The Spaniel Annals
working and living with performance spaniels
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I’m a retired English instructor, now devoted full-time to training, showing and enjoying my spaniels in many sports.
- agility
- Behavior
- competition
- conditioning
- dockdiving
- dual champion
- English Cocker
- English Springer Spaniel
- Fetch!
- field work
- Freestyle
- Gordon Setters
- heeling
- heeling journal
- Irish Water Spaniel
- match
- mental preparation
- new freestyle behaviors
- puppy training
- rally obedience
- retrieve
- scent work
- TEAM
- tracking
- training
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- Utility obedience
Month: November 2009
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“Exuberance is beauty” – William Blake Right now I’m recuperating from surgery and don’t feel well enough to do anything with the dogs other than walk out to the pasture with them. They still give me great delight in their ability to play.. and their effortless grace while in full extension… and the joy they seem…
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Sunday as the rain poured, we worked under the patio roof on details: Fronts with Kani holding a retrieve object, a leather scent article… Finishes (where the dog moves from front to heel position) with Reardon… and holding the dumbbell with Roz… The challenge with drill work like this is keeping it fun and light. That means knowing how…
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Yesterday was a day off from training, so instead we went for a run around our neighborhood for some conditioning work. As I’ve read equestrian writers during the past few years, I’ve become more and more convinced of the importance of proper conditioning for the dog sports we do. While some agility trainers seem to understand its…
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Last night after my day of teaching, the springers and I headed to our local outlet mall for some attention training on their heeling. I try to vary what we do each day, so none of us gets bored. Other nights we might be doing full run-throughs of Kani’s exercises for the obedience ring, or working on details of…
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