Category: Heelwork

Delivery to hand
Elsa Blomster

Back to basics

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

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Blind retrieves
Elsa Blomster

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 of 

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Heelwork
Elsa Blomster

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 also in obedience trials,

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Heelwork
Elsa Blomster

Follow the Left Leg

The difference between an easy marked retrieve and a difficult blind retrieve Last summer when we were in England at  Philippa William’s Castleman’s gun dogs

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Heelwork
Lena Gunnarsson

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. That training

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Heelwork
Elsa Blomster

Flamingo walk

When I was in England visiting Phillippa Williams last summer (www.dogsforlife.co.uk) we got to try a slightly different way of training heelwork. Simply put we

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