by Lena Gunnarsson | Nov 25, 2019 | Classes, Delivery to hand, Play, Recall, Steadiness, Stop whistle, Taking and holding |
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...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Nov 24, 2019 | Steadiness, Stop whistle |
We have come to the last challenge! It has been great to follow your training! If you have a spaniel or a retriever, you probably can’t devote too much time at working on the dog showing steadiness in the sit, and for quite some time. The retriever mostly sits...
by Elsa Blomster | Jul 25, 2019 | #ThrowBackThursday, Stop whistle |
Today’s #ThrowBackThursday blog post is about getting the dog to stop at a distance from the handler. Enjoy! Working at a Distance from the Handler Retrieving for All Occasions - Foundations for Excellence in Gun Dog TrainingShare...
by Åsa Davidsson | Jul 16, 2019 | Stop whistle |
This week’s blog post is a guest post from our colleage Åsa, from when her working labrador Tod was a young. Here is the continuation of my description of last week’s training session – working on the stop whistle. After having worked on heeling, Tod got...
by Lena Gunnarsson | May 1, 2019 | Spaniel work, Steadiness, Steadiness to wing, Stop whistle |
Train, prevent, interrupt. It’s a good motto that I like to bring into my training. I train to teach the dog what I want him to do; I prevent the dog from making mistakes or rehearsing behaviors that are counterproductive to what I want; I make sure to interrupt...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 23, 2019 | Hunting and quartering, Spaniel work, Steadiness, Steadiness to wing, Stop whistle |
Filled with belief in the future, self-confidence and gung ho, all ready to take the next step, I returned to Tomas at Knektagården for another visit to Flush school. It had been 2-3 weeks since our last visit. It was time to add a flushing to the hunting. Considering...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 16, 2019 | Spaniel work, Steadiness, Steadiness to wing, Stop whistle |
Here’s the second part of when Quling went to Flush school last year. The first part can be found here. Quling has been to school again 🙂 Quite a bit of time passed between the first and second time (a month) so I thought we might have to start over from the...
by Elsa Blomster | Apr 15, 2019 | Blind retrieves, Heelwork, Holding an Area, Marked retrieves, Stop whistle, Training on your walks |
My students often wonder how much and when to train. I usually share my super tip: training on your walks! Occasionally, I’ll do short training sessions indoors, train with friends for a few hours, attend a seminar or join a hunt for a full day. Although we work...
by Lena Gunnarsson | Apr 10, 2019 | Spaniel work, Steadiness, Steadiness to wing, Stop whistle |
A year ago Quling started Flush school and now I’ll tell you how it went! This means that we have gone from the simplest basics of working on the flush (for example throwing stuff) to him sitting down when a bird flushes. I have Tomas Lindh at Knektagården and...
by Elsa Blomster | Mar 12, 2019 | Delivery to hand, Heelwork, Steadiness, Stop whistle |
Now Keen has lived with me a couple of months and he has adapted very well to his new pack. There are both advantages and disadvantages to taking over an adult dog / young dog compared to getting a puppy, but with Keen the benefits have really been greater than the...