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! Occasionally, I’ll do short training sessions indoors, train with friends for a few hours, attend a seminar or join a hunt for a full day. Although we work...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 summer camp a couple of years ago. The previous year’s camp was amazing and this camp was at least as fantastic, according to many of those whom...Gun dog work on film and in photos
We’ve now made some nice changes to the page called Gun Dog Retrieving. You can read a short description of all the different parts of a field trial as well as see films and photos of these parts. We’ve added more films where you can both SEE what hunting, blind...It’s Fun to Hold an Area
Holding an area is one of my favorite exercises – it is a great game to teach your dog whether you have ambitions to compete or not. The dog gets to use his fine nose and at the same time learn to stop from full speed and wait until you tell him to start searching or...Chaining Exercises
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...Film showing the training of holding an area
Holding an area is one of those fun skills I think that all dog owners that are the least bit interested in training their dog should train. It’s most often quite simple to train and you can increase the difficulties in many different ways – which is fun – and as a...Working in an assigned area
Diesels and my last training session gave us some good information about what to we need to work more on. The theme of the training was “working in an assigned area”. First we fired a few shots and put out two dummies per dog where the dogs could see them. We then...Featured Products
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