Delivery to hand
The Great Delivery Challenge part 2
The sharp-eyed have noticed that we’ve had many posts about retrievals. It’s to meet the demand, you could say. 😉 As we’ve mentioned before, many
September 29, 2023
Delivery to hand
Delivery to hand is a central part of our training and something we spend a lot of time training. Our definition of delivery to hand is not just the moment when the dog leaves the object in our hand, but rather from the moment the dog picks up the object, turns around, runs straight towards us. The last thing that happens in the delivery process is that the dog releases the object in our hand. In the book there’s an entire chapter about how to teach delivery to hand using clicker training where we describe how to tackle different challenges with your deliveries and how you can vary the distractions to proof your delivery to hand. In this section you can read all blog posts we’ve written about delivery to hand.
Good luck with your training!
//Elsa & Lena at Retrieving for All Occasions
Blind retrieves
3 months with Vide – what have we done?
It has been a little over three months since the working cocker spaniel Vide moved in with us, and he is now just over eight
April 5, 2023
Delivery to hand
Play tug of war and get a better delivery to hand
If you have read this blog a couple of times or our book “Retrieving for All Occasions” it shouldn’t be a surprise that we like
April 5, 2020
Classes
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
November 25, 2019
Delivery to hand
7 things to work on when the weather is bad! Day 1: Delivery to hand
Welcome to 7 days of ideas for things to train when the weather is bad. Join us and have fun training! Today’s topic is deliveries.
November 18, 2019
#ThrowBackThursday
The Great Delivery Challenge #ThrowBackThursday
By far the most common thing that we work on with our students is delivery to hand. A lot of dogs like to pick things
July 11, 2019
#ThrowBackThursday
Come to me to play! #ThrowBackThursday
One of our favorite games is “Come to me to play”. Together with the handtarget we use this game to teach the dog to come
May 23, 2019
#ThrowBackThursday
When the hold isn’t good enough #ThrowBackThursday
Most spaniels and retrievers love to carry objects and do it almost endlessly. However, quite a few of them actually doesn’t hold the object very
May 9, 2019
#ThrowBackThursday
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
May 2, 2019
#ThrowBackThursday
Delivery to hand with a puppy #ThrowBackThursday
When we teach our dogs delivery to hand we follow a certain structure – play to take the object, reversed luring, handtarget, handtarget with object
April 18, 2019
#ThrowBackThursday
Teaching the puppy taking, holding and releasing #ThrowBackThursday
We love the switching game! With it you can teach your dog the whole retrieve – taking, holding, bringing it back and releaseing. In the
April 4, 2019
#ThrowBackThursday
Delivery to hand with distractions – #ThrowBackThrusday
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
March 21, 2019
Delivery to hand
Getting to know Keen
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
March 12, 2019
Delivery to hand
Say hello to Miklaus Brie!
When it is impossible to get another dog, but you still want to plan a little for the future, you have to be creative. I
March 8, 2019
Classes
Webinar: Reliable Behaviors
Will your dog pick the dummy over the hamburger? No? Most other dogs wouldn’t either – but with the right training you can
October 16, 2018
Delivery to hand
From black and white to a scale of grey
About a year ago, I decided to basically have one single focus when training with Quling: to get a better cooperation. The time before this
August 15, 2018
Delivery to hand
When The Hold Isn’t Good Enough
A while ago I had a project with Tassla. The goal wass to improve her hold. She’s always had a leaning towards a somewhat loose
June 16, 2018
Delivery to hand
When almost everything comes together, but yet not…
What a day! I’m emotionally drained. That handling a Spaniel can be this exhausting! But today, Tassla and I had our best trial so far!
May 23, 2018
