Puppy training
Dogs learn all the time and from day one when we get our puppy we make sure that it learns what we want it to. Puppy training is so much fun and with clicker training we can start training the puppy right from the start. In this category you’ll find all our blog posts on puppy training.
Seeker is now seven months old and he’s an amazingly cuddly dog that’s fun and challanging to train. A part from foundation training for future important gun dog behaviours we’ve also worked on just hanging around in our every day life. One thing that is important to me is that I want to be able […]
Both Elsa and I train our puppies from the moment they move in with us. Since the puppy is like a clean slate, we want to be there from the beginning and teach her the right things. Puppies are resourceful and learn all the time – no matter if we teach them what they should […]
You might think that I only train delivery to hand considering how many of my blog spots focuses on that behavior. Well, I obviously train a lot of different things, but I put a lot of effort into the training of delivery to hand. So here’s a short film about delivery to hand at a […]
The “Switching Game” – One of the Best Games for Your Dog This game is a favorite of mine. It is a very good basic exercise for the gun dog training as well as a great exercise for puppies, but it can be trained with any dog, regardless of age. It’s a game – of […]
Play tug of war and get a better delivery to hand
Diesel If you have read this blog a couple of times or our book “Retrieving for All Occasions” it shouldn’t be a surprise that we like to teach our dogs things through play. I like to play with my dogs for several reasons. It is, of course, another form of reward that...
Can it be too easy?
When Tassla was a puppy I didn’t know that much about hunting with spaniels. I did a lot of obedience training at that time, but I had started to get an interest in hunting. However, I didn´t now what kind of qualifications or basic skills a hunting dog should have....
Husbandry: Giving the dog choice and control
Flippa suddenly got an abscess on her nose, full of pus and discharge. Our guess is that she got stuck on something and that the wound was then unfortunately badly infected. At first, with the help of a friend, I tried to get pus out of the abscess and clean it, but...
Train one thing at a time
I continue my journey through the archives and found this training session with Tassla when she was quite young. The other day I was out in the meadow training with Tassla. I placed Tassla on her pause station, a blanket by my backpack, walked out a bit and threw...
Can something simply be too easy?
When Tassla was a puppy, I didn’t know much about hunting with a spaniel. I was completely wrapped up in competitive obedience with a growing interest in hunting, but I had no idea of which qualities or foundation skills I wanted in a hunting dog. However, Tassla was...
The first month with my puppy – what have we done?
The first month with Flippa has, of course, mostly been about bonding, cozying up, getting to know each other and finding good routines for everyday life. I have also carefully studied her to understand who she is and how she works – it is, after all, a very fun time...
Flippa’s first week
From the beginning, there was a puppy that stood out a little extra in all the videos the breeder posted in our little puppy group on Facebook. It was the brown with white paws.It was first to walk, first to get outside the puppy pen, first to find the stairs and...
Resource guarding #ThrowBackThursday
Resource guarding is very common, especially for puppies. We have to teach them that they can trust us and give up their treasures to us. If we punish them when they growl we teach them the opposite - they can't trust us. In the blog post below you can read how I...
Delivery to hand with a puppy #ThrowBackThursday
When we teach our dogs delivery to hand we follow a certain structure - play to take the object, reversed luring, handtarget, handtarget with object and reversed luring and finally sitting and presenting the object. Then we move back and forth between the different...
Delivery to hand with distractions – #ThrowBackThrusday
What's more fun than puppy training? In the blog post below you'll see a lovely video of Lena training Tassla as a puppy - with a great helper in the kid who lives next door <3 #ThrowBackThursday https://www.retrievingforalloccasions.com/delivery-hand-distractions/...
Is it okay to train a puppy? – #ThrowBackThursday
Something we get a lot of questions about is when to start training your puppy - we say right away! Digging through the archives we found the blog post below that discusses just that - enjoy! #ThrowBackThursday...
Qulan on another journey
Sometimes I get the question what I think is the most important to train with my puppy. Like, where should one start? I usually answer: "Start by observing your puppy." By studying how your puppy acts in a number of situations you will learn a lot about it. Certainly,...
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...
Is it Okay to Train a Puppy?
Both Elsa and I train our puppies from the moment they move in with us. Since the puppy is like a clean slate, we want to be there from the beginning and teach her the right things. Puppies are resourceful and learn all the time – no matter if we teach them what they...
Singing the praise of the switching game
The switching game is one of our favorite games. We use it to train everything from taking and holding to the full retrieve. Sometimes it can be a bit difficult to show and explain the game – particularly when we don’t have our own dogs with us – so when we were...
When One Hits the Breaks But Should Be Going All In
When Quling w as five months old, he discovered the meaning of life. Over night, this very energetic and pretty wild puppy that I still walked around our neighbourhood off leash, turned into a complete hunting maniac. Suddenly, having him off leash was completely out...
The fun art of keeping yourself together
Let me just give you a great piece of advice for your training: Reversed luring. I don’t know how people train without it, I really don’t J I use reversed luring in two ways: In order to help the dog learn to control itself (which is a dreadfully important skill when...
Tod’s first ”mock cold game trial”
A couple of months ago I published a blog post with a nice video of preparatory competitive training from two years ago when Seeker was just 20 weeks. After Seeker had entered his first little mock trial, it was Tod’s turn. Below Tod’s owner Åsa will tell you about...
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