My name is Fanny Gott. I am a professional dog trainer with a passion for clicker training and dog sports. I live with my husband Thomas and our six dogs in Fjugesta, outside Örebro in Sweden.
I started training and trialing with dogs well over 10 years ago. My first dog was a male cairn terrier, born in July 1991. He was trained in obedience, agility, flyball and tracking. We attended some trials, but were not very successfull. My first border collie came in to my house eleven years ago. Her name is Twiggy and she now lives with my parents. We competed quite successfully in obedience: She was OTCH and qualified for a few national championships. We did also compete in agility, freestyle and tracking. Twiggy was initially trained with positive methods that included a lot of luring, but started clicker training as an adult.
I now work with four dogs that are all trained within our definition of clicker training. Border collie Missy was born in 2004 and is closely related to my older border collie, but they are nothing like each other. Missy has had some issues with gunshot and other sharp noises, reactiveness to people and other dogs and other issues with insecurity. She is much better now and is a highly loved family member, that also does well at trials. She competes at the highest level in FCI obedience and qualified for the Norwegian Championships final in 2008 and has got an OTCH. She has also won the only tracking trial she has entered, shown off her freestyle skills on national television and done a few trials in agility, where she has earned one leg in jumpers.
Shejpa is a field bred english cocker spaniel born in 2006. She is the only dog that I ever owned that I don’t do obedience with. She is trained for field work and agility. Shejpa and I have worked a lot with Susan Garrett the last couple of years and she has entered a few agility trials with good results. Shejpa got her Agility Trial Championship and qualified for Swedish Nationals in 2009. I have also trained my husbands english setter, Pi, in obedience. She did one trial at 11 months, where she qualified for the next level.
My youngest dog is a border collie named Squid, born in September of 2008. Her real name is Emenems Lunachick and I have picked her because I hope that she will be a great herding dog. I will do a lot of herding with her, but also agility, obedience and working trials (search and rescue). She comes with new challenges for me, but I like her soft, friendly style a lot!
Thomas works as a dog trainer with me and is also working on his masters degree in ethology (the study of animal behavior) this year. Thomas has worked with dalmatians and a rottweiler before, but his current dogs are german pointer Pax, 5 years old, english setter Pi, 2 years old and working cocker Pogue, 1 year old. Pax and Pi does mostly hunting, while Pogue is Thomas’ new star in obedience, search and rescue, and agility.
Both of us started out as clicker trainers with Morten and Cecilie of Canis. Since then, we have evolved our own style of training, heavily influenced by both Canis and Susan Garrett of Say Yes Dog Training in Canada. We run our own dog training school where we specialize in clicker training for dog sports. We offer classes in obedience and agility at home and are often invited to clubs and schools around Sweden and Norway to teach clicker training.
You can contact me at fanny@klickerklok.se