The you can’t play tug with a gun dog myth #ThrowBackThursday
Not tugging with your gun dog is one of the hardest myths to kill. In the blog post below you can see how we do
On the blog we write about the book, clicker training and our thoughts about gun dog retrieving and field trial training.
Not tugging with your gun dog is one of the hardest myths to kill. In the blog post below you can see how we do
Would you like to improve your heelwork? Do you want to teach your dog to love walking by your side and walk to heel even
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
A lot of people say that you can’t have treats near by when the dog is retrieving because then it will just let go of
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
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
When we teach our dogs delivery to hand we follow a certain structure – play to take the object, reversed luring, handtarget, handtarget with object
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
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
Slip leads are very convenient – collar and leash combined and they take up almost no space when you put it in your pocket. However,
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
We’re often asked how we train multiple dogs at the same time – turn on your speakers and listen to the video below and Lena
We love the switching game! With it you can teach your dog the whole retrieve – taking, holding, bringing it back and releaseing. In the
When we translated our book into English, we didn’t think it would be so difficult to spread it and our training methods as it has
We are very verbal creatures, unlike dogs who find body language much easier to understand. This means that we as handlers sometimes overestimate what our
A couple of years ago we made an interview with Helen Phillips, and it’s too good just to be forgotten so you can read it
Last weekend we were at a working test for retrievers in Skåne, Koholma Open, arranged by LineUp Gundogs. Spaniels were allowed to participate too, so
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
Mock trials are something that we really like because they give us so much information on where we stand in our training – what works
Quling is a dog that has proven to be what you traditionally call “a soft dog”. By that I mean a dog that for example