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 2011
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, Journey the Irish Water Spaniel, is happily back with us for additional obedience training. I’m stunned to report that she has learned her scent discrimination articles in slightly over one month. Journey arrived here in early December; she’s now at the stage where she is selecting the article…
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To you, a tennis ball might be a lowly object, a cheap amalgamation of rubber and fuzz, easily substituted by an exact replica and easily discarded. But to me, a tennis ball keeps chaos at bay. A house without a tennis ball is a house with a raging Gordon Setter puppy mouth, happy to fill…
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