Ludde has crossed the rainbow bridge
In mid May, we had to make the most difficult decision a dog owner have to take – to let go of your beloved dog.
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Last day in Canada, today we worked on the stop whistle and casting and dogs and handlers were progressing really well 😍 Now I’m at the airport on my way back home, but I hope I’ll be able to come back and stay for longer because I’ve had a great time. …
Another great training day in Canada. New set of dogs and handlers today, working on delivery to hand, taking and holding as well as steadiness and heelwork. Looking forward to meeting them again tomorrow and start working with the stop whistle and casting. …
Enjoying some great training days and weather in Nova Scotia, Canada. Today I had the pleasure of instructing 5 pointers and a standard poodle (who I unfortunately didn’t get a picture of). We cover taking and holding, delivery to hand and steadiness. Tomorrow a new group is coming in, looking forward to that 🙂 …
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In mid May, we had to make the most difficult decision a dog owner have to take – to let go of your beloved dog.
I’m convinced that introducing the dog to game already during puppyhood is for the very best if you want a dog that feels that handling
A while ago I had a project with Tassla. The goal wass to improve her hold. She’s always had a leaning towards a somewhat loose
I made my debut in the Winner’s class for Spaniels the other day. With me was my teacher, the Cocker Spaniel Kat. She’s my bonus
I wanted to share the story of Tassla’s first trial of last season with you, so here goes 🙂 Tassla is in Novice, which is
What a day! I’m emotionally drained. That handling a Spaniel can be this exhausting! But today, Tassla and I had our best trial so far!
Every year we have a gun dog summer camp which is just so much fun so we wanted to share a story from our second
When we had made some progress in writing the book (Retrieving for All Occasions), we played around with creating a summary under the caption ”The
I claim that one can pass a novice cold game trial in Sweden through working on deliveries, steadiness and heeling (providing, naturally, that the dog
Both Elsa and I train our puppies from the moment they move in with us. Since the puppy is like a clean slate, we want
To train water work is both fun and challenging. Most spaniels and retrievers love water and sometimes they get too excited as soon as they
To stop at a distance – why is that sometimes so difficult? We often have students who think it is a huge challenge to get
Lisa Winbo is the latest addition to Klickerförlagets group of instructors. Lisa has been thinking about dogs rewarding themselves for behaviors we really don’t want
When we were in England at a summercamp with Dogs for life and Philippa Williams a couple of years ago we did a lot of
We’ve now made some nice changes to the page called Gun Dog Retrieving. You can read a short description of all the different parts of a
The switching game is one of our favorite games. We use it to train everything from taking and holding to the full retrieve. Sometimes it
When going through my notes I found some interesting ones from a seminar I attended several years ago and thought I would share it with
A great many things worked well at the last trial, but unfortunately I think that all the self-control that the heeling required made it too
When Quling w as five months old, he discovered the meaning of life. Over night, this very energetic and pretty wild puppy that I still walked
Let me just give you a great piece of advice for your training: Reversed luring. I don’t know how people train without it, I really