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: April 2010
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Rozzie happily surprised me today by being the star of the rally match held in Auburn, WA. I took all three dogs, as I’m hoping both Rozzie and Reardon will be ready to compete in rally obedience by our National in October. (Rally is an obedience competition where the dog and handler team perform exercises…
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The first week of a new school quarter really slowed my blogging down. I’m catching up with some photos of a wonderful Thursday during spring break spent visiting a local retriever trainer who is the choice of many Irish Water Spaniel folk: Andy Fontenot of Waterdog Kennels. He is respected for his patience and understanding of the…