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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 👍💪💪
Focusing on results when you’re very competitive
Have you ever been to a party where there are games? You get divided into teams, it is a relay, you're doing fun things and it's all laughter and not serious. Or there's a game of croquet or something like that. Have you ever seen that person that kind of gets a bit...
Casting training for rookies
Working on directional skills and casting is so much fun! Being able to send the dog to run straight out from my side, to the left or right, or to turn and run in the opposite direction (push backs) feels awesome and fun. If you want to be able to trial with your...
The lessons from the past hunting season form the base for this season
Since I haven't been able to hunt with Tassla this season due to her injury and rehabilitation, I instead went through my training archive and found some notes that I made when I was preparing for the trial and hunting season 2017. Last season, Tassla and I only had...
A day full of spaniels and spaniel training
From time to time we invite external instructors and arrange seminars with them. Here's a story from a seminar we had a few years ago with Catharina Fahlberg. Yesterday was the first out of two seminar days on Basic training for spaniels with Catharina Fahlberg. We...
Can something simply be too easy?
When Tassla was a puppy, I didn’t know much about hunting with a spaniel. I was completely wrapped up in competitive obedience with a growing interest in hunting, but I had no idea of which qualities or foundation skills I wanted in a hunting dog. However, Tassla was...
Stopping and holding an area
I found some notes I made from a training session with Quling a while ago and thought I’d share them with you. I have gone from the first basic exercises for holding an area to the next step. Quling and I haven't worked on holding an area much but got back into...
We are clicker trainers
We started our publishing company Klickerförlaget eight years ago because we wanted to publish our own book "Retrieving for All Occacsions" in Swedish - but rather quickly the publishing house developed into something more. We want to spread knowledge about positive...
Breathe! Count to three!
This is a text addressed to myself. But I think you might recognize yourself too 😉 This text is about breathing when casting. Sounds easy? I find it terribly difficult sometimes. Maybe it's the control freak in me that loses control - I don't know. But when my dog is...
Casting is so much fun!
Besides the actual hunting with a spaniel - which when it flows is an experience that's hard to beat - I really enjoy working on casting. I think I enjoy it so much because it's possible to vary that training indefinitely. It's just one's own imagination that puts an...
Train your dog to take game
A while ago, I decided to teach Totte, almost nine years old, to retrieve game. Once, a long time ago, maybe when he was about a year old, we actually trained a little with game. One might say that he was curiously skeptical. I got my breakthrough when I used his...
“Time to prove yourself!”
Imagine that you are taking a class with your dog. Some of the participants are very experienced, others have some experience, someone is completely new to the whole thing, have just begun this training and are new owners of a retrieving breed. Some know each other...
Just laugh it off
One of the most important building blocks in our training philosophy is that we are looking for the good stuff that the dog does so that we can reward that. There's something a little magical about that, because it rubs off on everything. Suddenly you notice that...
Piece of Cake
It took almost six months before the day came when Flippa did not listen to the recall whistle, but simply ran in the other direction – towards the cat poop. I was surprised – I had become so spoiled by almost everything coming so easily with this dog. Never...
And when the weather’s still bad …
It was such great fun having you all take part in the indoor training from the seven blog posts about "Things to train when the weather is bad", that we wanted to give you some kind of bonus. 🙂 Elsa and I have decided to give a 25% discount on all our online courses...
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! Day 7: Steadiness with distractions
We have come to the last challenge! It has been great to follow your training! https://youtu.be/vLL0i0jwzzE If you have a spaniel or a retriever, you probably can't devote too much time at working on the dog showing steadiness in the sit, and for quite some time. The...
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! Day 6: Listen to what I’m saying
Since Quling joined my family, having the dog really, really pay attention to what I’m saying and not guessing on what he thinks I’m going to say, has become one of the most important things in my training. He likes making his own decisions, he ”can do it himself” and...
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! Day 5: Getting into heel position
While we’re on the subjects of targets (yesterday’s topic was platforms), let’s take a look at training with a block or a small stool. The purpose of this exercise is for the dog to like to hang out by my left side, but first and foremost to easily be able to COME TO...
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! Day 4: Platforms
Something that’s trending in the spaniel world is platform or place board training. Naturally, it had to come from the British spaniel men in order for it to become interesting for the regular spaniel trainer in Sweden 😉 … For those of us who’ve been training with...
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! Day 3: Leave it
Today is day 3 of ”7 things to work on when the weather is bad” and the topic is Leave it. People have different names for this, but what we mean is for the dog to choose to not go for something and perhaps even actively turn away from it. In a trial situation that...
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! – Day 2: Focus
Day 2 of ”7 things to work on when the weather is bad” is all about focus. I find teaching the dog to focus to be very useful. I have a cue that means look ahead and pay attention to what’s happening out in the field. My verbal cue is ”focus” - look ahead because it’s...
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