Calmness training

Calmness training

When clicker training we want active dogs that voluntarily offers behaviors that we can reward, but we also have to spend time on calmness training so that the dog learns to relax. The calmness training is important in the gun dog training since the dog has to be quite and calm no matter what happens around it. In this category you’ll find all our blog posts about calmess training, coffee training and “on and off” training.

“Fika” training

by Lena Gunnarsson | Jun 18, 2019 | Calmness training | 2 comments

On this blog we have so far been quite good at describing the training we do technically (or at least we try to be good at it). One can almost get the impression that we train and train and like never breathe, as if we never let our dogs take it easy in the training....

Reversed luring – our favorite training aid #ThrowBackThursday

by Elsa Blomster | Apr 25, 2019 | #ThrowBackThursday, Calmness training, Steadiness | 0 comments

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...

Training multiple dogs at the same time

by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 7, 2019 | Calmness training | 2 comments

We’re often asked how we train multiple dogs at the same time – turn on your speakers and listen to the video below and Lena will tell you! Retrieving for All Occasions - Foundations for Excellence in Gun Dog TrainingShare...

Course with Helen Phillips

by Lena Gunnarsson | Mar 5, 2019 | Blind retrieves, Calmness training, Classes, Heelwork, Marked retrieves | 0 comments

Last year we had no summer camp because it didn’t fit so well with our lives then. Instead, I had longed for and focused on going to a camp myself. In July, Helen Philips from the UK came to Edsäng in Hälsingland, invited by Eva Thorén. Helen has written the...

To break the expectations

by Lena Gunnarsson | Aug 16, 2017 | Calmness training | 0 comments

In today’s blog, I would like to talk a little about the dog’s expectations in connection with gun dog training – and any other training for that matter – I think that it is a subject that we never can talk too much about or remind ourselves often enough about. If the...

Chaining Exercises

by Lena Gunnarsson | Jan 28, 2017 | Blind retrieves, Calmness training, Holding an Area | 0 comments

Quite often, I can’t stop myself from digging into details. It’s great fun, of course. But then I have to put all these details together to a chain, otherwise there is nothing. (I actually mean that I have to put several different behaviors together in a chain so that...

Reversed Luring – Our Favorite Training Aid

by Lena Gunnarsson | Jan 12, 2016 | Calmness training, Steadiness | 2 comments

Self-control through reversed luring One of the foundations of the clicker philosophy is to that the dog should learn to think by itself, especially in the learning phase. We want the dog to figure out how to do different things, solve different problems our figure...

Eagerness

by Lena Gunnarsson | Dec 31, 2013 | Calmness training | 0 comments

Lately both Elsa and I have been working on our dogs’ eagerness. You probably recognize how easily a dog one day (seemingly suddenly) is far too eager to get to a certain task. In the worst case it will become completely blocked and because of this doesn’t...