtu.be/TtMGIRtpVwY Would you rather recognize this? https://youtu.be/RIEN66zNvfM Recall is both fun and sometimes difficult – we also want to claim that it is vital. If our dogs are easy to recall we can give them more freedom. Our...
Play tug of war and get a better delivery to hand
Diesel If you have read this blog a couple of times or our book “Retrieving for All Occasions” it shouldn’t be a surprise that we like to teach our dogs things through play. I like to play with my dogs for several reasons. It is, of course, another form of reward that...
Hunting in bushes and thickets
No matter what kind of bird dog you have, it is smart that your dog likes to hunt in bushes and thickets. The spaniel must be able to force himself through shrubberies both with and without thorns – the game that the dog should flush is often in those places – but...
Can it be too easy?
When Tassla was a puppy I didn’t know that much about hunting with spaniels. I did a lot of obedience training at that time, but I had started to get an interest in hunting. However, I didn´t now what kind of qualifications or basic skills a hunting dog should have....
Take the first one!
If there are more than one dummy out there in a field Quling gladly picks up one, then changes his mind, and picks up another one. That’s why I have done a lot of exercises to teach him to take one and then deliver that one to me – and not take another one. The...
Husbandry: Giving the dog choice and control
Flippa suddenly got an abscess on her nose, full of pus and discharge. Our guess is that she got stuck on something and that the wound was then unfortunately badly infected. At first, with the help of a friend, I tried to get pus out of the abscess and clean it, but...
When the foundation is weak and slightly cracked
A while ago I attended an agility course with Fanny Gott with both Tassla and Quling - good and fun training in every way. Agility is really good for the collaboration between dog and handler, and a fun sport to dabble in when it is not hunting season.;) I am a...
Train one thing at a time
I continue my journey through the archives and found this training session with Tassla when she was quite young. The other day I was out in the meadow training with Tassla. I placed Tassla on her pause station, a blanket by my backpack, walked out a bit and threw...
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