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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.
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"Stop!!" - useful training advice for both gun dogs and pet dogs. Check out our new online courses on stop whistle and heelwork! www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/classes - Early bird prices for the first 15 who register <3
Tough day for the youngest dog trainer today - first supervising a private lesson and then watching Keen's training. The private lesson was the most fun to watch - Laban did good and difficult things 👍💪 Keen also did good things but then the mini-coach had fallen asleep 🤣
Keen was very focused on today’s water training and did a great job despite the cold water. we’re slowly building more trust on those water blinds 💪👍
Advent calendar day 4: Win the online puppy course “Hello, who is this then?”
In our advent calendar you'll be able to win private online sessions with Elsa Blomster or Lena Gunnarsson, our book "Retrieving for All Occasions" (printed and e-book), our study guides or one of our many online courses (without feedback)! There will be a new gift...
Advent calendar day 3: Win the online course “Gun Dog Foundations”
In our advent calendar you'll be able to win private online sessions with Elsa Blomster or Lena Gunnarsson, our book "Retrieving for All Occasions" (printed and e-book), our study guides or one of our many online courses (without feedback)! There will be a new gift...
Free webinar on engagement and handling disengagement – December 9th 8 pm CET
We're doing a short live session on December 9th at 8pm CET where Elsa will give a lecture and then answer questions on engagement and handling disengagement in your training! The webinar will be approximately 30 minutes, including questions. Feel free to ask...
Advent calendar day 2: Win the book Retrieving for All Occasions
In our advent calendar you'll be able to win private online sessions with Elsa Blomster or Lena Gunnarsson, our book "Retrieving for All Occasions" (printed and e-book), our study guides or one of our many online courses (without feedback)! There will be a new gift...
Advent calendar day 1: Win the online course “Stop whistle”
In our advent calendar you'll be able to win private online sessions with Elsa Blomster or Lena Gunnarsson, our book "Retrieving for All Occasions" (printed and e-book), our study guides or one of our many online courses (without feedback)! There will be a new gift...
New online courses – advanced casting and holding an area!
In these strange times we've switched a lot of our focus to offering more online courses and we're now happy to present two more - advanced casting and holding an area! As usual you can choose between courses with or without personal feedback. Enjoy! Early bird...
Advent calendar
To light up the dark and cold December (at least here in Sweden 😉 ) we're going to have an Advent calendar! We're doing it Swedish style since we celebrate Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day, so every day from December 1st until December 24th there will be a new...
Do you want your dog to follow you?
Something we get a lot of questions about and spend a lot of time training ourselves is heelwork. When we're out walking or when we're hunting we want our dogs to be able to walk by our side without us having to watch them all the time - we need to be able to focus on...
“Stop!!!”
Sometimes it's almost magical to see how your dog stops dead in its tracks out there in a field and then turns around to face you to get more information. Wow! She heard my signal, even though she was running like crazy out there in a field filled with game and on her...
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...
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