Recall
Recall training is very important for all dogs. A good recall is a life line for your dog, and something that enables it to get more and more freedom. Using clicker training to teach and train the recall is very efficient and fun. In our recall training, we focus on what we want the dog to do (keeping an eye on us, staying close to us on walks, coming back to us when something unexpected happens and coming to us when being called) and reward the dog a lot for that. We never stop rewarding our dogs for the recall since it is so important. However, we do vary the rewards a lot so that the dog doesn’t know what will happen – only that something fun will happen when it comes to us. Here you will find all our blog posts on recall training.
Total Recall
Do you recognize this: https://youtu.be/TtMGIRtpVwY Would you rather recognize this? https://youtu.be/RIEN66zNvfM Recall is both fun and sometimes difficult – we also want to claim that it is vital. If our dogs are easy to recall we can give them more freedom. Our...
And when the weather’s still bad …
It was such great fun having you all take part in the indoor training from the seven blog posts about "Things to train when the weather is bad", that we wanted to give you some kind of bonus. 🙂 Elsa and I have decided to give a 25% discount on all our online courses...
The recall – the road to freedom
Since the quite cataclysmic Finnish debacle this winter when Quling "did" Finland by hunting and disappearing into the Finnish forests, flushing pheasant after pheasant, hunting like a maniac for 15 minutes completely out of my control, I've mostly worked on our...
By popular demand: recall training #ThrowBackThursday
One of the most important things to teach your dog is the recall. The better the recall the more freedom the dog can get. Here's one of our previous blog posts on how we teach the dog the recall cue (and whistle) #ThrowBackThursday...
The vital recall
The better the recall my dog has, the more freedom I can give it. It is an old truth that most of us know. But truthfully, how good is your recall really? Are you like us and love giving your dog great freedom and watching it run loose across fields and meadows? We have […]
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,...
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...
Recall – Vital for All Dogs
You asked - we answered. Almost a year ago we started our free online course, "Five Simple Steps to Master the Perfect Retrieve". Since then more than 400 persons have attended the course. In the course evaluation we asked about what people wanted to learn the most...
By popular demand: recall training
We received an e-mail asking us to write something about recall training, so here are our thoughts on recall. Recall is something where I believe one should focus on several different aspects at the same time. I teach the dog to: 1. Keep an eye on ME when off leash2....
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Online course: Recall according to Retrieving for All Occasions – with personal feedback