I haven’t written much about our trainings in the last months because, to be honest, I struggled with Tadaas motivation. I haven’t found out yet what really drives her. Tadaa is the most settled dog I ever had. Nothing gets her scared, she is open and friendly with everyone and has no problems being and…
Nullam porta nulla non arcu tempus.
I start playing and training new tricks at safe and known places with my puppy with as little distractions as possible. That helps the puppy to learn things faster. But after some training sessions it’s time to test playing and some learned things at new places. To generalize training is important to me, and new…
There are different ways to reward your dog. Playing, treat with food, treat with voice or treat with physical contacts. Not every dog is into all of it and not everything has the same value. Halli is a really good player, but when he was young he wasn’t into food. Tadaa is much into food…
Making a training board isn’t really hard and not expensive. Here is another diy-tipp from me. I bought a shelf which is 300 wide. (how long is depending on dogs size), a yoga matt and furniture pads. I already have a small balance pad from before. So I cutted the yoga matt in the same…
Three years ago my little surprise was born. I wasn’t sure if I would have a puppy until this day, I remember it like yesterday. When Jan Egil showed her picture to our friends and said „This will be our new dog“. Tvitvi was my first small dog and my first Papillon. I fell in…
In general we read and discuss a lot how and when we should start Agility with our dogs. When it’s healthy to put that kind of pressure on a young dogs body. If you ask 50 persons about that topic I guess you will get 45 different answers. But shouldn’t we ask ourselves when and…
Jan Egil was going to be judging in Denmark two weeks after Halli would be old enough to compete, and my plan was longer to try if we can be ready for at least competing in jumping. We entered anyway both, agility and jumping. I took the chance to train the competition set-up and see…
Teaching focus is fundamental in dog training. Sometimes we need our dogs to focus on us, which is quite easy to achieve with calling them. But in some cases we want them to focus away from us. We want a dog who is focused on obstacles and understands it’s task. Something we teach our puppies…
Since Halli wasn’t much into food or treats when he was a puppy I had to try something else. This is a recipe for easy dog treats I got from a friend I would like to share. What you need:2 packages grounded chicken2 eggs2dl potato starch2dl oats1,5 dl water Mix all ingredients together in a…
