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 Elsa Blomster | Apr 18, 2018 | Delivery to hand, Heelwork, Steadiness |
I claim that one can pass a novice cold game trial in Sweden through working on deliveries, steadiness and heeling (providing, naturally, that the dog is interested in hunting and will pick up game). I constantly go back to those basics, both in my own training and...
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 Lena Gunnarsson | Aug 23, 2017 | Puppy training, Steadiness, Steadiness to wing, Stop whistle |
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...
by Elsa Blomster | Sep 12, 2016 | Field trials, Steadiness |
All hunting trials and working tests include greeting the judge and/or the shooter. Often the dogs learn to associate trials and competitions with something that is really funny – which means that the dogs’ expectations might be very high and that the dog might find...
by Lena Gunnarsson | May 20, 2016 | Puppy training, Steadiness, Stop 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...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 29, 2016 | Steadiness, Stop whistle |
My dog Tassla and I took a little longer break from the gun dog training and now I try to remind her of all the things we did before the break. I always find it very interesting to find out what happens when we take a break in the training. In my experience many...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jan 12, 2016 | Calmness training, Steadiness |
Self-control through reversed luring One of the foundations of the clicker philosophy is to that the dog should learn to think by itself, especially in the learning phase. We want the dog to figure out how to do different things, solve different problems our figure...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Jan 7, 2016 | Steadiness, Stop whistle |
In a previous post on steadiness, Sit, sit, sit, I talk about the importance of the dog being able to sit and remain sitting in various situations (no matter if it’s a spaniel or retriever – and if you don’t want your retriever to sit on the stop...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Feb 10, 2014 | Puppy training, Steadiness |
Tassla has acquired a new interest, in line with her heritage ;), namely birds. In the garden she has discovered that it’s really fun to run after them at full speed because they of course fly away… Thankfully we don’t have that many birds on our...
