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: January 2010
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Last weekend kicked off the first “cluster” of dogs shows for the new year. In our area, they begin at the Puyallup fairgrounds in mid-January, and then during the following weekend move down to Portland for 4 days of shows. Because these two weekends cluster several days of shows, many professional handlers and big-name dogs come…
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For the last several months, it’s been our Sunday morning ritual to attend handling classes. Handling classes provide a training environment for us to practice the game of the conformation ring, where the dog is judged on his structure (conformation) and movement. Here’s the ritual: 7:30 am: Reardon gets a feathering bath. He needs one once-a-week anyway for…
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New Years’s Day was a perfect day to spend with a training buddy of mine, Terri Pope. We rented an obedience building in Olympia for a few hours and helped each other with our dogs. Today I wanted to see how Reardon’s heeling was coming along, so we made a video. Videos help immensely with seeing the…
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