This week's blog post is a guest post from our colleage Ă…sa, from when her working labrador Tod was a young. We went...
Heelwork
The heel work is very important for both retrievers and spaniels, even though the retriever is required to have a more exact heeling position than the spaniel. The aim is that the dog follows the handler, without the handler having to focus on the dog. We start the heel work training as soon as we can with our puppies and on this page you’ll find all our blog posts on the subject.
Heelwork webinar now available!
Would you like to improve your heelwork? Do you want to teach your dog to love walking by your side and walk to heel...
Training on your walks #FTW
My students often wonder how much and when to train. I usually share my super tip: training on your walks!...
Day 5: Beware of mistraining!
With mistraining I mean training that counteract what I actually want to teach the dog. Something that happens when I...
Day 4: Heelwork – from many perspectives
Since the heelwork consists of many parts and should work in many environments, we believe more than one way is needed...
Day 3: Get started with heelwork
I start to train heelwork as soon as I get the puppy home and continue practicing practically every day of the dog's...
Day 2: Heelwork diagnosis
Something Lena and I usually distinguish ourselves with is that we want to practice what is most important right now...
Day 1: Heelwork challenge!
Heelwork is something that a lot of people struggle with. It requires a lot of training and focus to become good....
The party of the year: Summer camp
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...
Back to basics
I claim that one can pass a novice cold game trial in Sweden through working on deliveries, steadiness and heeling...
Walk up
When we were in England at a summercamp with Dogs for life and Philippa Williams a couple of years ago we did a lot...
Seek out Your Left Side
Follow the leader – or follow the handler Heelwork is something that recurs in all field trials and working tests (and...
Follow the Left Leg
The difference between an easy marked retrieve and a difficult blind retrieve Last summer when we were in England at ...
Calm heeling
When I began to work on gun dog heeling with Totte, I had been working on his heeling for obedience for two years....
Flamingo walk
When I was in England visiting Phillippa Williams last summer (www.dogsforlife.co.uk) we got to try a slightly...
