by Lena Gunnarsson | Oct 19, 2018 | Focus, Play, Puppy training, Recall, Rewards |
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...
by Lena Gunnarsson | May 2, 2018 | Blind retrieves, Classes, Delivery to hand, Heelwork, Holding an Area, Marked retrieves, Play, Puppy training, Retriever work, Rewards, Spaniel work, Steadiness, Taking and holding |
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...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 11, 2018 | Puppy training |
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...
by Elsa Blomster | Feb 28, 2018 | Delivery to hand, Puppy training |
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...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Feb 7, 2018 | Puppy training, Recall, Spaniel work, Training on your walks |
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...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jan 31, 2018 | Focus, Puppy training, Rewards, Steadiness, Taking and holding |
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...
by Åsa Davidsson | Jan 10, 2018 | Puppy training |
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...
by Elsa Blomster | Dec 6, 2017 | Puppy training |
I found a nice video of preparatory competitive training from two years ago when Seeker was just 20 weeks old and thought I’d share it with you. We went to the beautiful Sjöön for a mock cold game trial. 4 dogs in open, 7 in beginners and this year we also had 2...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Nov 22, 2017 | Puppy training |
”The puppy” turned one year old a while ago! Hunterfull Quling has been a part of my pack since the beginning of June last year and it’s been an interesting, demanding and fun year, all in one. I wanted a very different dog from Tassla. Not that there’s something...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Nov 7, 2017 | Classes, Delivery to hand, Play, Puppy training, Taking and holding |
We’ve just started another round of our online course on the foundation skills of the retrieve. In one of the first lessons, we of course introduce our favourite game, ”the switching game”, and how you can begin, proceed and really get into the retrieve with just this...