Training on your walks

Some days it feels like a huge project to get out and train with your dog. Bags to pack, treats to chop, bring out water bottles, boots and all the other stuff and load it into the car. Phew. Those days training on your walks is great; we always need to exercise the dog – so why not train the dog at the same time? With a toy, done treats and sometimes a dummy you’ll get far. In this section you can read all our blog posts about how we use our walks for foundation gun dog training, heeling, marked retrieves, hunting an area and blind retrieves in our walks.

Training on your walks #FTW

by Elsa Blomster | Apr 15, 2019 | Blind retrieves, Heelwork, Holding an Area, Marked retrieves, Stop whistle, Training on your walks | 0 comments

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...

When One Hits the Breaks But Should Be Going All In

by Lena Gunnarsson | Feb 7, 2018 | Puppy training, Recall, Spaniel work, Training on your walks | 0 comments

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...

Training on your walks – hunting

by Lena Gunnarsson | Nov 30, 2016 | Hunting and quartering, Training on your walks | 0 comments

I want to be the sun in my dog’s life I often say that I want to be the sun in my dog’s life. All good things should come from me, and through me the dog gets access to what she wants or what she wants to do. It should always pay off to listen to me. We must, of...

Calm heeling

by Lena Gunnarsson | Jun 9, 2015 | Heelwork, Training on your walks | 8 comments

When I began to work on gun dog heeling with Totte, I had been working on his heeling for obedience for two years. That training wasn’t going that well. Totte has always had a tendency to make noise and we weren’t getting anywhere because he was vocalizing. I have...

Training on your walks: stop whistle

by Lena Gunnarsson | Nov 26, 2013 | Stop whistle, Training on your walks | 0 comments

We’ve just found a translator to help us a bit with the blog, so here’s a blog post that brings back summer memories! Oh, how I love these long, bright early summer evenings, when you´re able to walk your dog almost in the middle of the night. Tonight,...