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.

To Break the Expectations #ThrowBackThursday

Todays #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about working with the dogs anticipation and breaking expectations - to do the unexpected instead! https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/to-break-the-expectations/

When there is too much of a party all the time!

Our "fika" training post from last week was very much appreciated - so we decided to write some more about it! The absolute biggest challenge in my training is to find a balance between active training and calm "just hanging out". I have, since Tassla was a puppy,...

“Fika” training

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

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 reversed luring is a...