Testimonials

I truly enjoy your lessons.  I have an 8 year old Flat that works nicely at the Open level here in Germany and we have 2 groups where we regularly train, but my new Flat is particularly talented in dummy work and I unfortunately don't have anyone to work with at her level at the moment.  I know the end result, but I've forgotten how one gets there, so your videos have been really helpful in guiding her along...

Thank you very much!

With the first exercice, Timi and Ejlin do not change/ shop dummies anymore. Which allow me to train them now with several dummies, lines etc. Progress are just impressive and I am really happy. It’s just great to be able to move forward again in our training!

I really look forward to test my dogs with the liability of your new exercice.

I tried too the other versions you proposed  to help improve Timi’s delivery. Timi, after one training, opted itself for the less pressure approach (heal position). Proper delivery is still not perfect, but again, some improvement is shown which is very satisfying. 

I also noticed, that at the end of the training, he is sometime able to give me straight away well the dummy. 

If I don’t train him every day, I observed too that its excitation could be part of the reasons, it is more difficult for him to let the dummy go out of his mouth. 

So I learn, that I have to train Timi every day. Or, really not let him many days without training anymore.  He is such a high drive dog and he loves retrieve so incredibly much!

Again, thank you Rita and Blackthorn Academy team.

I am so very very happy with your Academy – there are so many things I did too fast and that did not work (and I did not know that they did not work)

So even if my bitch is 3,5 I start with puppy exercises and the very beginning.

I also know now, that I made too many different exercises through one training lesson so that my dog was confused and did not understand what I wanted her to do. When starting with dummy training 2 years ago we worked with “Leckerli” but now no “Leckerli” is needed any more and we are getting a team.

Sometimes I make some videos with my handycam to see my dogs progress in training.

Changing my role to a Subsciption enrollement is no problem, because I have written the comments in my trainingsdiary till now and that highlighted texts and notes I made inside the school page were only the test how to work with this tool.

Maria