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 […]
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...
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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/...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Seeker’s first ”mock cold game trial”
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 dogs...
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Quling – A Year Old and Still a Puppy
”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...
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Go on, let go! – Developing the Switching Game
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...
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Delivery to Hand with Distractions
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...
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Play to Inspire Delivery to Hand
I have had – and still have – a very good use of the Switching Game when I train obedience with my dog Tassla. She is now doing obedience training on the elite level (FCI class III), and there is more retrieving at this level than at the others. We – all the obedience...
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Expectations and Contact
The other day I discovered that my dog Tassla has very high expectations to retrieve when I throw something. It is, of course, great to have a dog that loves to retrieve, but sometimes it can be a little too much. It is important to find the golden mean; the dog...
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Teach the puppy taking, holding and releasing
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 course...
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To sit when a bird flies up – without the whistle
When my dog Tassla was about five months old she was like a sponge; she learned everything incredibly fast and it was very easy for her to understand what I wanted her to do. Already at that time Tassla had a solid ground to stand on as I had done a lot of basic...
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Online course: Hello, who is this then? – with personal feedback
Tydligt upplagd i steg för steg. Jag och min hund (som kastade apporten samt inte kunde sätta sig ner med den i munnen) fick till fina avlämningar på bara ett par dagar! Otroligt!
Tess